Trump’s most powerful consultant described himself as an open book because he took questions from reporters for the first time after he joined the Trump administration
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President Donald Trump’s most powerful consultant Elon Mask on Tuesday revealed a rare public appearance in the White House, acknowledging that he was a mistake and that there would be more mistakes to protect the rapid and comprehensive cuts of the central government.
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Trump praised Musk’s work with his government performance and said that Mask stood beside his young son and had found “shocking” evidence for vain expenses. Republican president Maskin signed an administrative order to expand the influence and reduce the federal labor set.
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The Maskin Toj group is said to include a 24 -year -old Canadian University student in the group
Despite the concerns that he gathered the powerless power with little transparency, Mask described himself as an open book as he took questions from reporters for the first time after joining the Trump administration as a special civil servant. He made fun of his vast influence on federal organizations as “the daily program exam”.
He said that the work of Doji would be shared on its website and the Mask -owned social media site X. However, the Doge website has no information, and the posts on X often do not have many details, which are reduced, and the company has access to.
The White House is moving to limit independent supervision. The Inspector General of the US Agency for International Development was removed after a day, warned that it was almost impossible to monitor $ 8.2 billion humanitarian funds after the Dowj Agency began to remove the agency.
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Mask defended the works of the Tok as “common sense” and “not harsh or serious.”
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“People voted for a big government reform, and that’s what people are going to get,” he said. “This is what democracy is.”
Responding to the question of false statements that the US spends $ 50 million on condoms for condoms, Mask acknowledged that some of his claims about government plans were false.
“Some of the things I say are wrong and they have to be adjusted. So no one can bat 1,000,” he said.
“We are moving fast, so we will do wrong, but we will correct the mistakes too quickly,” the Mask said.
There are some good people in federal bureaucracy, but they should be held accountable. Mask described the employees as “the fourth branch of the selected”, and it had “more power than any representative of the chosen.”
The administrative order signed by Trump, a Doge Representative, must approve almost all new hiring, which is a dramatic coordination of employee administration throughout the federal government.
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“The company will not fill any vacancies for the Tige Committee’s leading professional appointments and if the company does not decide to fill the positions of the leader,” the order said.
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In addition, the management and budget office agencies will need to “hire more than one employees for every four employees”. There will be exceptions when immigration, legal enforcement and public security come.
Agency leaders were advised to plan for “large -scale reduction”. Priority will be given to eliminate unnecessary government functions by law.
Trump and Mask are already postponing federal workers to resign in exchange for financial concessions, although their plan is currently suspended, while a judge reviews its legitimate character. The deferred resignation program is usually described as buying, allowing employees to leave and get paid until September 30. More than 65,000 workers have taken this opportunity, management officials said.
Hundreds of people gathered at a rally on Tuesday from the US Capital in support of federal workers.
Janet Kannelli, a graphic designer of the Energy Department, said he was exhausted by the e -mail of the Employees Management Office that encourages people to take the adjournment project.
She tried to use spam settings to drain the emails, but useless. Kannelli said he had no plans to make the offer.
“From the Get-Go, I don’t believe it,” he said.
Connellie said he was trying to do an important service to the US public.
“It’s very easy to discredit us,” he said.
Others have said that fear and uncertainty have fallen through federal workers.
“They care about their work. They care about their families. They are also concerned about their work and the communities they work, ”said Helen Pottar, a former Environmental Protection Organization employee and current trade union leader in Seattle.
Sen. Sen of the Washington Democratic Party. Potter participated in a press conference conducted by Grandmother Murray.
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Murray said, “Elon Mask and Donald Trump are better than being threatened, intimidated, and pushing out the door.” “These people are going to stay in their work or things are going to start to break,” he said.
A government lawyer, who spoke about an unrighteous situation with the Associated Press because of fear of retaliation, said it was a terrifying time to be a federal worker.
He said people are worried that their phones and computers are being monitored. She is a single mother with a young daughter, and her father asks her to take a safe job in the private sector.
But she suspects in the postponement of the postponement of the postponement and insists that accepting the privilege cannot be prosecuted if they do not pay for the promise of workers.
The idea was crazy.
– Price announced from New York. Associated Press Writers Marta Bellysl, Washington, and Brian Witte in MD at MD, Martha Bellels, Washington.
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