On December 17, US House Speaker Johnson submitted a US$380 billion emergency budget, which was 1,547 pages long and only allowed 17 hours of review time.

If the House of Representatives fails to pass it, the U.S. government will shut down.

If the House passes it, it passes and everything in it will be legally appropriated.

Of course, if you think any of the allocations are unreasonable, you can point them out before the vote is passed and submit a new budget that you think is reasonable.

Why does the budget have to be so long at 1547 pages? That’s because the taxpayers have to be given an explanation for how these 380 billion US dollars were spent. Isn’t it money if they are millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars? How each hundreds of thousands of dollars was spent must be written down, and the reasons, etc., and the writing must be professional, that is, obscure and difficult to understand.

According to historical rules, no human being can understand what is written in this 1,547-page budget within 17 hours, and it is even more impossible to point out the unreasonableness and modify it.

But not being able to tell a reason is not a reason to reject this emergency budget, because if you can't tell a reason, you can't submit a more reasonable new budget, and then you refuse without thinking, then the U.S. government will shut down. How long will you refuse? No matter how long it lasts, the responsibility is entirely yours.

Therefore, historically these emergency budgets submitted at the last minute will be passed with minimal modifications.

But this time, the "DOGE" led by Musk used AI technology to feed official "professional" materials to AI intelligence, quickly translating those obscure materials into human language.

Instead of spending 17 hours or even 17 minutes, the intelligent AI quickly found out the unreasonable points in the 1,547 pages of budget materials and cut them all, and then automatically generated a 116-page streamlined version of the budget.

According to FOX TV political commentator Jesse Waters, the budget cuts include but are not limited to:

- $850,000 allocated for gay nursing homes

- $15 million allocated to pay Egyptians’ college tuition

- $400,000 for gay activist group to teach elementary school students about transgender issues

- $500,000 allocated for DEl Zoo

- $400,000 in grants to groups that provide clothing to teenagers to help them hide their gender.

- Provisions such as a 40% salary increase for legislators and increased health insurance for congressmen.

Before the final vote, Musk submitted this 116-page streamlined budget, kicking the ball back to the House of Representatives.

If you don't pass, the U.S. government will shut down.

If you think it is missing, then you can come up with it one by one and tell us which budgets should be added, and we will review them publicly one by one.

On December 19, the voting officially began, and the 116-page budget streamlined by AI was not surprisingly rejected.

If the budget is vetoed, no appropriation will be made, and the entire responsibility for the shutdown of the U.S. government will lie with the opposition members.

If you think the budget has been cut unreasonably, you can talk about it.

So they urgently negotiated and added the budget that had been unreasonably cut by AI.

On the night of December 20, the third version of the budget bill was passed by the House of Representatives, allowing the US government to operate smoothly.

This final version of the budget is only 118 pages, which is only 2 pages more than the second version of the budget submitted by Musk, and 1,429 pages less than the initial version.

The proportion of reduced pages does not represent the proportion of reduced money, but reducing so much content will inevitably reduce something. The 1,429 pages that were cut cannot be all punctuation marks.

In this round of fighting, Musk won, using advanced AI productivity to beat up the corrupt and backward civil servants of the United States.

This kind of AI technology is not difficult, and it is not the first of its kind by Musk. In fact, an American celebrity has done a similar program on the Internet before, and reduced the 1,547-page budget bill of the United States to 10 pages. The creativity of the American celebrity has just been implemented in the House of Representatives by Musk.

But for the group of congressmen of the House of Representatives, this wave was caught off guard. No one had done this before, and they passed Musk's budget with their noses pinched.

Including personal goods in emergency budgets is a rule in American politics, and it is a rule passed down through history. The method can even be traced back to British politics.

In the TV series "Yes, Prime Minister" filmed in the UK, the budget proposal submitted by Financial Secretary Frank to Prime Minister Huck is also over a thousand pages long, but the content is mostly vague, and the core part can be expressed clearly on an A4 sheet of paper.

The purpose of doing this is to hide what you want most in a large number of files so that others cannot easily find it.

The national budget cannot refuse to be reviewed, but it can be invalidated through various invisible means, such as writing more than a thousand pages in obscure language, which the normal public cannot read at all.

If you want to ask why, it is that the report issued by professionals must be a professional report. These are necessary contents and not a word can be deleted.

Using this method raises the reading threshold for outsiders, and you can build censorship barriers to achieve your desired goals.

In actual practice, the so-called 1,547-page budget was only made public. Behind the scenes, the congressmen already had a streamlined version in their hands.

This 1,547-page budget was not formed out of thin air. It was written page by page by people, and it could only be passed with enough votes of approval. It was not a document that appeared out of thin air and made all members of Congress their opponents.

In fact, before this lengthy document was formed, there were countless blendings and connections behind the scenes, and the budget was produced after soliciting the opinions of the majority of parliamentarians.

When they got the final version of the 1,547-page budget bill, the congressmen did not review it page by page, but directly checked to see if the part of the money they wanted was listed on it. As for the other billions of dollars, It doesn't matter how they are spent.

Therefore, this extremely long document is only very long for the public. It is so long because it must be publicized, but in fact, congressmen do not need to pay attention to such a long content. They just need to see whether their private goods are in it.

