Donald Trump wants to task Elon Musk with an “audit” of the American government to “reform” it in depth, if he is elected

If he wins the November 5 election, the Republican candidate for the American presidency, Donald Trump, announced on Thursday, September 5, that he would charge the billionaire Elon Musk, to whom he is close, with a « audit » of the government with a view to “reforms” in depth.

“On the advice of Elon Musk (…) I will establish a government commission to conduct a comprehensive financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, with a view to making recommendations for drastic reforms.”the former US president said before a club of economists and business circles in New York.

This is not the first time that the 78-year-old tribune and businessman has said that he would like to see Mr. Musk at his side in a possible new administration, if he is re-elected on November 5. But Donald Trump has never been so specific about the tasks he wants to entrust to the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X. “We have to do it, we can’t continue like this. And Elon has agreed to lead this commission.”he hammered home.

In response to this announcement, Elon Musk wrote on X having “looking forward to serving America if the opportunity arises”. “No salary, no title, no recognition is necessary”added the man who regularly attacks Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on his social network and does not hide his support for Mr. Trump.

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On Thursday, Donald Trump again spent more than an hour hammering the program of his Democratic rival and the “economic catastrophe” caused according to him by the government of President Joe Biden. “We are in economic crisis, a failed nation, a nation in serious decline”once again estimated the former American leader, who has not ceased for a decade to paint the world’s leading power in a negative light.

The current vice president and candidate for the election “wants four more years to implement a radical left agenda that poses a fundamental threat to the prosperity of every American family and to America as a whole.”Mr. Trump further accused. Developing in a disjointed speech some of the axes of what his economic program would be, he also promised to do “The United States is the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies”.

As Mr. Trump spoke in New York, less than a week before a highly anticipated Sept. 10 debate with his rival, the latter arrived in Pennsylvania, perhaps the most crucial state in the presidential election.