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In a 4 am publication on social networks Last week, Elon Musk called his project to hack the federal bureaucracy of the United States the “people’s revolution.” What the richest man in the world is trying to really seem like a popular survey than a power of the Executive Power, backed by President Donald Trump. Dismantle federal agencies, freeze funds and push the staff to resign goes far beyond a mere restructuring. Its objective is to change the constitutional separation and balance of powers.
The parts of the American bureaucracy are undoubtedly swollen and inefficient, and need modernization. Most American voters Support this idea. The reform of crispy bureaucracies often requires radical efforts. However, it also needs detailed planning, transparency and supervision. All this lacks what the Trump administration is now doing.
The Government’s efficiency department that Musk Heads is not a government agency established by Congress, but an opaque organism created by executive order. Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader He has argued It has no authority to make spending decisions or close programs, much less entire agencies.
In your search to find savings and eliminate “Awakening” policies, the Musk team of the coders of 20 and so many years has achieved infiltrate agencies including the treasure of the United States and state and health departments; The USAID agency of $ 40 billion has effect closed. Tens of thousands of public officials have been fired or suspended. Doge agents have accessed the trova of data, from intelligence records to bank details of employees and health records, increasing the risks of privacy and national safety. Delivering such power to a corporate boss with interest in shaping policies and regulation creates clear conflicts.
Musk has affirmed that he can save $ 2TN of the federal budget, more than half of all discretionary expenses. However, that is unrealizable without reducing the programs in which millions of Americans trust. Instead of a snoringly efficient bureaucracy, the result is more likely to be a federal government with huge holes pirated by the Capricho Dege. Beyond America, the destroying of foreign aid is already destroying soft power and danger to us Millions of vulnerable people.
In addition to destroying government machinery, however, this supposed impulse of efficiency seems to be used as coverage to reinforce the power of the executive branch to drive through its priorities and its neutral opposition. The tactics of the Musk team in the government departments resemble their acquisition of Twitter, where he fired 80 percent of the workforce, sweeping the possible critics and opponents, and many who really understood how the organization worked.
The efforts of the Dux team to take control of Payment systems Bovetail also, with the attempt of the administration to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies and federal loans, later terminated After it stopped temporarily by a judge. Both seem an attempt to challenge a 1974 law that It makes it illegal For the president to negle to spend money that Congress has been assigned, tilting the balance of the legislative to the executive branch.
With Congress to a large extent, it is falling before court to defend the constitutional order. But the gust of orders and actions of the Administration makes it difficult for prodemocratic activists and judges Keep. Vice President JD Vance suggested that the president could ignore judicial decisions that tried to avoid dismissing public officials. Like populist regimes in other places, the administration could also try to blame the judges to obstruct their agenda, which could erode public confidence in the Judiciary. However, sacrificing the rule of right to government efficiency is a good way to end any.