US Domestic Politics & Its Global Effects
อีลอน มัสก์ จับมือ ทรัมป์ ตั้ง DOGE ปลดข้าราชการ 75% - ประหยัดงบ 2 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์
Summary
The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, targets two trillion in savings and a 75% reduction in the federal workforce within two and a half years.
Musk advertised for high-IQ people willing to work over eighty hours a week without pay.
The concerns are conflict of interest and feasibility: the most successful past reform of the US civil service still took eight years.
Key points
The target exceeds anything previously achieved
Comparing it with earlier reforms is the most direct way to test the number.
Taking no salary does not remove the interest
People with existing government contracts designing government cuts is a structural problem.
A civil service is not a company
What can be cut in a firm may be a statutory obligation in a state.
The signal matters more than the figure
Whatever it achieves, creating the office states the new administration’s direction plainly.