'Elon Musk is right,' Bernie Sanders admits, agreeing the defense budget needs to be cut because the Pentagon has 'lost track of billions'

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An unlikely duo has emerged at the intersection of business and politics: Elon Musk and Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Vermont independent, who caucuses with the Democratic Party, on Sunday posted on X he thinks Musk has something right about the U.S. budget.

“Elon Musk is right,” Sanders said in an X post on Dec. 1. “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.”