Musk intensifies government spending attack with push to cut all regulations
The tech billionaire calls USAid, the government conduit of international aid programmes, ‘evil’
Elon Musk has proposed a “wholesale removal of regulations” in an intensification of his crusade to slash US federal government spending.
On a call aired on X, the social media platform he owns, the multibillionaire entrepreneur said regulations should be “gone” as vocal opposition grew against his mission as Donald Trump’s enforcer as the head of a newly created “department of government efficiency” (Doge).
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