But the AI ​​didn't know what the congressmen wanted, and it couldn't chat with them, so it was all cut off.

Legally, the U.S. budget must be publicized and subject to public supervision. However, in practice, no public has ever implemented supervision of any U.S. budget. At most, you can scold for being unreasonable, but the budget should be spent as it was. Anyway, the congressman who took the money will be replaced in a few years. Never mind whether you scold him or not. Anyway, the money has been spent legally and it is impossible to return it.

This time Musk not only used AI to cut off the mixed private interests of congressmen, but also directly announced it, using the power of public opinion to force congressmen to accept it, so that unreasonable budgets were cut off before they were spent. This is the first time in U.S. history that public oversight of the national budget has truly been achieved.

For the congressmen, this concession was just because they were caught off guard. Anyway, there are opportunities to get this kind of money every once in a while. The historical rules are to take turns. It doesn't matter if you can't get it once.

But if you want congressmen to always be out of reach, then it can’t be indifferent.

Musk won this time not because of the advanced AI technology, but because the congressmen showed respects to Musk. After all, it is a political rule to admit defeat when encountering advanced and innovative political gameplay.

But it is pure wishful thinking to expect that AI technology will be used to cut off the wallets of congressmen in the future. This kind of thing will never happen again.

This kind of budget is a spoils-sharing conference. Each congressman's aunts and and uncles, some charity organizations, consulting companies, etc. all have to get some. Just a smart AI wants to completely eliminate the congressmen's financial resources?

Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.

Some people say that they should also use AI to form a 15 million-page document, and then add anti-AI content, so that the battle will eventually become a war between graphics cards, and the one with stronger computing power will win.

It’s not necessary. The purpose of politicians’ existence in this world is not to use technology to fight. What politicians are best at is always fighting people.

On December 17, just hours after Musk used his AI technology to review House of Representatives budget documents, the U.S. military urgently announced that Musk would be reviewed by the military due to classified security issues.

The U.S. military means that Musk is at risk of leaking U.S. military secrets to foreign countries, and said that some countries, including Israel, have also expressed concerns about Musk sharing sensitive U.S. data with other countries.

Musk being investigated by the U.S. military due to security risks does not mean that the U.S. military wants to arrest Musk. The real reason for the US military's actions is to directly "legally" refuse to provide Musk with high-level security access after initiating an investigation into Musk's security risks.

To put it simply, Musk was refused access to all confidential data of the military, including the budget, on the grounds that Musk might leak secrets.

On December 23, U.S. President Biden signed the $900 billion budget defense authorization bill submitted by the U.S. military. This bill was approved without Musk even seeing it on the grounds of protecting military secrets.

Musk worked hard to cut the $380 billion budget bill over there, offending a large group of congressmen. It’s hard to say how much he could cut in the end. The $900 billion budget bill here was approved without even reading it, and the entire process is kept secret, otherwise no one can bear the risk of leaking military secrets.

The military budget is full of military secrets. How do you make it public and allow "mass supervision"?

This is just a small means used by the US "Deep State" to softly confront Musk. It was just a temporary idea. If you give it a little time, The House of Representatives can also find rules that are favorable to itself within the "legal" framework to softly counter Musk's so-called AI review technology.

Even if the current laws are completely ineffective, then new legislation can be adopted. People are alive and rules are dead. The problem in American politics is a human problem and a system problem, not a technical problem.

As long as the political system does not change and people do not change, trying to change the status quo in the United States by relying on AI censorship is simply overthinking. If you succeed in opportunism once, you will be lucky.

Only a system and a new interest group can fight against a system and an old interest group. Otherwise, the best outcome is the death of the people and the government.

Zhang Juzheng was so powerful at that time. He wanted to reform the financial shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty. He defeated all officials within the legal framework and gave a wave of life to the Ming Dynasty. However, the end was still  Zhang's death and the death of the government.

As long as Zhang Juzheng is gone, his reforms will naturally be gone, so it is very simple to kill Zhang's reforms.

But if a new interest group forms a new system and then promotes reforms, it will be very difficult to defeat it. Only by bringing down an entire class group can you win the battle.

Therefore, U.S. congressmen do not need super graphics cards to fight Musk. This kind of reform promoted by one person rather than an interest group is destined to be short-lived. As long as people die, the government will inevitably die.

Anyway, Trump’s term is only 4 years, and the matter will be over after a few years of soft confrontation.

If there are any signs that Musk will do this for the rest of his life, it is not impossible for the old interest groups to directly engage in hard confrontation.

Musk's status is much nobler. But in the eyes of the US military, he is just a larger "accountant" if it's really urgent. The small accountants who crashed in the past, Musk will crash in the same way.

So if Musk just use this to perform political performances and do whatever he wants to do after taking the stage, then everyone will accept it. This is a political fight within the "rules", and those who are less skilled temporarily give up their interests.

But if Musk continues to play like this after Trump officially takes office, it will be "breaking the rules."

For people who break the rules, either you have to deal with everyone on the other side and set up new rules yourself, or everyone on the other side must join forces to deal with you.

Obviously, Musk does not have the ability and courage to deal with everyone on the other side, so it is best to shout loudly but act softly, to show off, and not to break the rules after taking office.

Otherwise, the ending will definitely be done by someone.