Protect us from the spoiled rich kids
Elon Musk reminds me of a little boy I knew who liked to pull the wings off flies just for fun. He now runs the “Department of Government Efficiency” which was created by an Executive Order issued by President Trump on his first day in office of his second term.
An Executive Order is a powerful tool of Presidential power, but it cannot enact a new law or repeal a law passed by Congress or violate Constitutional restraints. For instance, President Harry Truman’s Executive Order nationalizing the steel industry to prevent a labor strike during the Korean War was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1952.
If I were given the title of “Director of the Department of Government Efficiency” I would at least like to make it look like I was running it efficiently. Creating chaos is not efficient; firing thousands of people, barging into government offices backed up by government cops and raiding files full of citizens’ personal information without either right or reason is not much more than thuggery.
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