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Elon Musk says he’ll fix the government under Trump. His track record paints a different picture | CNN Business

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have discussed some kind of government role for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO if Trump wins the presidency.

Trump said Musk may serve as the “Secretary of Cost-Cutting ,” a government agency that doesn’t exist.

Musk has promised steep cuts to government spending to reduce wasteful spending.

He has also said he’d pitch a massive rollback of government regulations, which has long griped about.

Before Musk ’s purchase of Twitter — now X — in 2022 , the company’s severance plan dictated that employees who remained after the acquisition and were subsequently fired would take home up to six months of pay, plus one week of pay for each year they worked for the company. But the lawsuits against Musk and the company claim the company refused that payout. Musk won one such lawsuit earlier this year but several remain active..

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