Elon Musk Says the Federal Government Spent $1 Billion on a Survey that Would Have Cost $10,000 on SurveyMonkey

‘There was literally a 10-question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey for $10,000 that the government was charged almost a billion dollars for’

Mar 28, 2025 3:30 PM

By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

MUSK: "The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government. It is astonishing. It’s mind-blowing. Just — we routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more, casually. For example, like, the simple survey that was literally 10 questions survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey cost you about $10,000 where — the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that."

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