Donald Trump declared that he would create a Government Efficiency Commission to audit the entire government should he win November’s election.
At the suggestion of Elon Musk, Trump said he 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 we need to do.”
“And Elon, because he’s not very busy, has agreed to head that task force,” Trump added. “Be interesting if he has the time. That would be a good one to do it.”
Trump further noted that in 2022, “fraud and improper payments alone cost taxpayers an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars.”
“As the first order of business, this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months,” he said. “This will save trillions of dollars. Trillions. It’s massive. For the same service that you have right now.”
Economist Steve Moore recently said that establishing a government efficiency commission should “be a high priority.”
“We have a lot of spending and waste to cut if we’re going to extend the Trump tax cuts or do these other things he wants to do,” he said. “You’ll have to find redundancies and inefficiencies and obsolescence, but the good news is we haven’t done this in a couple decades.”
