Perhaps he will walk through the lobby of the Pentagon with a kitchen sink. Or fire the entire IT department at the Fed, shift the IRS to Mars, while replacing traffic police with fully autonomous Tesla robo-cops. No one has any real idea yet what Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, might come up with now he has been appointed by Donald Trump to head up a new Department of Government Efficiency (or ‘Doge’). One point is certain, however. There will be some spectacular fireworks. And it will throw down a challenge to bloated governments everywhere.
Nobody gets to amass a $300 billion fortune, working in manufacturing and technology, without an ability to embrace new ideas, and disrupt established ways of working
Musk’s appointment will no doubt be hugely controversial. Working alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, he will head a newly created agency that will look to radically restructure the size of the state.