SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk lead the cleansing of the US government jobs, which describe critics as “evaluation of democracy”.
US President Donald Trump said that he expects his ally Elon Musk to find billions of dollars and abuse in the Pentagon after he was commissioned to conduct an audit to reduce the size of the US federal agents.
“We will find billions, hundreds of million dollars,” said Trump in an interview with Fox News about the largest federal department, the extract of which was broadcast on Sunday morning.
“And people chose me.”
The Pentagon budget is approaching 1 trillion dollar a year. In December, the then President Joe Biden signed a draft law in which $ 895 billion was approved for defense spending on the financial year that ended on September 30th.
The right-wing billionaire and SpaceX and the Tesla boss Musk, whom the White House has appointed for the management of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), will have access to confidential information in computer systems in various government agencies in order to perform the set task .
Managers from the entire political spectrum have long criticized waste and inefficiency in the Pentagon, but critics say that these efforts uncover classified information and gutted entire agencies without the consent of the congress.
Musk companies also have large orders with the Pentagon, which has triggered significant interests in the areas of conflicts in the areas of interest. A US judge issued an emergency command on Saturday, which blocked Doge from accessing the payment department systems of the finance department, which contained the sensitive data of the Americans.
Despite the concerns, Trump seemed to double the idea and said he would ask Muschus: “Very soon, maybe in 24 hours to check the Ministry of Education. … then I’ll go to the military ”.
In a separate interview on Sunday, the national security advisor Mike Waltz proposed that the shipbuilding processes of the Pentagon could be an area of particular interest.
“Everything there seems to be too much too much to take, too long and deliver too little to the soldiers … We need economic leaders to go in there and absolutely reform the Pentagon’s acquisition process,” said Waltz in an interview with NBC News.
In his three office weeks, Trump granted a flood of executive regulations that aim to reduce federal expenditure -including the transfer of funds to the US Agency for International Development (USA) -but no evidence of widespread fraud was presented .
On Saturday, the Trump administration ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop almost all of the work, and closed an agency that was founded after the financial crisis of 2008 and the Subprime mortgage scandal to protect consumers.
Democrats have made Trump’s efforts. Senator Chris Murphy warned of an “attack on the constitution” on Sunday and said that Trump had initiated a “billionaire takeover of the government”.
“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,” Murphy told ABC News. “That is the expiry of democracy.”
