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Good morning. Elon Musk, the world's richest person, will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), Donald Trump has announced, along with the former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. The new body will not be a government agency but an outside organization offering the White House "advice and guidance".
Trump said it would shock government systems, as Doge (the acronym is the name of Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, which itself references a meme about a dog with an amusing expression), partners with the Office of Management and Budget to "create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before". Musk has admitted that slashing spending "necessarily involves some temporary hardship" for American taxpayers. Musk, who owns X, promised to publish the department's actions online for "maximum transparency", saying he would keep "a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars".
Ramaswamy, a wealthy biotech entrepreneur who, like Musk, has no government experience, also responded to his appointment on X, saying: "We will not go gently, @elonmusk". How much will they be cutting? Musk last month gave a goal of slashing government spending by $2tn, roughly a third of total spending, which experts say could result in deregulation that would directly affect Musk's companies. Biden administration will not limit arms transfers to Israel View image in fullscreen Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli bombardment of a camp for displaced people in Gaza City on Tuesday.
Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/SopaImages/Rex/Shutterstock The Biden administration has said that it will not curb its supply of arms to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if conditions in Gaza did not improve, despite humanitarian groups saying Israel has met almost none of the US demands. The US said on Tuesday that Israel had made some good, but limited, progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza. But aid groups said.
.. Clea Skopeliti.
