Former President Donald Trump said on Monday evening that he would “love” for Elon Musk — the owner of X and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company — to work on a new government commission dedicated to eliminating wasteful government spending.
Trump made the remark during a conversation with Musk on X Spaces while the two were discussing the root cause of inflation and how to solve the problem.
“Inflation comes from government overspending, because the checks never bounce when it’s written by the government,” Musk said. “So if the government spends far more than it brings in, that increases the money supply, and if the money supply increases faster than the rate of goods and services, that’s inflation.”
Musk, highlighting the need to reduce spending, then proposed a Government Efficiency Commission that would evaluate all of the government’s spending and cut out spending that was not sensible so that the government can get back to living within…