Trump also commissioned Musk to check the Pentagon budget

On behalf of US President Donald Trump, the Tech billionaire Elon Musk is also to search the US Department of Defense and the military. That said Trump at a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the White House. “We will look at the Ministry of Education, we will even look at our military,” said Trump. He assumes that in the end the waste of trillion dollars will come out.

According to Trump, the US administration through Musk and its cost-reduction committee “Department for Government Efficiency” (Doge) should serve to uncover money waste and corruption in the authorities. Critics believe that it is primarily about filling key positions with line -loving civil servants in the course of its key positions. At the same time, an attempt is made to get rid of severance payments as possible.

A storm of the protest has risen against the procedure of Doge. Complaints, on the other hand, often come from unions. They argue that Doge could not simply view and process sensitive data from millions of Americans. There are still far more sensitive data records on the computers of the Pentagon than in many other ministries.