Talking about coming cuts from him and Musk he said we need to have a Milei style cut, on steroids. Milei is President of argentina and did massive cuts there to government spending.
Oh I almost forgot, the current poverty rate in Argentina is 52.9%, that means 53% of the population is living in poverty, which is WAY above what it was before Milei took over and institued the austerity measures Vivek is calling for.
The initial impact was a large increase in inflation, in a country that already had bad inflation. The poverty is just an extra benefit