Get DC out of Cold War rut — cut government but don’t destroy it

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) have smashed into the federal bureaucracy and are proceeding to dismantle it piece by piece.

The legality of this demolition is an open question, and there’s probably a handful of functions USAID carried out that need to be continued.

John Sutter : Can an assault on a legally constituted government agency become a matter of ending graft and inefficiency and saving taxpayers’ money?.

David Rothkopf : DOGE is a laboratory-perfect example of corruption, Washington -style.

He says the crush of history has warped government structures and erased its original purposes.

He writes: The denial of history is the ultimate cause of dysfunction; denial of past is ultimate cause for dysfunction.

The critique of modern government has to do with sprawl and ineffectiveness.