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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary supports Elon Musk's plan to gut government spending by $2 trillion with Trump's blessing—'release the hounds'

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'Shark Tank' star Kevin O’Leary is enthusiastically backing Elon Musk’s plan to cut $2 trillion from federal spending—and in fact, he thinks the cuts should be even higher.

If former president Donald Trump wins a second term, he has pledged to appoint Musk as head of a new Department of Government Efficiency that would enact major cuts to federal agencies. And during an interview with Fox News, the so-called “Mr. Wonderful” said Musk should “release the hounds” on government spending. 

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