Trump’s commerce secretary says goal is to abolish IRS; President spins Putin lines on Ukraine at Saudi-backed summit: Live
In an appearance on Fox News, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told host Jesse Watters that President Donald Trump has a very simple goal: to abolish the IRS.
“Donald Trump announced the External Revenue Service and his goal is simple: to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” said Lutnick, explaining that they intend to use a combination of tariffs and Elon Musk’s DOGE purges of waste and fraud to cut spending and try to eliminate the IRS.
On Air Force One on Wednesday evening, the president signed more executive orders including one terminating any federal taxpayer-funded benefits from going to or incentivizing migrants in the U.S. illegally.
Earlier Trump spoke at the Saudi-backed FII Priority Summit at which he doubled down on his attack on President Volodymyr Zelensky after the Ukrainian leader accused him of living in a Russian “disinformation space.”
The president again called Zelensky a “dictator” who has done a “terrible job” in leading his country through the war on his country while receiving billions of dollars in aid.
That row erupted after Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago press conference that Ukraine “should never have started” the conflict, even though its territory was invaded by Vladimir Putin’s troops.
