If elected president, Donald Trump is going add a new position to his cabinet.
A role he says will positively impact the lives of all Americans.
Yesterday, Trump said that he will create a new Cabinet position geared toward cutting the cost of living if elected to a second term.
Trump made the announcement as part of a “new step” to get “emergency price relief to all Americans” while speaking at a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“I will create a new Cabinet position for a senior member of my administration who will be tasked exclusively with doing everything in the federal government’s power to reduce the cost of living,” Trump said.
As the surging prices of everyday goods weighs on the minds of all voters, Elon Musk, the owner of X and other companies such as Tesla and SpaceX, recently suggested he could help Trump in a second term ensure that taxpayers’ money is spent efficiently by the federal government.
Trump told Fox News that Musk wanted to be his “secretary of cost-cutting,” though he suggested the role would not be a formal Cabinet position because of the tech entrepreneur’s business empire.
“He wants to be in charge of cost-cutting,” Trump said. “We’ll have a new position, secretary of cost-cutting, okay? Elon wants to do that. He’s running a big business. He can’t just say, I think I’ll go into the Cabinet. Other people can, he can’t.”
Trump also said he would sign an executive order on “day one” that would direct every federal agency to “immediately remove every single burdensome regulation driving up the cost of goods.”
Trump’s political rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, also said in August that she would “take on the high costs that matter most to most Americans” and vowed to fight price gouging in the food and grocery industries.