President Donald Trump said Friday that Elon Musk would soon turn his cost-cutting attention to the Pentagon, a vast bureaucracy that has billions of dollars in contracts with Musk through SpaceX and other companies he owns.

“He will be looking at education pretty quickly, and he will be looking at military,” Trump told reporters during a news conference at the White House with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan. “At military, too.” The president expressed no concern about the conflict of interest. The Defense Department relies on Musk to get most of its satellites into orbit. His companies were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.

Trump praised the group who work for Musk as part of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has been orchestrating firings of government employees, including almost 10,000 at the United States Agency for International Development, which coordinates foreign aid and assistance.

“I’m very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but very smart people, they’re doing,” the president said. “They’re doing it at my insistence. It would be a lot easier not to do it, but we have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption.”