End, of course, with tweet. Late Wednesday evening, Elon Musk He announced the official party of its shocking short period as head of a makeup agency called the Ministry of Government efficiency. Musk mail On X, it was the social media network that it possessed and sought to arm it in the service of the radical cost assault on the federal government. After thanks Donald Trump In order to “the opportunity to reduce waste spending,” added the world’s richest man, who was still challenging, added that “Doge’s mission will be strengthened only over time because it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
The vision of musk worry across Washington, vicious, evil: It was likely that he had failed to notice his poisonous mixture of entitlement and ignorance, greatly excessive allegations, and excessive demands. Fast move ethics and difference This has led to a wreck that will take years to fully evaluate it? Musk, the largest individual donor in one electoral cycle in American history, seem to believe what his critics fear – that hundreds of millions of dollars spent on behalf of Trump and Republican issues have bought a large share of the presidency itself. He sought to collect an unprecedented way, and install himself in the White House alongside Trump, wandering in one Marin with his young son, speaking at the cabinet meetings even though he had not occupied any confirmed official seat in the Senate on the table. He called on sensitive government data on millions of Americans, and enabling the former trainee known online as large balls, dawn Foreign Aid Program for the United States. In February, he made a cavity on the stage in a conservative event with a saw – a metaphorical accuracy there – and when he launched thousands of workers and The entire agencies were canceledThe void embodiment of the Republican Party campaign for decades has become for decades to ventilate and reduce the US federal government.
In a round of exit interviews this week, Musk looked all the notes that could be predicted by a naive billionaire businessman who was exposed to Washington’s political reality. he He said Washington mail He found that things were “much worse” than he realized inside the federal bureaucracy, and that it had already become clear that it was a “arduous battle” to take these saws to the government. in interview At “CBS News Sunday Morning”, the chaotic work to separate himself began from the president. “I felt, such as disappointment, to see the huge spending bill, frankly,” Musk admitted, given that Trump. “Big, beautiful“The tax discounts of the wealthy and spending on the poor will add trillion dollars to the budget deficit. He said that what is clear, which, these days, was like the work of Losk Majeste among the Republican Sicovs surrounding Trump, Musk added that this procedure undermines the work of the Doug team.” (What a “lie”, Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy, said, although it was not.) Trump was, as often, is to need a lot of support.
To see Trump an offer from the owner who holds it like glue in most of the first few months of the administration, I could only think about Renise Bricus, Chief of Staff of the First White House, who was thrown through a tweet while getting rid of one air force and left on the joint base runway Andrews in Morkid Trump without him. The truth is that Trump cannot bear one of that chaotic divorce in which he and his musk excel; He still needs Musk, who talked about spending one hundred million dollars of his wealth to help the pro -experimenting groups before the renewal elections next year. The few may have left the building, but it is not clear that the president can live without it.
I was in Madison Square Garden last October when Musk claimed, during a Trump’s electoral career, that he would reduce a trillion dollars, at least, from the United States budget – a little courage that got less attention Rally rally made racism And Trump-SAR-Dear-Leader VIBE. Later, Musk described his ambitions again to reduce a trillion dollars. Of course, this never happened, too, because anyone who spent a minute in Washington had told Musk, if he was interested in listening.
Despite all MUSK early claims for the “revolution”, it seems that his last balance was somewhere about one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Even this is unlikely to stand. Many of the savings that musk boasted on Dodge The website has proven that it does not exist; Many agencies and departments that he attacked now are to prevent a wave of shooting and the discounts he started in the movement. In the end, his reckless approach to cutting, without thinking about the consequences, may cost the government up to one hundred and thirty -five dollars in this fiscal year alone, according to recent estimates from the partnership of public service. It turns out that it is not cheap to put tens of thousands of workers on a paid vacation and the rehabilitation of employees by mistake, do not mind dealing with the lost productivity of the painful and unconfirmed workforce. Who thought?
Nevertheless, the MUSK failure should not detract in following his trivialities from a clear assessment of the extraordinary amount of the damage that he was exposed to. The wise laughs from musk outside the city, and I get it. The “performance sabotage”, as Jonah Goldberg said on CNN, in some respects is just a very new variable from Washington, Maamara: Paul who offers promises that he could not keep. But it is difficult to think of any other non -elected official who has greatly harmed the United States government in a short period of time. The fact that the deficit may become greater at the end of the day does not increase the injury.
A few hours before Musk’s announcement, I spoke with one of the thousands of victims. Even a few weeks ago, Mary Boyle was delegated to the Consumer Product Safety Committee, the historical agency of the two parties, which, for more than fifty years, had hoped that car seats in America, roasted ovens and children’s Arab are safe. Boyle, one of the three Democrats appointed in the committee, narrated how Mossk’s men have already ended her office within hours. The rumors came first, on Wednesday evening, May 7:Dodge Coming. ”By 2 evening The next day, two young men appeared in the agency’s offices, in Betsda, Maryland. At 3:45 eveningBoyle and other commissioners received an e -mail from the Republican Republican President, and informed them that he intends to bring Monday DodgeRS, which, “without any committee account”, will help the agency “with an evaluation and enhancement of internal operations and operational procedures.” The commissioners had up to 6 eveningHe said, to inform him, “If I have your support,” he said. It would be funny if this type of thing would not have been unimaginable in an effective democracy: Here are the men who would put us out of work, and come cheap. Boyle sent her response, an email from one word: “No.” One hour later, while withdrawing in a state of rest at the New Jersey Turnpike, she received a response from a kind, from Trent Morsi, deputy head of the White House Personnel Office: “Mary, on behalf of President Donald J
It does not seem that it matters that the Consumer Product Safety Committee was established by Congress, and has a budget by Congress, and its commissioners have confirmed by Congress. The same law that rules the agency, which was first approved in 1972, could not be more clear: there were only two reasons for launching a delegate – “neglecting duty” or “poor ventilation in his position.” Boyle now finds herself as a major prosecutor in case you never expected her to submit: Boyle V. Trump. Although the attack on her agency was “rude” and “illegal”, Boel told me that she knew that she might succeed. The day after that she and her colleagues filed a lawsuit last week, the Supreme Court indicated that it might be the case Precedent It dates back to the era of the new deal that protects the independent agents from its launch by the president. Meanwhile, you can forget new rules to restrict potential ion batteries in electronic bicycles and motorcycles that the Consumer Product Safety Committee was working on. Thanks, Elon.
Musk losses are not only in Washington, but All over the worldIn refugee camps and scientific laboratories that were suddenly cut off, in national parks you cannot reach this summer, and in societies throughout the country where pollutants will not be tried. “All this turmoil will affect the government’s work in ways that we cannot even expect.” Boyle will have a right. We have been warned. ♦
