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Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it

  • Written by Allison Stanger, Distinguished Endowed Professor, Middlebury
imageElon Musk, right, has moved to take the reins of the U.S. government.Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory...

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