Elon Musk Says He ‘Can't Wait’ to Join Trump Administration

What began as perhaps a slow dance between the Republican presidential candidate and his top Silicon Valley backer now appears to be seriously hotting up, with talk of a possible role for Elon Musk on a Trump commission to combat “government inefficiency.”

For the past few months, Donald Trump has apparently been toying with the idea, should he win the presidency in November, of bringing together top business leaders to consult on whether to ax potentially thousands of government programs, according to the Washington Post.

In response to the report’s speculations that Musk would likely find himself top of that list, the Tesla CEO posted on X, formerly Twitter: “I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go.”

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