Trump says that musk to detect billions of dollars in “fraud and abuse” in the Pentagon Politics News

The Spacex and Tesla Musk surveyor headed by the US government’s position called “evacuation of democracy”.

US President Donald Trump said he expected his ally Elon Musk To find billions of dollars in fraud and ill -treatment in the Pentagon, after assigning him to provide an audit to reduce the size of the US federal workforce.

“We will find billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse,” Trump said of the largest federal ministry in an interview with Fox News, excerpts that were broadcast on Sunday morning.

“And, as you know, people elected me on that.”

The Pentagon budget is approaching $ 1 trillion per year. In December, then President Joe Biden signed a draft law that allows $ 895 billion in the fiscal year ending on September 30.

The right billionaire, Spacex and Tesla Boss Musk, which was appointed by the White House to head the facility recently Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge)He will be able to access secret information in computer systems in various government agencies in order to fulfill the specified task.

The leaders of the political spectrum have long criticized waste and incompetence in the Pentagon, but critics say that these efforts are risked to expose the classified information and escape from the entire agencies without the approval of Congress.

Musk companies also hold major contracts with the Pentagon, which sparked major conflict concerns. An American judge issued on Saturday Emergency Dog prevented from accessing the Treasury Department, which contains sensitive data for Americans.

Despite fears, Trump seemed to double the idea, saying he would ask Musk, “Very soon, like 24 hours, to check the Ministry of Education. Then I will go, go to the army.”

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz suggested in a separate interview on Sunday that the Pentagon’s shipbuilding operations may be a special importance.

“It seems that everything costs him a lot, takes a long time and provides very little soldiers … we need business leaders to go there and fix the acquisition in the Pentagon,” Walz said in an interview with NBC News.

Over the three weeks in office, Trump issued a wave of executive orders aimed at reducing federal spending – including Stopping funds to the USAID Agency (USAID) But no evidence was provided to fraud on a large scale.

On Saturday, the Trump administration ordered the financial protection office for consumers to stop almost all of its work, as it has already closed an agency created to protect consumers after the 2008 real estate residence scandal and mortgage.

Democrats have criticized Trump’s efforts. Senator Chris Murphy warned on Sunday from “an attack on the constitution” and said Trump was drawing “the billionaire seizure of the government.”

“The president wants to be able to decide how and the place of spending so that he can reward his political friends, and he can punish his political enemies,” Murphy told ABC News. “This is the evacuation of democracy.”