Fraud and abuse?
Trump releases Musk to the next institutions
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have almost dissolved the development agency USAID with a brutal savings program. In an interview, the Republican announces that the entrepreneur will soon be targeting the next institutions. Supposedly there is massive fraud and abuse.
According to US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk does not personally benefit from his work with the controversial cost reduction committee Doge. “Whether I trust Elon? Oh, he does not make an advantage from it,” the Republican told Fox News in an interview. Rather, he wondered how the Tech billionaire even brings the time for his work in the committee. “He is deepened in it,” said Trump.
According to the development authority USAID, Musk should next the Ministry of Education and then the military. According to Trump, he will “find hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse”.
According to the US government, the committee led by Musk, officially called “Department for Government Efficiency” (Doge) (Doge), is intended to uncover a waste of money and corruption in the US authorities. Since Trump's taking office, there have been large -scale efforts to relieve as many state employees as possible. Critics warn that it is less about savings than to place loyal civil servants in the lower ranks of the administration.
There is resistance to the procedure. Several lawsuits have already been submitted – especially because of the concern that Musk and his committee could be given access to personal data. However, there are concerns whether Musk and Trump will adhere to judicial decisions at all.
Expert criticizes self -control
For his new role, the world's richest man in the world has received the official status of a “special government employee”. Officially, he must not work for the government for the government within a 365-day period. In addition, it is prohibited “special government employees” to participate in decisions that affect their own financial interests. However, the White House explained that Musk itself made sure that there are no conflicts of interest in his austerity measures in the US government.
Expert Donald Kettl, a former professor of the University of Maryland, said Bloomberg: “I don't know any other case, nowhere in which a person could decide for himself whether there is a conflict of interest.” In itself, this is already a conflict of interest.
Musk is, among other things, the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the space company SpaceX. Tesla is the focus of several investigations by the NHTSA traffic safety authority, and SpaceX starts rockets for the US government, including the Ministry of Defense. In addition, the Aviation Supervision FAA repeated starts from SpaceX according to technical problems. According to media reports, many of the Doge employees come from Musk's environment.
