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Donald Trump says he’ll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government

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Former President Donald Trump says that if reelected, he’ll create a government efficiency task force — and that Elon Musk has already agreed to lead it. During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would conduct a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make recommendations for “drastic reforms.”

Musk’s companies are recipients of government spending, with records showing Tesla has received nearly 13 percent of the EV charging awards granted as part of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law, according to Politico. Meanwhile, SpaceX has received billions in federal funding since its inception.

As we noted after Musk endorsed Trump in July, that came despite…

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