The rich man Elon Musk, who is the director of Tesla, SpaceX and the former Twitter, will be put at the head of a new US ministry, which will reduce the bureaucracy in the US government.
Donald Trump, the country’s newly elected president, stated this, according to the Reuters news agency, in a press release on Wednesday night.
Elon Musk gave his support to Donald Trump during the election campaign. He also began giving away millions of dollars in a lottery to those who signed a petition he started.
Elon Musk will lead the ministry in collaboration with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy also ran for president, but was rejected as the Republican candidate for the election in favor of Donald Trump, who thus beat the Democrats’ Kamala Harris last week.
Musk and Ramaswamy “must lay the groundwork for my administration to dismantle the government bureaucracy, cut unnecessary laws, stop the waste of money and restructure the federal agencies,” Trump said.
Trump was elected in the US presidential election on Tuesday last week.
On the night of Wednesday, he put forward a long list of names that will be given a place in his administration.
It is, among other things, the TV host Pete Hegseth, who will be the next US defense minister. The current governor of the state of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, will become the secretary of homeland security.
John Ratcliffe, who has a past as the director of the US National Intelligence Service (NSA), will serve as the future director of the CIA, which is the US intelligence service that primarily deals with foreign countries.
Donald Trump and his incoming vice president, JD Vance, will be sworn in on January 20.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
