The proposal of the US president comes due to skepticism according to the savings of savings from the cost of Elon Musk.
The President of the United States Donald Trump has suggested the use of some savings of the technology billionaire Elon Musk Cost reduction drive Give Americans money and repay the government debt.
Speaking at the investment summit in which he hosted the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia in Miami Beach in Florida on Wednesday in Miami Beach, Trump said he was considering using 20 percent of public payment and 20 percent to pay the debt of the Federal Government in the amount of $ 36 trillion.
“The numbers are amazing, Elon. So billions of dollars … hundreds of billions,” Trump said at the Summit of the Institute for the future investment initiative (FII), referring to Savings identified by Musk’s The so -called Department for Government Efficiency (Doge)
“We are considering returning 20 percent to US citizens, and 20 percent to pay back the debt.”
Trump’s proposal came about the day after Doge James Fishback, the Azoria investment company, proposed “Dividend Doge”, which was funded by the cost to reduce costs.
In a four-page record posted on X on Tuesday, Fishback said that any tax-paying house could send a $ 5,000 check, assuming that the Musk working group saves two trillion dollars to the moment he finished his work in July 2026. .
In response to Fishback Memorandum, Musk, Tesla CEO and Spacex, said on X that he would “check with the president.”
During Trump’s election campaign, Musk, the richest person in the world, predicted that he could find savings of two trillion dollars, but later withdrew those estimates, suggesting in an interview in January that he had a good chance of saving half.
Doge, who is not the official government department, claimed that he has reached $ 55 billion so far, but is Detailed documentation has not been published support that figure.
On Monday, Doge published a list of contracts he said was canceled to achieve $ 16 billion savings.
The list, however, has misplaced the value of a $ 8 million contract with immigration and customs implementation as $ 8 billion.
Guo Xu, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Haas, who studies the effectiveness of government bureaucracy, expressed skepticism to Trump’s proposal to share government savings with public.
“This seems to be a populist measure intended to secrete the capacity of our federal government more attractive,” Xu told Al Jazeera.
“Instead of reducing the government to reduce checks, we should invest in order to strengthen national infrastructure, science and national security.”
