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

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

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

Trump says the committee comes “at the suggestion” of the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who antecedently showed his involvement successful specified a relation during an interrogation with Trump connected X. Last month, Musk also posted what appears to beryllium an AI-generated representation of himself astatine a podium labeled “Department of Government Efficiency.”

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

During past month’s interview, the erstwhile president called Musk the “greatest cutter” successful notation to the thousands of workers helium laid disconnected astatine Tesla earlier this year, on with massive occupation cuts astatine Twitter that gutted astir fractional of the company’s workforce.