Elon Musk said he would take a step back from the government. The gate will not go anywhere
do what At this stage of the Trump administration, what is the so-called government efficiency department? Elon Musk has allegedly escaped from the government’s duties. The court is trying to beat Doge’s worst efforts. It seems that the most serious Taoist surplus has passed, replaced by something close to stagnation.
This is not true. Not even closed.
While the image of Doge is most likely to be burned on your retina, Elon Musk wielding a literal chain saw, the drama believes in an organization that quietly penetrates every corner of the federal government. Not only that, it is becoming increasingly obvious that its goals are now indistinguishable from the wider Trump administration. At this point, removing the edible color to remove a glass of water is like trying to remove the threshold.
What does it do from its perch? Clumsomely trying to fire thousands of government employees, instead clumsyly trying to collect, combine and analyze data that was never intended to come. Use this information to find and monitor immigrants. Provide assistance to the Department of Justice on alleged voter fraud prosecution.
Even if Musk claims he is withdrawing (although he met with House Republicans this week), his lieutenant is firmly firmly in the institutions that control the federal workforce and regulate his company. Doge is reportedly using his Xai Grok Chatbot to parse sensitive data, which could mean that the personal information of millions of Americans is doubling its training data as a model. A 19-year-old online big ball is still a core figure.
Meanwhile, the victory against Mamen may be short-lived. The Trump administration uses it as a beating ram to push its policies with overwhelming force. Although the courts in some cases (this week, a judge announced that Doch’s takeover of the American Peace Institute was illegal), these policies remain, and there are other ways to achieve them. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought will pick up Doge’s cost-cutting cape in the post-Musk era. I hope that he will wield not a hammer, but a blade.
This has always been the plan. Vought is the architect of Project 2025, and the project is Doge’s policy roadmap. He has explained the months after Doge’s first attack.
“We’re going to use all of our executive tools to make those savings permanent,” Vought said in an interview with Fox Business anchor Larry Kudlow on March 11. “We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that those are not merely something that goes on a website, but becomes permanent … We’ll work with Congress to do it, but we’ve also been aware the extent to which Congress has had a hard time passing cuts of any magnitude, and so what we want to do is everything we can to use presidential
