Illon Musk says Dougi will suit the mistakes he made in cutting programs

Billionaire Elon MuskWho cost President Donald Trump the leadership of the Ministry of Government efficiency (DOGE), he spoke at the first meeting of the Council of Ministers in the new administration on Wednesday and said that Dog may make some mistakes, but he would quickly repair them.

“I must say that we will make mistakes as well. We will not be perfect. But when we make mistakes, we will fix them very quickly,” Musk said.

“Therefore, for example, with the American Agency for International Development, one of the things we missed by mistake, for a very short period of time, Ebola, Prohibition. I think we all want to prevent Ebola, so we have regained the prevention of Ebola, and there was no interruption. ”

The USAID Agency (USAID) was one of the first Doug’s first goals Trump administration He took office with the administration looking to transfer the agency under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this process, the Trump administration will retain some US agency employees for International Development to continue the management of life -saving programs, while other programs are ended and workers are demobilized.

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Musk said in the X -3 -February areas that he and Trump decided to make discounts at the US International Development Agency after it became clear that it is not an apple in it. What we have is just a worm ball. You have to get rid of the whole thing. It is no more than reform. “

He wrote in a follow -up post that “worms crawl for their pets to save them.”

Musk said in a previous appearance in the oval office with Trump that Dog “will not strike 1000” and that he wanted to correct it when he made mistakes. Doge recently started publishing examples of spending cuts, but an amendment was made to the list after asking questions about its accuracy after one decade was included as saving $ 8 billion even though it was already $ 8 million.

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On Wednesday cabinet meetingMusk said that the need to make rapid changes in agencies and may make errors in this process due to the volume of federal budget deficit.

“We need to move quickly if we will achieve a deficit of $ 1 trillion in the fiscal year 2026. It requires saving $ 4 billion a day, from now until the end of the year. But we can do this, and we will do so,” Musk said.

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Musk and Trump have already expressed openness to sending “DOGE” to American taxpayers, although Musk later said that reducing the annual deficit of $ 2 trillion should be a priority.

“The general goal here with the Doug team is to help address Huge deficit. “We cannot simply maintain a deficit of $ 2 trillion,” Musk said on Wednesday. Attention to the national religion now goes beyond the spending of the Ministry of Defense. We spend a lot on the Ministry of Defense, but we spend like $ 1 trillion on the interest. “

“If this continues, the country will go and become a reality in reality. It is not an optional thing. It’s essential. This is why I am here, take a lot of threats, and get a lot of threats to death, by the way,” Musk said.

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“If we do not do this, America will go. For this reason it must be done. I am sure of this stage … we can already find $ 1 trillion of savings. “This will be about 15 % of the budget of 7 trillion dollars, and this can not only do it with the support of everyone in this room,” he said.