(New York) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced Thursday that if elected he would task billionaire Elon Musk, to whom he is close, with an “audit” of the government with a view to in-depth “reforms.”
“On the advice of Elon Musk, […] “I will establish a government commission to conduct a comprehensive financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, with a view to making recommendations for drastic reforms,” the former US president told a club of economists and business people in New York.
This is not the first time the 78-year-old Republican speaker and businessman has indicated that he would like to see Mr. Musk at his side in a possible new administration, if he is re-elected on November 5.
But Donald Trump has never been so specific about the tasks he wants to entrust to the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X.
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“We have to do it, we can’t continue like this. And Elon [Musk] agreed to lead this” commission, hammered Donald Trump, who spent more than an hour hammering the program of his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris and the “economic catastrophe” caused according to him by the government of President Joe Biden.
“We are in economic crisis, a failed nation, a nation in serious decline,” said the former American leader, who has been painting the world’s leading power in a negative light for a decade.
Current Vice President Harris and candidate for the election “wants four more years to implement a radical left agenda that poses a fundamental threat to the prosperity of every American family and to America as a whole,” Mr. Trump added.
Developing in a disjointed speech some of the axes of what his economic program would be, he also promised to make “the United States the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.”
As Mr. Trump spoke in New York, less than a week before a highly anticipated Sept. 10 debate with his rival, she arrived in Pennsylvania, perhaps the most crucial state in the presidential election.