This is the image of the day: The richest man on earth Who, standing next to the US president’s office, explains that his cutback program is not intended to run the government.
During a ‘spontaneous’ press conference, Elon Musk answered questions from media from the Oval Office on Tuesday, where he and his four -year -old son X visited President Donald Trump in the White House.
Through Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), Musk, with a team of his faithful, cuts hard in US government spending. That goes with forced redundancies and the conclusion of assistance programs such as USAID. There is a lot of criticism from Democratic politicians, and the lawsuits against doge measures are piling up.
There is little supervision of doge, but according to Musk he operates “completely transparent” and his approach is not “draconic or radical,” the multi -millionaire said during a thirty -minute session with journalists. “The majority of Americans want the government to be reorganized,” that’s what it’s all about in democracy. “
Trump signed a decree on Tuesday to give Doge more scope, reports The Wall Street Journal
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