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Trump tells Musk to ‘slash and burn’

Radical: The boss of Tesla and the social media site X, Elon Musk (above) has claimed that it would be possible to cut “at least $2 trillion” from US government spending by eradicating waste.

Have governments become useless? On the reality television show The Apprentice, America got used to hearing Donald Trump’s favourite catchphrase: “You’re fired!”. Now, thousands of US officials could hear the same thing.