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Donald Trump said he would try to reduce billions of dollars from Pentagon budget as the next great target in an effort that Elon Musk led to reduce the consumption of US government agencies.
In an interview on Sunday, Trump supported Musk’s reduction of costs through the so -called “Government Efficiency Department“Even while facing growing failures in federal courts and leaders of Democrats to exceed his powers.
Trump said Musk was “great” and “great help” in the federal government search due to possible consumption reductions so far. He said that the Ministry of Defense, which has an annual budget of about $ 800 billion, will be next in the sights of the billionaire.
“Let’s check the army. We’ll find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars fraud and abuse. You know, people have chosen me to do so,” Trump said.
Musk’s potential role in searches of pentagon for savings has already caused concern about the potential conflict of interest, given that his Spacex and Starlink branch have contracts with the government.
But Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Advisor, rejected those worries in an interview with NBC. He said that “all appropriate firewalls” would be in place to prevent conflicts, although he did not offer further details.
“The American people said enough, enough with swelling and waste and debt,” Waltz said. “We need great minds and we need business leaders to get there and absolutely reform the process of acquiring a pentagon,” he said.
With a male in a leading role, Trump’s second administration aggressively converted to crumbling some federal programs and agencies.
In one failure for Musk on Saturday, a federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the effort of his team In order to get access to data on payment of the US Ministry of Finance, saying that it could lead to detection of sensitive personal information that could cause “irreparable damage” to Americans.
Democrats are crying more and more.
“This is the most serious constitutional crisis that the Earth faced, surely from Watergate,” said Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democratic Senator.
“The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies. It is eviction of democracy,” he added.
The most severe hit federal agencies include USAIDwho manages a foreign assistance and a consumer protection office, whose employees on Saturday said the acting director of Russell vouight to stop almost all of their activities, including investigations and supervision. Trump also vowed to eliminate the education department, which has long been the target of conservative IREA.
The Republicans in Congress stood along Trump and Musk as they moved to stop the wide range of federal programs, although the pressure undermined the constitutional role of lawmakers in the approval of consumption.
Mike Turner, a Republican from Ohija, said on the ABC that Trump’s administration is needed to “critically” views on the US consumption policies because the fiscal path in the country was “unsustainable”. But he also said that Musk could move more eternally.
“He must, in a more professional way, communicate with the US public,” Turner said.
