“I’m going to tell him [Elon Musk] very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education,” Trump said in a pre-recorded interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier set to air before the Super Bowl on Sunday. “He’s going to find the same thing. Then I’m going to tell him to go check the military. Let’s check the military. We’ll find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And, you know, the people elected me on that.”
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Trump appointed Elon Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency with the goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. During the excerpt of his Sunday interview, Trump said Musk has been “terrific” with his work to cut government spending.
The president has promised to abolish the Education…
