Donald Trump today reiterated his full confidence in Ilon Musk, to whom he has commissioned federal state spending cuts, with the US president declaring that his billionaire close ally will assist ” Pentagon.

“I will tell him very soon, maybe within 24 hours, to go to check the Ministry of Education … Then I’ll go, go to the army. Let’s check the army. ” “We will find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and split. And you know, that’s what people chose me to do, “Trump told Fox News, according to an excerpt from the interview he gave. The entire interview will be broadcast later before Super Bowl.

“Ilon Musk has helped me a lot, he is unlikely,” the Republican president continued, adding that he will soon be asked to review the budgets of the Pentagon and the Ministry of Education, as he said at a press conference on Friday.

The Pentagon budget reaches $ 1 trillion a year. In December, former President Joe Biden signed a bill, approved defensive costs of $ 895 billion for the financial year on September 30.

Asked if he trusts Musk to cut the “waste” in the State fairly, as the Republican president and the richest man in the world think – Trump said that Musk and his business do not benefit financially from the job he is doing in the job Doge. “It doesn’t win anything,” Trump said. “I wonder how it can spend time. He likes it. “

For his part, the US National Security Adviser. Mike Walts implied that Pentagon’s shipbuilding works could be a area of ​​particular interest to Doge.

“There is a lot we have to look at in shipbuilding, which is in absolute mess,” Walts said in an interview with NBC today.

After disrupting the US Service of International Humanitarian Aid (USAID), Musk will therefore continue his raid on the fields of education and the Armed Forces. The federal government’s services are targeted by the Musk Doge Committee, which is now already analyzing data from the Ministry of Education.

People who make up the Doge Musk team have recently gained access to the US Treasury Payment System, which distributes billions of dollars from the federal state funds. Federal judge yesterday in Manhattan, with his ruling, frozen this access to Musk and his team, citing a risk of publicizing, sensitive and confidential information in an inappropriate manner.

Critics say that all these Doge moves are probably illegal, at risk of disclosing confidential information and in practice destroy entire services without the approval of Congress.

Democrats condemn these Musk movements with the blessings of Trump, with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, talking about an “attack on the Constitution” today.