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Donald Trump says he’ll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government
The taskforce came “at the suggestion” of Musk.
During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would conduct a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make recommendations for “drastic reforms.” Musk’s companies are recipients of government spending, with records showing Tesla has received nearly 13 percent of the EV charging awards granted as part of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law, according to Politico. During last month’s interview, the former president called Musk the “greatest cutter,” in reference to the thousands of workers he laid off at Tesla earlier this year, along with massive job cuts at Twitter that gutted around half of the company’s workforce.
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