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Musk Pitches “Government Efficiency Commission” in Discussion with Trump

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A B-52H Stratofortress from Barksdale AFB, La.'s 20th Bomb Squadron takes off on July 27th from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania, as part of Bomber Task Force Deployment 24-4 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, pitched former president and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on a Government Efficiency Commission to help reduce DoD contract prices and federal waste, during an Aug. 12 discussion between the two on Musk's X platform. Musk’s comment came up, as Trump discussed what he called federal government overspending, prophesied a possible merger between Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Boeing [BA], and took credit for a price reduction in 2018 on the Boeing VC-25B…

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