Musk has spoken of the "gigantic bureaucracy" in the US and promised to make the government more efficient and to seek to reduce the number of federal agencies. Trump is preliminarily winning the electoral vote.
American entrepreneur, founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk said that he will seek to reduce the number of federal agencies in the United States if Republican Donald Trump wins the presidential election and gives him a position in his administration. Musk said this while speaking on Tucker Carlson's online show from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Musk said he wanted to help Trump make the government more efficient. “We have a huge bureaucracy, we have overregulation. We need to let America’s builders build,” he explained.
The entrepreneur openly supported Trump during the presidential election and spoke at his campaign rallies on several occasions. Musk was one of its main sponsors (Forbes estimates his fortune at $264.7 billion).
Trump himself said in September that he intended to create a commission on government efficiency, which he would appoint Musk to head. The entrepreneur, according to the former president, agreed to head the body that would conduct a "complete financial and operational audit of the entire federal government" and develop a plan to eliminate "fraud and improper payments." Musk set a goal of reducing US federal budget spending by $2 trillion.
Interconnected Capital founder Kevin Xu told Bloomberg that Musk will be a key intermediary between the U.S. and China on many issues related to technology and trade. According to Derek Scissors, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Musk is “extremely pro-China,” and there is a pattern to his relationship with Beijing that Chinese authorities will use to try to influence the Trump administration.
According to preliminary data from Fox News, Trump has 248 electoral votes to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' 216 (270 needed to win). The Associated Press reports 247 votes to 210, respectively.