(Congressional Agenda) – On Sunday, former President Donald Trump announced that billionaire CEO of Tesla and owner of social media platform, X, Elon Musk, will have a very large role in his administration if the GOP nominee is victorious over Vice President Kamala Harris in November. While doing an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump was asked if Musk would be a Cabinet member. He replied that he would not, noting that Musk himself has no interest in being part of the Cabinet.
“He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting,” Trump told the host, going on to say, “He’s dying to do this.”
Believe me when I say, so are the rest of us.
Musk did an incredible job at finding and eliminating waste when he bought Twitter, transforming it into X. Imagine what he could do with the bloated federal government and all of the money it wastes on useless programs, projects, and of course, congressional pay.
“We’ll have a new position: Secretary of Cost-Cutting. Elon wants to do that, and we have incredible people. He’s running a big business. He can’t just say, ‘I think I’ll go into the Cabinet.’ Other people can. He can’t, but Elon’s a little bit different in that sense,” Trump stated, Randy DeSoto of The Western Journal reported.
"Elon Musk will be the secretary of cost cutting."
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“He’s a great business guy, and he’s a great cost-cutter,” the former president remarked of Musk. “And he [Musk] said, ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody.’”
“Musk floated the idea of having a government efficiency commission during his interview with Trump on the social media platform X, saying it’s a key to getting inflation under control,” DeSoto penned in his article.
“So if the government spends far more than it brings in, that increases the money supply, and if the money supply increases faster than the rate of goods and services, that’s inflation,” the billionaire explained. The federal deficit for fiscal year 2024 was $1.8 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion in 2023 and $1.4 trillion in 2022.
“So really, we need to reduce our government spending. And I think we need a government efficiency commission to say, ‘Where are we spending money that’s sensible, and where is it not sensible?’” Musk elaborated further. Man, it is impossible not to love this guy. Everything he mentioned is what common sense conservatives have been saying for years. But now we have an impartial person, who is actually good at saving money, being backed by an individual who has a very realistic chance of being the next president.
In other words, fantasy could become reality.
“Elon Musk tells Trump that he would like to work on a Government Efficiency Commission to cut out wasteful government spending that is driving inflation,” DeSoto wrote.
Elon Musk tells Trump that he would like to work on a Government Efficiency Commission to cut out wasteful government spending that is driving inflation.
Trump responds by saying, "I'd love it" and calls Musk "the greatest cutter" of inefficiencies inside organizations. pic.twitter.com/wiGMy4PfFM
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 13, 2024
Trump was very enthusiastic about the idea, going on to say, “The waste is incredible, and nobody negotiates prices.”
“I think it would be great just to have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and ensures that the taxpayers’ money, the taxpayer’s hard-earned money, is spent in a good way, and I’d be happy to help out on such a commission,” Musk told Trump.
“I’d love it. You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump asserted in response. “You would be very good. You would love it.”
“The former president told the Economic Club of New York last month that Musk will chair the government efficiency commission, which will be ‘tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. We need to do it. Can’t go on the way we are now,'” the report noted.
TRUMP: “At the suggestion of Elon Musk — I will create a Government efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. Elon.. has agreed to head that task force” pic.twitter.com/a48F9RUC1f
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 5, 2024
In case you’re wondering, this is not something new or an unprecedented course of action. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan put together the Grace Commission, composed of “experts from the private sector”, in order to help find ways the government could locate waste spending and eliminate it. The commission was led by businessman J. Peter Grace.
“During [Reagan’s] Administration, growth in government spending plummeted from 10 percent in 1982, to just over 1 percent in 1987. With inflation factored in, Federal spending actually went down in 1987 — the first time that had happened in well over a decade,” according to information from the Reagan Foundation.
With Trump in the White House and Musk heading up this commission, we might actually see the government spending within its means again. What a miracle that would be.
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