Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk join U.S. President Donald Trump in an executive order signed in Washington, D.C. on February 11, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House ( Donald Trump) delivered a speech.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. government needs to “delete the entire institution” driven by cost and efficiency, tech billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk was asked Thursday about him as Donald Whether changes implemented by part of the Trump administration will continue to exceed the presidency.
“I think we really need to remove the entire institution, rather than leaving a part of it behind… like leaving a weed,” Musk said. “If you don’t remove the roots of the weeds, then the weeds are easy to come back,” he said. But if you remove the roots of the weeds – it won’t stop the weeds from going back, but it will make the weeds more difficult.
Musk also founded SpaceX and owned the social media platform X, commenting on video links with video links at Dubai’s annual World Government Summit, Omar Sultan O’Hare, United Arab Emirates’ AI Minister for Artificial Intelligence O’Mar Sultan O’Hare Part of the conversation held by Omar Sultan Al Al Olama. .
“So we have to really remove the entire agency, many of them,” Musk continued. “This is not to say that in some new governments, bureaucracy will not increase with bureaucracy, but it will be from low Much benchmark. So it’s definitely a step in the right direction.”
He added: “There is nothing forever, but I think we can greatly strengthen the foundation of America.”
Trump appointed South African-born engineers and tech entrepreneurs as “special government employees” and heads the New Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) under the government. Musk has been proposing the goal of improving government efficiency and reducing bureaucracy and regulations, saying Thursday that such efforts could be reduced by $1 trillion by 2026.
Musk has brought the axe to USAID, the international humanitarian and development arm of the U.S. government, which is essentially the axe that addresses most employees and freezes their funds, and suddenly changes are affecting millions of people around the world, especially It’s in a poor country.
The Trump administration said in early February that the United States Agency for International Development would close its own agency and move under the State Department.
This developing story is being updated.
