So much government waste that probably a 5 year old could figure out how to slash a few trillion from the budget. Go D.O.G.E. !!!

Musk emphasizes about the transparency and openness in this process. This is the key. The Deep State gets away with murder because all of it - everything - every action by every bureaucrat, in every agency, in the Federal Triangle, is hidden behind a wall "classified Information" and "mishandling classified information" is a felony.

Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" advice to Gorby was never more apt than now.

I would hope this can be extended to intelligence agencies, so we can finally see what the Deep State has been doing to get us into wars, and creating hostility instead of understanding, for the past century.

I am looking forward to being able to get an IRS employee on the phone instead of waiting for YEARS to resolve issues they make mistakes on or when their brainless computer dispatches letters with jargonated ununderstandable language. And to get clarity on the oddest "loans" in world history - Dept. Treasury EIDL loans, and why their webpages hide pertinent financial information.

Ths is one reason why so many Americans are angry. DC denies the average American the ability to communicate with the government, and that's the worst thing you can do to a human being - deny him his speech.

When the fedgov is trimmed to only the clearly stated functions in the Constitution,
I will mistrust them a little less, but only because they won't have enough power to
continually steal from all of us.

I'd like to see the death of baseline budgeting and a requirement for zero base budgets, forcing the agencies to justify every last dime every fiscal year. The Founders warned us that many fiscal sins would come from the "general welfare" statement in the Constitution's preamble, so expect Democrats to wail about how "cold-hearted" the Trump team is when they start seeing the vote-buying handouts disappearing from the budget.

Musk and Trump will have so many people trying to kill them if they cut the fat out of government...so much fat!

If he only sees a fraction of the success in this effort, as he has in aerospace and automobiles, the country will be far better off than it was under the party of Woke.

When it comes to cutting government functions and funding, considering how very much they have intruded on EVERY aspect of our daily lives, and progressively worst and worse (This ~is~ what the 'progressives' meant by 'progressive', isn't it?!) since at least the '50's, the thought which brings a tear to my eye and a grin to my chin is:
Chainsaw Vasectomy!