This statement was made by Mr. Trump in an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier reporter, broadcast on the morning of 9.2.
Mr. Trump said: "I will tell Mr. Musk very early, maybe within the next 24 hours, that please check the Ministry of Education first. After that, I will ask him to check the army. See billions, even hundreds of billions of dollars cheating and wasting there ”.
The US defense budget is now close to 1,000 billion USD per year. Earlier, in December, former President Joe Biden signed a bill of approval of defense spending worth $ 895 billion for the fiscal year ending on September 30.
Elon Musk, who is currently confirmed by the White House as a special employee of the Government, has been tasked with leading the effort to cut the size of the federal labor force. Within this initiative, Musk's assistants sought to access computer systems containing confidential information at many government agencies.
However, this effort faces many criticisms when experts believe that the above action may violate the law, reveal confidential information and weaken state agencies without the approval of the National Assembly. .
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said that the Pentagon's military shipbuilding process is one of the areas that need to be carefully considered. He said: "Everything there seems to be too expensive, take too much time and bring low efficiency to the military. We need real business leaders to thoroughly improve the process of the process Shopping of the Pentagon ”.
Mr. Waltz also emphasized that the field of military shipbuilding is a "mess" and needs to be carefully reviewed.
For a long time, leaders of many parties have criticized the waste and inefficient situation in the operation of the Pentagon. However, the Democratic Party MPs and the Federation of civil servants warned that the Government's effectiveness led by Mr. Musk lacked expertise to restructure the Pentagon, and at the same time, there was a risk of leaking programs. Saturated.
In addition, Musk's companies holding many large contracts with the Pentagon also raised concerns about the risk of conflict of interest in the process of performing audit tasks.
