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President Donald Trump has declared that Elon Musk will lead efforts to expose large-scale fraud and waste in federal agencies.
US President-elect Donald Trump is joined by Tesla and SpaceX CEO and proposed co-chair of the DOGE commission Elon Musk, and Vice President-elect JD Vance at the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland, US. (IMAGE: REUTERS)
President Donald Trump said in remarks airing Sunday that Elon Musk, who is presiding over a purge of US government jobs, will help find “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” in federal agencies.
Speaking in a Fox News interview set to air before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people “want me to find” waste and that Musk, the world’s richest man and the leader of the president’s cost-cutting efforts, will help “find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.”
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