Trump signs executive order to keep downsizing government workforce
During all three of his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp."
In his second term, he is definitely keeping that promise.
Newsmax reports, "President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce.
The order aims to empower Elon Musk to cut even more pork-barrel spending by America's federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk admitted that there are some good people in the federal bureaucracy, but said that these people need to be held accountable.
Government workers have their salaries paid by America's tax dollars.
It makes sense that they should be held to high standards.
If these people's jobs aren't costing out, it isn't fair to American taxpayers to continue funding the positions.
"The people voted for major government reform, and that's what the people are going to get," Musk said. "What's what democracy is all about."
Musk's comments marked his first time taking questions from reporters since officially joining Donald Trump's administration "as a special government employee with sprawling influence over federal agencies."
Elon Musk is the world's richest person and owns X, the website formerly known as Twitter.
The White House released a fact sheet on the executive order: "Agencies will undertake plans for large-scale reductions in force and determine which agency components (or agencies themselves) may be eliminated or combined because their functions aren't required by law."
As evidence that Donald Trump is NOT okay with more frivolous spending, he has ordered that agencies "hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart from federal service."
However, there are exceptions to that rule for immigration and law enforcement.
Trump has offered a buyout to federal workers, and 65,000 of them have taken him up on his offer so far.
