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The Tesla CEO on Wednesday pointed to famed economist Milton Friedman's opinion from decades ago about how bloated the government had become.</p> <div class="ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load"><div data-iu="ban1" id="mobile-mw-ad-ban1" class="ad gam inline"></div></div><p>"Milton Friedman was the best," Musk wrote in a post on X, sharing an interview the late Nobel laureate gave, wherein he went through a list of <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/government-and-institutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entire federal agencies</a> that should never have been created in the first place, as well as those that he felt were important.</p><div class="inline image-ct"><div class="m"><picture><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/343/192/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/686/384/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x"> <source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/672/378/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/1344/756/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x"> <source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/931/523/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/1862/1046/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/720/405/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/1440/810/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x"> <img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/11/931/523/gettyimages-2180566045-scaled.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="Musk wears SpaceX jacket while speaking at Trump event"></picture></div> <div class="caption"><p><span>Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 26.</span><span> (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)</span></p></div></div> <p>In the interview, Friedman was asked to give a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether certain agencies should be kept or abolished.</p><p>Friedman said the Department of Agriculture and the Commerce Department should both be "gone," right off the bat, but said the U.S. should keep in place its <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Defense</a>.</p> <div class="ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load"><div data-iu="ban2" id="mobile-mw-ad-ban2" class="ad gam inline"></div></div><p><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ramaswamy-says-some-federal-agencies-deleted-outright-doge-mass-reductions-tap" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>RAMASWAMY SAYS SOME FEDERAL AGENCIES WILL BE ‘DELETED OUTRIGHT’ BY DOGE WITH ‘MASS REDUCTIONS’ ON TAP</strong></a></p><div data-unit-credible=",," data-in-article="true" class="credible"></div><p>He said the Department of Education should be abolished, as well as the Department of Energy, except for the parts that deal with nuclear, which should be moved under the Defense Department.</p><div class="embed-media twitter align-center"><div class="tweet-embed"></div></div><p>When asked about the Department of Health and Human Services, Friedman said that "there is some room for public health activities to prevent the contagion," but argued half of the agency should be eliminated.</p><div class="ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load"><div data-iu="ban3" id="mobile-mw-ad-ban3" class="ad gam inline"></div></div><p>The economist, who died in 2006, also said the Department of Housing and Urban Development should also go, saying it "had done an enormous amount of harm." </p><p><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/musk-ramaswamys-doge-opens-hiring-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>MUSK AND RAMAWAMY'S DOGE OPENS HIRING ON X</strong></a></p><p>Friedman went on to say the Department of the Interior could remain in place until the federal government sells off all the land it owns — with the exception of the land its buildings sit on — and then it should also be scrapped.</p><div class="ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load"><div data-iu="ban4" id="mobile-mw-ad-ban4" class="ad gam 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and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall on October 26, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Musk has donated more than $75 million to America PAC, which he co-founded with fellow Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech businessmen to support Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. 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