WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and billionaire Elon Musk met at the Pentagon Friday morning.
The New York Times reported Musk went to the Department of Defense for a briefing on war plans with China, but Secretary Hegseth and President Donald Trump said the point of the meeting was to discuss cuts to the Pentagon.
“It was a great, informal conversation,” Hegseth said. “The rest of that reporting was fake. There was no war plans. There’s no Chinese war plans. There was no secret plans.”
Musk accused Pentagon staffers of leaking false information, writing on X, “they will be found.”
“He was over there to talk about costs,” President Trump said, adding he wouldn’t share war plans with China with anyone.
“Certainly, you wouldn’t show it to a businessman who’s helping us so much,” he said.
The Pentagon said it’s trying to identify people and programs it can cut to reduce 5 to 8% of the budget.
Hegseth and President Trump announced a contract for a new F-47 fighter jet in the Oval Office on Friday. President Trump announced Boeing would build that jet.
The initial contract for the Air Force Jet is $20 billion.
“An experimental version of the plane has been secretly flying for almost five years and we’re confident that it overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” President Trump said.
A Pentagon official said engineers are working on a future, unmanned version of that fighter.
Source: Fox 8 News Channel
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