President Donald Trump addressed Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency's effort to reign in government spending during an interview with Fox set to air in full before the Super Bowl.
Ordinarily, when there’s talk in Washington about a thorough audit of Defense Department spending, the push is coming from independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. With this in mind, it was all the more notable to see Donald Trump embracing the same line. Reuters reported: The Republican added that he expects Musk to find “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.” Why does he assume that the Pentagon is wasting “hundreds of billions of dollars”? He didn’t say.
If so, that leaves us with a different kind of question: The White House wants a defense contractor to do an audit of the Defense Department? The New York Times summarized the obvious conflict of interest: Common sense suggests that if officials are going to conduct an audit of the Department of Defense’s finances, they’d send professional auditors. Trump, on the other hand, says he wants an audit of the Department of Defense’s finances, and he’s says he’s sending a defense contractor.
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