Trump and Musk want to make government 'good stewards' of taxpayer dollars, White House press secretary says

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt is defending President Donald Trump's efforts to marque the authorities "good stewards" of payer dollars arsenic disapproval implicit Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s relation successful the Department of Government Efficiency pours successful from Democrats.  

Musk sparked disapproval from Democrats aft DOGE effectively unopen down USAID connected Monday. This enactment is 1 of galore the medication has taken to chopped "waste and abuse" retired of the national government, Leavitt said.

"What President Trump and Elon Musk and this full medication is trying to bash is marque our bloated bureaucracy present successful Washington tally similar a profitable business, and each bureau has been tasked with going enactment by enactment and ensuring that the American taxpayer's wealth is aligned with the American people's interests," Leavitt told "America Reports" connected Thursday. 

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with Donald Trump during a run lawsuit astatine the Butler Farm Show, Oct. 5, 2024, successful Butler, Pa.  ((Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

The property caput explained that the medication is offering a commonsense solution to "a decades-old occupation of bloated bureaucracy, waste, fraud and abuse." 

This determination comes arsenic much than 40,000 national authorities employees person agreed to Trump’s buyout offer, an effort to bring national employees backmost into the office.  

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 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk ticker the motorboat of the sixth trial formation of the SpaceX Starship rocket connected Nov. 19, 2024 successful Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

"President Trump continues to present connected the promises that helium made to the American radical connected the run trail, and going done the national authorities enactment by enactment and making this authorities much businesslike is 1 of those priorities and 1 of those promises that President Trump made." 

Leavitt ensured that Trump is "wholeheartedly committed to spending cuts" and "making the authorities much efficient."