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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump says Musk will be targeting military and education next: ‘Everything’s fertile’

President Donald Trump on Friday said he’s letting the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency dig into the budgets of the Pentagon and the federal Department of Education to find wasteful spending in need of cutting.

Trump told reporters at a joint press conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba that he’d personally instructed Musk to look into his two latest targets.

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