The Minister of Public Services, Guillaume Kasbarian, congratulated the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, on Wednesday, November 13, after his appointment by Donald Trump as head of a ministry of“government efficiency” For “dismantle the government bureaucracy”.
The rich owner of X and boss of Space “dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations, cut unnecessary spending and restructure federal agencies”declared the president-elect in a press release.
Incommented Guillaume Kasbarian, in English: “Congratulations on taking on this amazing challenge @elonmusk! I hope to share with you best practices to combat excess bureaucracy, reduce paperwork, and rethink public organizations to improve the effectiveness of public officials. »
Elon Musk will head this ministry along with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. “This will send a shock wave through the system and all those involved in government waste, which represents a lot of people.”he said, about his new position.
The 53-year-old businessman threw himself into Donald Trump’s campaign in recent weeks. Images of the billionaire – Forbes estimates his fortune at more than 300 billion dollars; jumping on stage during a Republican rally in Pennsylvania went around the world.
“Poor French officials”
“We thought that Trumpism in France was limited to the extreme right. We were wrong. We have G. Kasbarian, the French Elon Musk without electricity »mocked the head of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure. For the president (Socialist Party) of the Occitania region, Carole Delga, the Minister of the Public Service “humiliates”through your message “who every day care for, educate, protect and maintain public services in our territories. It disgraces our Republic. »
“Are we congratulating Elon Musk? No, really, that’s not possible.”responded in X the former Macronist Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, now a socialist deputy for Yvelines.
“A French minister congratulates, in English, Elon Musk on his appointment to the Trump administration. He proudly admits sharing the same objectives of weakening public services. How far will this government go in its humiliation of France? »reacted the deputy of La France insoumise (LFI) of Val-de-Marne Clémence Guetté.
For the “rebel” deputy Gabrielle Cathala, this message announces “The Kasbarian program: privatize, bury public services, dismantle the State for the benefit of the most fortunate”. “Macronie sinks a little deeper every day into collusion with the authoritarian and violent extreme right”worries the Val-d’Oise deputy.
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“Is support for cuts to the US Department of Education or the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission a model for Macronists? »asks Rodrigo Arenas, deputy of the New Popular Front (NFP) in Paris. “Poor French officials who have to put up with a minister like that”is alarmed by the communist senator Ian Brossat, pointing out that “Macronism dissolves in Trumpism. »
