Elon Musk, the maverick billionaire and advocate for cutting government waste, has unveiled a shocking financial fiasco lurking within our federal offices.
In a candid conversation on Senator Ted Cruz’s Verdict podcast, Musk shared details about what he terms “magic money computers.”
In this riveting interview, Musk described these government computers as capable of conjuring vast sums of money seemingly out of thin air—operating without any unified network oversight.
According to Musk, 14 of these mysterious machines have been identified within various governmental entities, majorly at the Treasury Department, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the State Department.
These revelations from Musk paint a picture of federal spending that is far more erratic and uncontrolled than the American public is led to believe. With these “magic money computers” functioning independently, it seems that government departments are making grandiose payments that don’t align with the reports presented to Congress or the American taxpayers.
Ted Cruz: Now, one of the things you told me about is what you called Magic Money Computers at the Treasury. Tell us about it because I had never heard of that until you brought it up.
Elon Musk: Okay, so you may think that the government computers all talk to each other, synchronize, add up what funds are going where, and that it’s coherent. And that the numbers, for example, that you’re presented as a senator are actually the real numbers.
Ted Cruz: One would think.
Elon Musk: One would think. They’re not.
Ted Cruz: Yeah.
Elon Musk: They’re not totally wrong, but they’re probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases. I call a magic money computer any computer that can just make money out of thin air. Best magic money.
Ted Cruz: How does that work?
Elon Musk: It just issues payments.
Ted Cruz: You said there’s something like 11 of these computers at Treasury that are sending out trillions in payments?
Elon Musk: They’re mostly at Treasury. Some are at HHS, some at… there’s one at State, some at DOD. I think we’ve found 14 magic money computers now.
Ted Cruz: Fourteen, okay.
Elon Musk: They just send money out of nothing.
WATCH: An absolute bombshell from @elonmusk on the latest episode of Verdict.
He reveals there are 14 magic money computers in the federal government that send money out of nothing.
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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)
March 17, 2025
