Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in the Oval Office while the American president signed an executive decree allowing the technological billionaire to make large-scale reductions in the federal workforce.
As head of the Government Ministry (DOGE), an advisory group, Mr. Musk said he wants to add “common sense checks” to the government and make sure taxpayers’ money is judiciously spent.
The decree obliges government agencies to work with DOGE, in some cases so that they can be “eliminated or combined because their functions are not required by law”.
In addition, the agencies were invited to “rent an employee more than one employees for four employees who deviate from federal services”, with exceptions for immigration, the application of laws and public security.
Answering questions from journalists in the Oval Office, Mr. Musk was invited to answer the accusations that he orchestrated a “hostile takeover” of government in a non -transparent manner.
Elon Musk told journalists from the Oval Office that “the public had voted for great government reform”. Pic: AP
THE Tesla The CEO and owner of X said: “The public voted for a reform of the major government … and they will obtain what he voted for. And that’s what democracy is used for ”.
“We have this fourth non-elected non-institutional branch, which is the bureaucracy, which has in many ways, currently more power than any elected representative,” he added, while standing alongside his son X æ A-12.
Mr. Musk also talked about what he described as a lack of treasury controls. “Your taxes must be spent judiciously for things that matter to people … It’s just common sense. It is not draconian or radical ”.
Elon Musk brought his son to the White House for the Oval Office press conference. Pic: Reuters
When disputed as to what checks and sales are in place to ensure the responsibility of Mr. Musk, who is not elected, he replied: “We try to be as transparent as possible … I do not does not know a case where an organization has been more transparent ”.
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Another journalist raised the possibility of conflicts of interest, stressing that Mr. Musk received billions of dollars in federal contracts.
“All our actions are fully public,” he said, adding that he is fully expecting to be “constantly examined” – comparing him to “a daily examination of the proctologist” – but also admitting “we will make mistakes, but We will also repair errors very quickly ”.
Earlier Tuesday, Musk published an attack on judges who made decisions that interrupted Mr. Trump’s executive actions.
“Democracy in America is destroyed by a judicial coup,” wrote Musk on X.
The president expressed a similar complaint in the oval office alongside Mr. Musk.
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“We want to eliminate corruption. And it seems difficult to believe that a judge could say, we don’t want you to do this, “he said.
“So maybe we have to look at the judges, because it’s very serious. I think it is a very serious violation. »»
Mr. Trump too had discussions with the king of Jordan Abdullah in the White House.
The president repeated his commitment to “take Gaza” and to move his residents to Jordan and Egypt, which the king rejected.