As an investor, Elon Musk adopts the idea that the shift in business requires quick, severe and harmful measures. Now the same playing book applies to the country’s largest employer, the federal government, by controlling its own payment system and administration of external aid – and paying civil service employees aside those who raise legal and moral objections.
By doing this, it appears that Mr. Musk, the newly -ranked billionaires of government efficiency management, is carrying out the mission of President Donald Trump, who pledged to cut off waste and fraud in Washington.
For supporters of President Trump, the spirit of the Silicon Valley brought by Mr. Musk to reform the taxpayers funded by taxpayers is the reason for Washington, as the permanent political class has proven unwilling or unable to trim the amplified bureaucracy. Former presidents, such as Ronald Reagan, who pledged to follow up on a smaller government. Mr. Reagan himself mocked 1964, “The government office is the closest thing to the eternal life that we will see at all on this land.”
Why did we write this
The Trump and Eileon Musk administration seems to believe that acute disturbances are the only way to tame the government bureaucracy. The question is whether they destroy the constitution into parts along the way.
Mr. Musk is the richest person in the world, and he is considered a huge political donor who is echoed by federal agencies that organize his companies and protect citizens’ data as less important than the results. And for neighboring echoes who believe that the “deep state” of Trump’s anti -Trip operating in Washington, the parties are completely justified.
Frustration of Congress failure to address the budget deficit, whatever the party in power, also plays in the narration of Mr. Musk as strangers who can reduce the Jordian knot.
“We need some new eyes on this thing that is outside Washington, which can say,” What is the mistake here? How can we get this on the right track? “I think Duj is serving this purpose,” says Tom Davis, a former Republican Congress member of Virginia.
Democratic lawmakers and other opponents of Mr. Trump have wore the position of Mr. Musk Cavalier and his assault on the United States Agency for International Development. During the weekend, Mr. Musk insisted on closing the agency. On Monday, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the US Agency for International Development will be reduced and folded in his ministry. Mr. Musk also had a hand in a note sent to federal employees seeking to obtain resignations by September 30, entitled “Fork in the Road”, which is the same offer that was sent to Twitter workers in 2022 when he bought the social platform that is now called X.
Some warn that the constitutional crisis is ongoing, as Mr. Musk and his team are Doug Ringing roughness on various laws that govern how the executive authority worksLike the 1974 reservation law, as well as protection for job civil service employees. Mr. Trump’s advisers view some of these laws as unconstitutional restrictions on the executive authority, which is fighting a battle in the courts.
“The vision of the executive force is very dangerous,” says Richard Pinte, a chief White House ethics lawyer during the era of former President George W. Bush.
Where is Dog in the government?
Professor Eshran, who studies law at the University of Minnesota, says that the role of Mr. Musk is not specified in the Trump administration and what Dog is doing may face a challenge. An executive signed by Mr. Trump after assuming his position in his position as part of the executive branch, and not a consulting committee as it was visualized for the first time. Mr. Musk has not been confirmed by Congress, and his group appears to be working as a surreptitious unit within the administration.
As a federal officer in the Trump administration, Mr. Musk will have the authority to claim cooperation in a government agency, says Professor Rassam. But he will also be asked to reveal his financial assets and receive himself from any issue that could have a direct impact on its assets. The other option is for Doug to be a federal advisory committee, which is required by the law to hold public meetings and reveal its records. “You can not only choose and choose,” he says.
White House press secretary Caroline Levit told reporters on Monday that Mr. Musk is classified as a “private government employee”, not a full -time employee. This employee works for 130 days or less annually.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a democratic in Massachusetts working on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, He wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin The interrogation of why Mr. Musk and his team were granted access to federal payments systems that treat more than $ 5 trillion annually, including tax recovered amounts and social security checks. “I am concerned that as one of your first actions as a secretary, it seems that you have handed over a very sensitive system responsible for millions of private data from Americans – and a major function for the government – to an unaccounted billionaire and an unknown number of him and wrote.
Also Monday, the American Union of the Union of Government Employees Join other groups to prosecute The Ministry of Treasury “to share secret data with the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), which is run by Elon Musk.”
“It is a large cost cut”
Mr. Musk argues that his goal is to stop the “illegal” payments that pass through the Ministry of Treasury. He wrote on X that his team is “cutting financing for scammers, Wastrels and terrorists.” Treasury officials also accused “Breaking the law every hour every day by approving fraudulent payments or does not match the financing laws approved by Congress.”
It is not clear, if any, payments were stopped, although Mr. Musk claimed that he had cut a refugee support services agency. Mr. Musk’s focus comes on treasury payments as a White House effort to stop all federal financial aid.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump said he supported Mr. Musk’s efforts, without commenting on specific procedures. “He cut a great cost,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “Sometimes we will not agree with it and will not go where you want to go, but I think he is doing a great job. He is a very smart man, and he is in reducing our federal government’s budget.”
For the preachers for a long time for the limited government, Mr. Musk’s prominent strikes on federal agencies and the use of executive orders to force change have clear defects.
Alex Novre, Vice President of Economic and Social Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, a Libertari Research Center, was excited when Dog was first announced. But he did not like his attempt to close the United States Agency for International Development, or its allegations of huge savings of fraud and waste that can be found, when the largest part of government spending of pensions, health care and defense goes.
Mr. Musk “gets a lot of decline when trying to repair a small shrapnel from the US budget,” says Mr. Norsteros. “It seems that a lot of pain is borne by the American ruling institutions, not a lot of return.”
The power of Congress for the portfolio at stake
Vinc Weber, a former Republican Congress member of Minnesota, says that the best scenario in cases is that Congress ultimately works with the administration to pass bills indicating the deficit. “They are trying to tell the country that Washington can work,” says Mr. Weber, a strategic expert of the Republican Party, referring to Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk.
Mr. Weber says that the least pink result will be a lengthy lawsuit that links voters more than the government’s effectiveness. Either way, legislators are involved in the completion of a functional dysfunctional system to spend bills. “Congress needs to look into the mirror.” If they protect the regular allocation process, I do not think that we will be in our place today. ”
Matt Salmon, a former member of Congress, the Republican Party of Arizona, who has now worked on the House of Representatives Committee, says Mr. Musk is wrong in dismantling the American Agency for International Development, not only because the agency is doing a good job, but also because Congress has authorized his spending. Mr. Salmon, a Trump critic, says the Republicans who ignore the transgressions of Doug have short memories.
“I used to complain a lot when President Obama, through executive orders, was doing things that it should have been [done] By Congress. If you are strictly attached to the constitution, you cannot [complain] “When he is head of the other party,” says Mr. Salmon.
Vetet Williams, director of the effective government program and accountability in the project on government supervision, a non -partisan surveillance group, says that waste and increased transparency is worthwhile targets, says Vic Williams, director of the effective government program and accountability in the project on government supervision, which is a monitoring group Non -party. But the empowerment of Mr. Musk, an inaccurate businessman, to close the agency without holding any sessions that do not feel accountable, especially when the Trump administration is At one time, they call the general inspectors in multiple government agencies.
“When we talk about violations [in government] “We are also talking about power violations, and this is what we see now,” says Ms. Williams.
You also expect to see litigation about free Doug’s tactics. However, even if the courts ultimately fluctuate specific procedures, the damage may have already occurred to the expectations of how presidents can use power. “The standards and challenges are weakened, and this is not something we receive,” she says.
