He’s Spent Years Watching Silicon Valley Take Companies Apart. He Has a Warning for DC.
A tech insider speaks about Elon Musk’s playbook for DOGE.
Washington has been blown away by the speed with which Elon Musk and his team of engineers have swept across the executive branch — using the seemingly limited mandate of the new DOGE office to trigger mass layoffs, wipe out entire federal programs and strike fear into the employees of one of the world’s largest and most stable bureaucracies.
But what, really, does Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency want?
Washington insiders largely see it through the lens of policy, or ideology — it’s about “major reform,” or perhaps personal financial gain. Or dismantling the administrative state. It could be an attempt to concentrate power in the White House, or sweep away pesky investigations of Musk’s businesses.
