How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true

ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy are eager to whip the American authorities into form. On November 14th their newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) introduced it needs to rent “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” to get to work on cost-cutting. It’s straightforward to ridicule the enterprise. Mr Musk has talked of ripping $2trn out of the federal price range, an quantity that, if completed in a single yr, would exceed the federal government’s whole discretionary spending. Furthermore, Donald Trump has given DOGE lower than two years to get the job completed. And the entity is a small advisory physique, not an precise division, with a reputation impressed by a joke cryptocurrency.