‘Something has got to give’: Elon Musk calls record-high national debt unsustainable

Published February 14, 2022 10:15am ET



Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, said Thursday that the record-high $30 trillion national debt is unsustainable.

Musk responded to a headline from the Babylon Bee that read “Biden Goes Double Or Nothing On National Debt By Placing $30 Trillion On The Bengals” by arguing that there is nothing comical about the debt growing under President Joe Biden.

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