Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are rapidly reshaping the US government, dismissing officials, potentially ending foreign aid programs, and exerting power before checks and balances can be implemented. Musk, appointed as a special government employee with top-secret clearance, is tasked with firing personnel deemed unfit, while Trump seeks to dismantle USAID, the agency responsible for distributing US foreign aid.
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are applying Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos to the US government. There is a fire hose of developments as the men work quickly to reimagine elements of the federal government, purge officials they don’t like or trust, literally open floodgates in California and exert new power before constitutional checks and balances or public opinion catch up with them.
“This is the world’s richest man deciding the world’s richest country should stop helping the world’s poorest people,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who served at the agency during the Biden and Obama administrations, during an appearance on CNN Monday. “That is the story here. The president does not have the authority to unilaterally shutter a federal agency that has been established in congressional and congressional statute.
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