President Donald Trump said on Friday that Elon Musk was doing a “very good job” with the government’s Ministry of Efficiency.
President Donald Trump Do not apologize for Elon Musk. In fact, it seems ready to show the technological billionaire.
Friday, while answering questions at a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump was pressed by a journalist to find out if the media would have a chance to question musk.
“Oh, of course. He will be – he is not shy. Elon is not shy,” replied Trump.
President elected Donald Trump, on the right, walks with Elon Musk before attending a visualization of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, November 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell / Pool via Reuters TPX Images of the day / Reuters)
Trump was also questioned on a magazine coverage in recent time Musc to disappoint Sitting behind the desk resolved in the oval office of the White House. In response, Trump, who was named nobody of the year in 2024 of Time, took so that he did not realize that the magazine was still there.
“Is Time magazine still in business? I didn’t even know it,” said Trump. However, he continued to praise technology. “Elon does a great job. He finds huge fraud, corruption and waste.”
The president specifically praised Musk’s work in the transmission of expenditure of the American Agency for International Development (USAID), saying that “everything is fraud”.
“Each line I look at with regard to events and transactions is either corrupt or ridiculous,” Trump told journalists before adding: “He does a very good job. I am very happy with him.”
President elected Donald Trump, on the left, and Elon Musk speak at the edge of the ring during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden in New York on November 16, 2024. (Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC / Getty Images)
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Just over two weeks after Trump’s second term, the chief of Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE) has become the target of the anger of the Democrats, with a lot of protest against him.
On Saturday, Musk said that Doge had discovered that the Treasury Department had asked the staff to approve payments to “fraudulent or known terrorist groups”.
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The Democrats were indignant that Musk, a private citizen, had access to sensitive payment systems from the Treasury Department.
“Each time a person can pay $ 250 million in a campaign, and has given full access to the United States Department of America, we are at war,” said representative Lamonica McIiver, DN .J. Rally organized by Moveon Civic Action, indivisible and the feast of workers’ families on Tuesday.
The demonstrators gather outside the Treasury department in Washington, DC on Tuesday. (Reuters / Kent Nishimura / Reuters)
In a letter Tuesday to federal legislators, a head of the Treasury Department said that a technological director working with DOGE will have “access to reading alone” to the government’s payment system.
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Despite the fury of the Democrats, the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Defend Musk during an appearance on “Kudlow” by Fox Business.
“Elon Musk is the largest entrepreneur of this generation,” said Bessent. “Doge is not going to fail. They move a lot of people’s cheese here in the capital, and when you hear this cry, then an interest in the status quo is not happy.”
Louis Casiano de Fox News contributed to this report.
