US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would appoint Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he is elected to office in November.

“At the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement… I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York.

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    5 hours ago

    Government is inefficient if you elect people who believe it is and set out to prove it.

    People who say “run things like a business” don’t know shit. Every job I’ve worked at has had tremendous waste, but no one was looking closely because it’s private.

    Like, right wing nut jobs would lose their shit if they learned a government office was buying fresh fruits for workers but most of it was going bad and being thrown out. But that happened every day for a while.

    There’s also been a lot of “why is this machine still running? How much are we paying AWS for this??”

    There’s also been a lot of "we don’t need to do accessibility on our website because most of our customers don’t care, and no one’s making us ".