Elon Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency team at the Pentagon to meet defense staff

Trump had said defense bureau was high on list of world’s richest man’s federal budget and personnel slashing team

Members of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.

Donald Trump has said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk’s government budget and personnel slashing team and that he expects the tech billionaire to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse in the department.

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