Republican candidate Donald Trump has announced that if he wins, Elon Musk will head a commission to audit the federal administration and implement reforms to reduce the size of the state and make it more “efficient.”
Just as Javier Milei did with Federico “the Colossus” Sturzenegger, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced this Thursday that, if he wins, will entrust to the billionaire owner of X (ex-Twitter) and founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, lead a reform of the public administration.
In a speech in New York where he explained his economic program, Trump announced that Musk has already accepted the mission of carrying out, if he wins the elections, an audit of the entire federal administration, now in the hands of the Democratic Party.
Actually, the idea It came from the owner of Tesla himself, who suggested the Republican candidate create “a government efficiency commission charged with conducting a comprehensive financial and management audit of the entire federal government”.
This is not the first time that the right on the continent has commissioned a “specialist” to carry out a project of this kind. The immediate antecedent is that of Argentina. Economist Federico Sturzenegger was chosen by President Javier Milei to head the new Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the Statewhose mission is the “reform and modernization of the State with a view to resizing and reducing public spending and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizations that make up the National Public Administration.”
Sturzenegger’s choice was not a coincidence. The economist and former president of the Central Bank during the Macri administration is the ideologist of decree 70/2023 and the Ley Bases approved this year in Congress. Both initiatives modify and eliminate dozens of laws that aim to reduce the State to a minimum, with the promise that a less regulated market will create more wealth and better jobs. Everything remains to be seen.
The same direction seems to be going proposal Republican Donald Trump. In his speech he explained to the Economic Club of New York that “This commission will develop an action plan to completely eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months.”“This plan will save billions of dollars,” he promised.
His announcements did not stop there. He reiterated, like Milei, that will cut taxes and will eliminate ten official regulations. Finally, he pledged to make the United States “the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.”
Elon Musk threatened to ask for the confiscation of Brazilian assets
The South African billionaire Elon Musk He issued a harsh warning against the Government of Brazil, headed by the president Lula da Silvadue to the suspension of the social network X and the confiscation of assets of SpaceX imposed by the Supreme Court. “I hope Lula enjoys traveling on commercial flights,” he said.
The tech mogul, owner of the social network, threatened on Monday to seize Brazilian government assets in response to the court order issued by the highest court, which confirmed in the last few hours the decision of one of its judges, Alexandre de Moraes, to suspend X for non-compliance with court orders.
Source: Ambito
