Trump has portrayed Musk in their Fox News interview as a “leader” at the heart of their plan to reduce public spending, despite a deposit of justice a day earlier, minimize the extent of the authority of Musk.
When Fox News host Sean Hannity described the billionaire as Musk technology like Trump’s “technological support”, echoing a t-shirt that Musk wore, the president corrected him.
“He’s much more than that. He does it. He is a leader, “said Trump in the registered interview.
Trump described Musk as a kind of execution for his decrees which he said “do not do” when they are distributed to government offices.
“He would take this executive decree that I had signed and he would have going to the agency to be,” said Trump, referring to Musk and others working for the Ministry of the ‘Government efficiency (DOGE).
Trump imitated the voices of the workers of Doge speaking to the employees of the career government: “When do you do it?” Do it! Do it! ‘And a guy who may not want to do it, all of a sudden, he signs, “he said.
Musk and Trump, sitting side by side, spent much of the joint interview to talk about cost reduction efforts that Trump has attributed to Musk. The interview inaugurated few new fields, but marked a very public sign that Trump and Musk kept a united front while Doge remains under the fire of prosecution, street demonstrations and Democrats in the Congress.
The Ministry of Justice, in a legal file yesterday for a legal action concerning the extent of Musk’s power, said that Musk had no authority in his role with Doge.
“Musk” has no real or formal authority to make government decisions “- including personnel decisions in individual agencies”, DOJ lawyers said to courtciting A statement under oath by Joshua Fisher, director of the White House administration office. Musk “has only the capacity to advise the president or to communicate the directives of the president, like the other senior managers of the White House,” the lawyers wrote.
The trial in question was brought by the Democratic Attorney General and maintains that Musk exercises government power beyond what is legally or constitutionally authorized to have. A federal judge today refused to stop immediately Doge’s activity, even if she called her “disturbing”.