Republican White House candidate Donald Trump unveiled a plan Thursday to install billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk at the head of a government efficiency commission to eliminate “trillions” of dollars in wasteful spending.
Trump told business executives at a speech in New York that Musk, who came up with the idea, would oversee a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” in a second Trump administration.
The former president is in a knife-edge battle for a second term against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who is spending the coming days in Pennsylvania to prepare for the rivals’ high-stakes televised presidential debate on Tuesday.
“As the first order of business, this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York.
“This will save trillions of dollars.”
Staking out a distinct economic blueprint from Harris’s ahead of the November 5 election, …