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What If Elon Musk Used His Power for Good in Washington
He doesn’t have to move fast and break things.
Elon Musk sees a lot of waste in Washington.
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I can’t say it’s how I’d run things, but one approach to saving money in government might be to unleash a social media-obsessed billionaire to selectively pick through budgets before targeting specific low-level federal employees for harassment. That’s the track record of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency so far, t-minus 17 days from the return of Donald Trump to the White House.