TRUMP: “We would not let Elon Musk do that segment or look in that area if we thought there was a lack of transparency or a conflict of interest … He’s a successful guy — that’s why we want him doing this!”

Reuters’s Jeff Mason: “USAID has been one of your main targets. Are you concerned at all that some of the cuts or that shutting that agency altogether may lead to diseases or other bigger problems starting in other countries that then come to the United States?”

Elon Musk: “Yeah, so that’s an interesting example. So that’s something where we work closely with the State Department and Secretary Rubio. And we have, for example, turned on funding for Ebola prevention and for HIV prevention… We are moving fast, so we all make mistakes, but we also fix the mistakes very quickly.”

ABC’s Rachel Scott: “Do you view it as a worthy cause? USAID?”

Musk: “I think that there are some worthy things. But— but overall, if you say what is the bang for the buck? I would say it was not very good and there was far too much of what USAID was doing was influencing— influencing elections in ways that I think were dubious and do not stand the light of day.”

Q: “How can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you say?”
Elon Musk: “Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.”

Elon Musk: “[W]hat are the two ingredients that are really necessary in order to cut the budget deficit in half from 2 trillion to 1 trillion? And it’s really two things: competence and caring. And if you add competence and caring, you’ll cut the budget deficit in half and— and— and I fully expect to be scrutinized and get, you know, a daily proctology exam, basically. I just camp out there, so it’s not like I think I can get away with something. I’ll be scrutinized nonstop— and— but, with the support of the President, we can cut the budget deficit in half from 2 trillion to 1.

And then with deregulation, because there’s a lot of sort of regulations that don’t ultimately serve the public good, we need to free— free the builders of America to build. And if we do that, that means I think we can get the economic growth to be maybe 3 or 4%, maybe 5%. And that means, if you can get $1 trillion of economic growth and you can cut the budget deficit by a trillion between now and next year, there is no inflation.

There’s no inflation in ’26 and if the government is not borrowing as much, it means that interest costs decline. So everyone’s mortgage, their car payment, their credit card bills, their student debt, their monthly payments drop. That’s a fantastic scenario for the average American. I mean, imagine they go down the grocery aisle and the prices from one year to the next are the same and their mortgage, all their debt payments dropped. How great is that for the average American?”

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