Donald Trump has indicated that Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Performance” (DOGE) is working without a protector when he has access to US private information “very easily” and on the Pentagon Prepare to attack.
The US president was speaking White House Press Conference Japanese Prime Minister Shigro, along with Esba, but most questions focused on Musk’s clean mission, which has rooted the garbage in the federal government, which has led to mismanagement in Washington.
Trump suggested that he had given a freeborn backliness and showed blurred details about the details. Asked why the DEGE needs access to the Treasury Payment System, including Americans’ social security numbers, domestic addresses and bank accounts, he replied: “Well, that doesn’t happen, but it is too much. We do not have good safety in our country.
The president claimed that he was “very proud” on Musk’s Young and the “very smart” software engineers team. He said: “They are doing this on my insistence. It will be very easy to do, but to find corruption, we have to separate some of these things and we have got great corruption.
Dodge has not yet provided any evidence of corruption in USAID, which has been shut down without the acquisition of the Congress, or other agencies. As a result of its intense and severe attack on the government, legal action and streets have faced protests.
He was pressured to see if he had anything that had told Musk that he could not touch, Trump just gave a vague answer. “Well, we didn’t discuss it much,” he admitted. “I’ll ask them to go here, go there. He does It has found a very capable group of people. Very, very, very, very capable.
“They know what they are doing. They will ask questions, and they will immediately see when someone is tied to the tongue whether they are either crooked or do not know what they are doing. We have very smart people.
Trump confirmed that he had asked Musk – the richest man in the world – to review the department’s widespread defense spending, which has a proposed budget of $ 2025 850 billion. “I have instructed him to check education, check the Pentagon, the army. And you know, sadly, you will find some things that are very bad.”
But he added: “Social security will not be touched. It will only be strengthened … We have illegal immigrants about social security and we are going to know who they are and to them. Will remove
The Democrats in the Congress are seeking investigations from the Treasury Department that the Musk team was given the government’s payment system, which “threats to the economy and national security, and the protection of Americans’ privacy and tax data.” Possible violation “is cited.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Widen Written in a letter To the Inspectors General: “Threats of the economy and national security, and in view of the possibility of violating the privacy of Americans and the laws of Americans lashed by Mr Musk and his team, and his team’s federal payment Access to the main systems of … We request that you use the matter.
On Friday, Trump also said that Dodge should restore a staff member who resigned from a newspaper report after being linked to an open general racist social media account.
First, JD Venus, Vice President, said that 25 -year -old Marco Elise should be brought back and that “journalists who try to destroy people” should be blamed. Asked if he supported Venice’s ideology, Trump told reporters that he was not aware of the specific matter but “I am with the vice president”.
Immediately the Musk. Later, who had polled his X -followers on this question, Posted: “It will be brought back. Making a mistake is a human being, forgiving the Divine. “
