Published on 15/11/2024 14:54
Updated on 15/11/2024 16:03
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Mathieu Gallard, director of studies at Ipsos, believes that within the government, the climate could become tense between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, because of their ideological differences.
“When it comes to firing hundreds of thousands of civil servants”, “quite quickly, it can clash between” Elon Musk and Donald Trump, estimates Mathieu Gallard, director of studies at Ipsos and author of The United States on the brink of civil war (ed. de l'Aube), in the franceinfo Talk, Wednesday November 13.
The day before, the 47th President of the United States announced the appointment of the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network“governmental efficiency”. Elon Musk will have the mission of “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies.”
For Mathieu Gallard, “there is a logic” to appoint Elon Musk to this position, because “he is indeed on a libertarian line”. But according to the pollster, Donald Trump “never specifically criticized the size of the federal state, he never considered reducing the state”Mathieu Gallard loves.
Donald Trump et Elon Musk “have fairly common personality traitsexplains Mathieu Gallard, “and we imagine that, in power, it can easily not work very well”. The research director at Ipsos also predicts disagreements between the two men if Elon Musk plans to eliminate many positions and “not a few directors of federal administrations”, particularly in the face of local consequences.
Mathieu Gallard takes as an example the “States in which the education system is in a catastrophic state”.
“We can say 'we're going to fire civil servants', that doesn't mean anything. But as soon as we get down to business, we realize that we can no longer fire them because it has consequences.”
Mathieu Gallard, research director at Ipsosat franceinfo
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