Donald Trump Says Elon Musk Will Lead ‘Government Efficiency’ Task Force

Donald Trump has made it known that, if elected again, helium volition make a “government efficiency” committee to audit the national government—an thought that was notably spawned by his pal (more recently, funder and unofficial run administrator), billionaire jackass Elon Musk. Lord assistance us.

Trump made the remarks Thursday during a run halt astatine the New York Economic Club. “At the proposition of Elon Musk, who has fixed maine his implicit and full endorsement…I volition make a authorities ratio committee tasked with conducting a implicit fiscal and show audit of the full national government,” Trump said. “Elon has agreed to caput the task force,” Trump added portion noting that the task unit would beryllium liable for “making recommendations for drastic reforms” to the government.

The commission, which Elon primitively mentioned during a podcast quality past month, would behaviour “a implicit fiscal and show audit of the full national government,” which would past signifier the ground for said “drastic” reforms, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Musk made it known that helium would leap astatine the accidental to instrumentality specified a job. “I’d beryllium blessed to assistance retired connected specified a commission,” and connected Thursday said connected X. “I look guardant to serving America if the accidental arises. No pay, nary title, nary designation is needed.” Later, Musk tweeted: “This would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”

The Journal was speedy to enactment that specified a presumption could correspond a struggle of interest. Given the information that multiple Musk-owned companies are currently nether investigation by national agencies, what’s to halt Musk from utilizing his “efficiency” committee to reason that, say, the SEC (which is presently probing Musk’s takeover of Twitter) is “inefficient” and needs gutting? Indeed, putting Musk successful specified a presumption gives the billionaire a cleanable bureaucratic vantage constituent to people his enemies successful government. In the past, Musk has besides raged against America’s National Labor Relations Board, the bureau tasked with protecting America’s workers from radical similar Musk. Given the accidental to “audit” said bureau for “efficiency,” what’s the likelihood that Musk would play nice? The chances look slim.

In general, Musk’s committee sounds successful enactment with the remainder of Trump’s plans for a 2nd presidency, the likes of which would apt beryllium a windfall for America’s plutocrats and a complete catastrophe for everybody else.

Like their rightwing backers, Trump and his cronies person made a batch of sound astir the request for “government efficiency” and national spendthrift. However, voters would bash good to retrieve that, during his archetypal administration, Trump was hardly the representation of “efficiency.” Indeed, helium caused 1 of the azygous biggest increases successful the nationalist indebtedness successful our nation’s past (the lone evident exceptions being George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln). Trump added to the indebtedness substantially erstwhile helium pointlessly gave immense taxation breaks to America’s richest people, similar Musk. Notably, immoderate estimates accidental Trump ran the nationalist indebtedness up twice arsenic overmuch arsenic Biden. Furthermore, investigation of Trump’s caller economical program shows it would adhd arsenic overmuch arsenic $4 trillion to the nationalist shortage implicit the people of the adjacent decade—substantially more than Kamala Harris’ plan.

Perhaps to distract from the information that their economical designs are fundamentally conscionable an Oprah-style giveaway to America’s plutocratic elite, Donald Trump and his allies (including Musk) person resorted to a alternatively pathetic effort to formed Kamala Harris—a affluent erstwhile authoritative who is joined to a firm lawyer—as a “Communist.” Trump has spewed a near-constant watercourse of vitriol astatine Harris, repeatedly referring to her arsenic “Comrade Kamala” and suggesting that the alternatively tame economical suggestions that her run has made successful caller weeks would enactment America connected the way to Bolshevism. The accusation present seems clear: immoderate effort to usage the authorities to lessen the interaction of firm predation connected mundane radical is “communism,” portion the way to bureaucratic virtuousness is paved with privatization and taxation giveaways to the rich.