Musk’s cuts
Trump to Musk: scalpel instead of ax
Updated on 06.03.2025 – 10:57 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
On behalf of President Trump, billionaire Musk will fire thousands of federal employees. Trump now emphasizes that it is important that the best and most productive.
The billionaire Elon Musk fires thousands of officials in the United States as the head of a savings body, now President Donald Trump is calling up. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump’s Gremium Doge (Department of Government Efficiency) praised as a “incredible success”.
He pointed out the ministries to work with Doge. Precision is important, who should stay, who should go, wrote Trump. “We say scalpel instead of ax.” Trump emphasized that the cuts are important. But it is also important to keep the best and most productive employees.
Trump later explained in the White House that he wished the ministers and heads of the authorities take a closer look at who they need and who not. “I don’t want big cuts where a lot of good people are released. I want the cabinet members to keep the good people. And the people who do not do a good job who are unreliable do not appear to work and so on, these people can be released.” The ministers and Elon would watch people, and if the heads of the authorities could shorten, it was good. “And if they don’t shorten, then Elon will shorten.”
Trump said there were many people in the authorities who did not work, many salary checks even went to employees who no longer lived. You would find that all out. “We cannot use this type of fat,” said Trump. Where 20,000 people are needed, there are 120,000. His government had already saved hundreds of billions.
Trump commissioned Musk to reduce government spending and gave him practically free hand. For this purpose, the Savarium Doge, which is connected to the White House, was formed. In Trump’s name, Musk drives the conversion of the state apparatus – including mass detections.
