WASHINGTON – President Trump at a press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister said Elon Musk As they aim to cut federal spending by $2 trillion, there is a wide range of latitudes that can be reached to federal departments and agencies.
He said he asked Musk to “just” review all federal agencies.
“Pentagon, education, almost everything,” the president said. “We experience everything.”
Trump told Mask where to go and told him he would go to the agency.
“I choose a target and say, ‘I’ll come in,'” the president said.
In response to a reporter’s question about why DOGE needs to access American personal information such as bank accounts and social security numbers, the president supports Doge’s efforts while showing that it doesn’t require data. It looked like that.
“Well, that’s not, but they get it very easily. It means we don’t have very good security in our country,” Trump said. However, Doge has gained access to information because the president’s order is permitted, not because of security lapses.
He added that Doge will look into trillions of federal funds “probably illegally” spent. He said he is proud of the work “this group of young people” is doing.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the president scrutinized Marco Erez, a resigned staff member of Doge. The Journal found a post from last July that read, “Just for the record, I was racist before it became cool.” In September, another post on X read, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. I will normalize the hatred of India.” CBS News has not confirmed the existence of any accounts or posts. The journal said Elez did not respond to multiple requests for comments.
Vice President JD Vance said on Erez’s employment in response to the X polls, “I clearly disagree with some of Erez’s posts, but stupid social media activities should ruin a child’s life.” I don’t think we should reward journalists. Who will bring people back?
Trump said he’s not familiar with the details, but if Vance supports him in getting his employees back, “I’m with the Vice President.”
Shortly after the press conference, Musk said Erez would be rehired. “He’ll be brought back,” he wrote to X. “False is human and forgives God.”
The president was also asked if he intends to fire the attack on the Capitol, an FBI agent who worked on the January 6, 2021 investigation.
“No, but some of them were corrupted, so I’ll fire some of them,” he replied.
Following Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Isbauba, the president praised Isba and showed Japan would be subject to new tariffs in a press conference where he had warm words about his ties with the United States.
“We have tariffs, mostly mutual tariffs,” Trump said, and those will be announced early next week. “Because I think that’s the only fair way to do that, and then no one’s going to hurt,” he added.
The president said that too Nippon Steel Contract to Buy Our Steel It will be restructured as an investment rather than a complete purchase.
“They agreed to invest a lot in US steel rather than owning it. That’s very exciting,” the president said. “And we’re going to meet up with Nissan, the head of a very wonderful company, who is Nissan, who is the head of Nissan. They’ll settle the details,” Trump said (he said ‘Nissan’). It seemed like this, but Japan is the name of Japan, but it is a Japanese iron company.
Isba said Japanese technology will be provided and “better quality products will be manufactured in the US.”
The president also announced that Japan will adopt a “recorded number” of new American cargo of liquefied natural gas or LNG.
In his opening remarks, the president said, “I am confident that the precious alliance between our two countries and the other countries will continue to flourish for a long time.” He said, “Military cooperation between the US and Japan is one of our closest security partnerships and one of the closest in the world.”
Trump said the two leaders were “long and difficult” about the relationship between economy and trade, and Japan’s ingenious investment in the US is eager to invest in the US as well. He said Japan would “compete.”
Through the translators, Isba said their arguments were “frank” and “productive.” The two leaders said they would issue a joint Japanese-US statement that would serve as compasses. “I look forward to working with President Trump. I look forward to being extremely respected as President Trump enters a new golden age of relations between Japan and the United States,” the Japanese leader said. I said that.
Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister discuss steel, tariffs, automobile issues and national security
Before the press conference, former President Joe Biden was forced to win US steel among the biggest issues that emerged during Trump’s meeting with the Japanese prime minister despite his merger and Trump’s rejection. There was a contract for Nippon Steel Previous pledge Block transactions.
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Trump told reporters on Friday that he hadn’t changed his mind to US steel, but sources previously said they would allow Japan to complete its $14.1 billion acquisition. He said he was considering it. Trump told reporters Friday that he and the Japanese Prime Minister will discuss the US steel trade.
Trump met with CEO of American Steel David Barritt at the White House on Thursday. Biden administration US steel sales blocked Last month, I went to Nippon Steel. US Steel and Nippon Steel have filed a lawsuit over the Biden administration’s decision to stop Nippon Steel from taking over its Pittsburgh-based rivals.
“The United States is proud of its long and close alliance with Japan, and it is time for a new era of US Japanese relations to bring peace and prosperity to the Indo-Pacific.” “Our two countries are all about our military affairs. We will continue to work together to stop local threats through our capabilities.”
Trump’s appearance with the Japanese Prime Minister will be in this week’s second meeting with foreign leaders and a joint press conference. On Tuesday, Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said the US wanted to do it. Please control “Owned” on the Gaza Strip.
Aaron Navarro,
With Jennifer Jacobs
I contributed to this report.
