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What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy could abolish in the name of government efficiency

Mr. Elon Musk outlined plans on Nov 20 for his new role as “efficiency” czar – signaling an assault on federal spending and staffing that would be backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s executive powers and a conservative Supreme Court.

"99 Federal agencies is more than enough," Musk posted Tuesday night after Trump's announcement was made official. That suggests a massive culling of the hundreds of existing agencies, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the Education Department already in focus.

Musk later amended his count even lower, overlooking how a government database shows there are 80 agencies that begin with the letter U alone. Between them, Musk and Ramaswamy have also directly discussed eliminating high-profile areas like the Education Department, the FBI, and the Internal Revenue Service.

“We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees,” Mr Musk and Mr Ramaswamy wrote, in their most detailed remarks since Trump named them heads of a new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).

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