Trump pledges to reduce billions of dollars from US defense spending

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Donald Trump said he would seek to reduce billions of dollars from the Pentagon budget as the next big goal in the effort led by Elon Musk to reduce spending by US government agencies.

In an interview on Sunday, Trump’s support for Musk’s costs through the so -called “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” even when it faces increasing setbacks in the courts and allegations from Democrats as it exceeds its powers.

Trump said Musk was “great” and “great help” in searching for the federal government for possible spending discounts so far. He pointed out that the Ministry of Defense, which amounts to an annual budget of about 800 billion dollars, will be the following in the scenes of billionaire.

“Let’s check the army. We will find billions of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. You know, people elected me in that.”

The potential role of Musk in roaming the Pentagon for savings has already sparked concerns about the potential conflict of interests, given that his Spacex and its branch in Starlink have contracts with the government.

But Mike Valle, Trump’s National Security Adviser, cleaned those concerns in an interview with NBC. “All the appropriate protection walls,” said to prevent any conflict, although it has not provided more details.

“The American people said enough, enough with bloating, waste and debt,” Waltz said. “We need wonderful minds and we need business leaders to go there and fix the Pentagon’s acquisition,” he said.

With Musk in a leadership role, the second Trump administration has moved strongly to grinding some federal programs and agencies to stop.

On one of the MUSK setback on Saturday, a federal judge in New York temporarily prevented his team’s efforts to reach data pushing the US Treasury, saying that it may lead to the detection of sensitive personal information that might cause “irreplaceable damage.”

Democrats were increasingly crying.

“This is the most dangerous constitutional crisis the country has faced, and certainly since Wreptgate,” Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator of Connecticut, told ABC on Sunday.

“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. This is the evacuation of democracy.”

The most difficult federal agencies include the United States Agency for International Development, which runs external aid and the financial consumer protection office, whose employees have informed on Saturday by his Acting Director, Russell, to stop all their activities, including investigations and supervision. Trump also pledged to eliminate the Ministry of Education, which has long been a target for conservative inconvenience.

Republicans in Congress stood alongside Trump and Misk, where they moved to stop a wide range of federal programs, although the batch has undermined the constitutional role of the legislators in declaring spending.

Mike Turner, a Republican in Ohio, said to ABC that the Trump administration needed to take a “critical vision” of our spending because the country’s financial path is “not sustainable.” But he also said that musk could move brilliantly.

“He needs, in a more professional way, to communicate with the American public,” Terner said.