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Former President Donald J. Trump is serious about reforming Washington and said that he plans to create a “government efficiency commission” and put Elon Musk in charge of auditing the bloated federal government.

The Republican nominee delivered remarks at The Economic Club of New York on Thursday, telling business leaders that if he’s elected to a second term, the X owner will be tabbed to head up the audit and make recommendations for reforms, a proposal that will have leftists shrieking in rage.

“At the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement, that’s nice, smart guy, he knows what he’s doing, he knows what he’s doing, very much appreciated,” Trump said. “I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.”

“We need to do it, can’t go on the way we are now,” he added to applause. “And Elon, because he’s not very busy, has agreed to head that task force…if he has the time, but he’s a good one to do it.”

“In 2022, fraud and improper payments alone cost taxpayers an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars. As the first order of business, this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months,” Trump pledged.

“This will save trillions of dollars, trillions. It’s massive. For the same service that you have right now, trillions of dollars is wasted, and gone and nobody knows where it went,” he said.

“This is badly needed,” Musk said in a post to X, sharing a video of Trump’s announcement.

Musk earlier highlighted a Wall Street Journal article outlining what Trump planned to say in his speech, including creating the commission.

“I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises,” the billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO wrote. “No pay, no title, no recognition is needed.”

Musk has previously expressed a willingness to be a part of a Trump administration that is shaping up to be a dream team.

Musk also made it clear what’s at stake in this election, the most important in the nation’s history when it comes to what America will be in the future.

“We delivered an economic miracle, which Kamala and Joe turned into an economic disaster, just like they turned the border and indeed the whole world into a catastrophic surrender. Starting on day one, Kamala launched a war on American energy and orchestrated a nation-wrecking border invasion with illegal aliens pouring in from countries all over the world,” Trump also told the audience.

“This election will decide whether we reward Kamala Harris with re-election and four more years of crime, economic calamity, and international humiliation, or whether we change that direction and once again build the greatest economy in the history of the world, which we had during the Trump administration,” he said.

Trump told the audience that the Democrat nominee “fundamentally rejects freedom and embraces Marxism, communism and fascism.”

“She is promising communist price controls, wealth confiscation, energy annihilation, reparations. The largest tax increase ever imposed, and mass amnesty and citizenship for tens of millions of migrants who will consume trillions of dollars in federal benefits and destroy Social Security and Medicare,” he added.

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