04/05/2025
President Trump on Friday said he will direct Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to next look into the Education Department and Pentagon. “He will be looking at education pretty quickly and he will be looking at military too,” the president said in a press conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Mr. Musk effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), removing its sign from its headquarters and placing virtually all its employees on leave. “I’m very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but very smart people, they’re doing,” the president said. “They’re doing it at my insistence. It would be a lot easier not to do it, but we have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption.” President Trump said Mr. Musk will not be looking into Social Security and Medicare, which make up the bulk of U.S. government spending. “We’re going to strengthen our Social Security,” he said. “We’re not going to touch it, other than to make it stronger.”
