Congratulations, Donald Trump. You found the one person more repulsive than J.D. Vance to give a key role in your hoped-for second administration: Elon Musk. And other than yourself or Bernie Madoff, who would be less trusted to head a commission designed to pay for billionaires’ tax cuts by cutting services for the rest of us than the right-wing liar and erratic extremist from apartheid South Africa?
The commission's job is ostensibly to audit federal spending and regulations. But you don’t need to be a budget expert to understand its real mission:
From The Washington Post, with my emphpases:
Trump said the new commission would save “trillions of dollars — trillions. It’s massive. For the same service we have right now.” Budget experts have said it is possible a commission could identify tens of billions or possibly hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending cuts, but that it is not credible to imagine the commission cutting trillions of dollars without severely affecting federal services.
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