OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei emboldened an enthusiastic crowd of conservatives gathered outside Washington to keep supporting measures to shrink the size of government, explaining his methods are similar to those started by President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk.

Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with slashing U.S. federal government spending, took to the stage at a conservative conference outside Washington on Thursday with a gift from Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei: a chainsaw.

Argentina's President Javier Milei gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC on Thursday. Waving the chainsaw above his head on stage, Musk told attendees it was 'the chainsaw for bureaucracy'.