Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is slated to talk astatine President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration rally connected Sunday, according to a caller report.
Musk, who is poised to pb the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) erstwhile Trump takes office, volition supply remarks during Trump's "Make America Great Again Victory Rally" astatine the Capitol One Arena successful Washington, D.C., NBC News reports.
Other speakers connected the docket for the lawsuit see Vice President-elect JD Vance, blimpish media property Megyn Kelly, arsenic good arsenic members of Trump’s contiguous family.
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The Trump modulation squad did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.
Musk, who donated millions of dollars to Trump’s statesmanlike campaign, has cozied up to Trump and spoken astatine authoritative events with the incoming president. For example, Musk delivered remarks astatine a Trump run rally successful October astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City.
Musk is besides expected to power the incoming medication and is spearheading efforts with tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to slash authorities spending nether DOGE.
DOGE, which is not a national authorities agency, aims to eliminate authorities spending, discarded and streamline ratio and operations.
It is seeking to chopped $2 trillion from the national authorities fund done efforts to slash spending, authorities programs and the national workforce.
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However, Musk precocious said eliminating $2 trillion from the national fund mightiness beryllium excessively ambitious, and that it was much realistic to chopped $1 trillion.
"I deliberation we’ll effort for $2 trillion. I deliberation that’s similar the best-case outcome," Musk said during tech commercialized amusement CES this period successful Las Vegas. "But I bash deliberation that you benignant of person to person immoderate overage. I deliberation if we effort for $2 trillion, we’ve got a bully changeable astatine getting $1 [trillion]."