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Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Should Eliminate Itself

Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Should Eliminate Itself

The vanity agency the billionaire oligarch is getting from Trump probably won’t accomplish much beyond giving him and partner Vivek Ramaswamy more of what they desperately crave—attention.

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by Matt Ford

A laptop keyboard, Elon Musk post about DOGE on X displayed on a phone screen and representation of Dogecoin cryptocurrency are seen in this illustration.
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Elon Musk appears poised to play a major role in the next Trump administration. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter formally endorsed President-elect Donald Trump in July and funneled millions of dollars into super PACs to support his reelection bid during the campaign. Trump, in turn, has seemingly…

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