Donald Trump says he’ll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government

Sep 06, 2024 09:38 PM - 1 month ago 47204

Former President Donald Trump says that if reelected, he’ll create a authorities ratio task unit — and that Elon Musk has already agreed to lead it. During a reside successful New York connected Thursday, Trump said nan caller ratio committee would behaviour a “complete financial and capacity audit of nan full national government” and make recommendations for “drastic reforms.”

Musk’s companies are recipients of authorities spending, pinch records showing Tesla has received astir 13 percent of nan EV charging awards granted arsenic portion of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law, according to Politico. Meanwhile, SpaceX has received billions successful national backing since its inception.

As we noted aft Musk endorsed Trump successful July, that came contempt nan erstwhile president’s support of a plan to rotation backmost nan Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. It would destruct nan taxation in installments inducement for electrical vehicles, but Musk claimed successful a tweet that it would “only thief Tesla.”

Trump says nan committee comes “at nan suggestion” of nan billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who antecedently showed his liking successful specified a domiciled during an question and reply pinch Trump connected X. Last month, Musk also posted what appears to beryllium an AI-generated image of himself astatine a podium branded “Department of Government Efficiency.”

“I look guardant to serving America if nan opportunity arises,” Musk said on X pursuing Trump’s speech. “No pay, nary title, nary nickname is needed.”

During past month’s interview, nan erstwhile president called Musk nan “greatest cutter,” successful reference to nan thousands of workers he laid disconnected astatine Tesla earlier this year, on pinch massive occupation cuts astatine Twitter that gutted astir half of nan company’s workforce.

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