Elon Musk and the staff on the Division of Authorities Effectivity discovered one factor actually quick: should you management the computer systems, you management the whole lot. And so Musk and his merry band of engineers have spent the final week or so parading into numerous US authorities businesses and taking management of their techniques. There’s a lot about what’s actually occurring right here — who has what entry, when anybody will try and stop them, whether or not this small group actually will efficiently shut down businesses and persuade hundreds of federal workers to depart their jobs — that we don’t know. However nevertheless it shakes out, the X-ification of the US authorities shouldn’t be a great factor.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we begin by attempting to, if not make sense of issues, not less than attempt to clarify them. Nilay, David, and The Verge’s Richard Lawler speak about why DOGE is working the best way it’s, the way it has been capable of so rapidly assume a lot management over the federal government, and what would possibly come subsequent.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with DOGE and tariffs:
And within the lightning spherical: