Last week, Elon Musk’s America PAC tweeted a semi-comprehensive list of what the social media mogul held to be wasteful federal spending in 2023. Sadly, it illuminated only one thing, which is that Musk fundamentally misunderstands the federal government. Nearly all of the approximately $900 billion total was caught up in two line items. A significant chunk was $659 billion in interest payments on the national debt, the nonpayment of which would generate an epic international financial crisis.