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Weeks into the Trump administration, Musk has mostly made headlines for an assault on federal workers and payments. But regulation may not be far behind: during a"Regulations, basically, should be default gone," the head of the White House's Department of Government Efficiency said on the call,
"If it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in," he suggested. "These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done."
That astonishing mask-off moment — one of many during his short time as a presidential advisor — comes as Musk demonstrates that Trump has deputized him with incredible power to remake the federal government, as evidenced by his assault on the United States Agency for International Development.and beyond.
Regulations, after all, provide Americans with an incredible number of protections — from workplace safety to rules against companies polluting to making it so manufacturers can't sell goods that are poisonous or dangerous. "If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom," Musk said during the call. "We’ve got to restore freedom.", where such rules are documented. With each regulation clocking in at anywhere between one and 16 pages, there are far fewer than Musk is suggesting.codifying everything from expanded overtime pay for Americans previously ineligible to banning asbestos.
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