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What is the good way to reduce the accident accidents? Obviously, they do not shoot at the safety experts in the air and instill the madness of greatness in those who remain. However, this is what Illon Musk is doing to the Federal Aviation Administration three weeks after the most air collision in America for years. His team is moving quickly to break things, as if Washington was an application. Unlike the cultural revolution in China, history provides some similarities to the so -called government efficiency ministry.

Musk The declared goal It is a reduction in the United States by removing waste, fraud and abuse. Its model is 80 percent of the Twitter employees that he launched after purchasing the site – starting with the Safety and Safety Group. If a basic person is to give up the error, he says, it can be reunited. This was already the case for hundreds of nuclear safety officials who shot earlier this month. It took some time to return the employees watching the nuclear stock of America because Dog has put their contact details.

The gap between the jobs performed by most federal employees and what Moses depicted them is Orwellian. We have described civil service staff as extremists who use their bureaucratic power for personal kicks. Closed now American Aid Agency It was a “criminal organization”. Musk said that some of its employees deserved tens of millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the US Treasury was sending millions of social security checks to the dead, terrorists and fraudsters.

Musk has not yet shown evidence of the fraud he claims. Its small team is mainly most of them are software engineers mainly. They have an accounting anti -fraud experience. They chanted Washington with the most disastrous words in its new dictionary, “Do I need to call Elon?” Musk used financial threats to change the voices of Republican Senators. He is happy to use his fateful strength – including 218 million followers on his X platform – to accuse less heinous crimes. What is the opportunity that the unknown epidemiologist, or a food safety inspector, is against the non -strained enmity of the richest man in the world?

The apparent political goal of Musk is to convert the American state into the Donald Trump Personal Tool. It can only be accomplished through strict fear and loyalty tests. Dog said he would rent one employee for every four of those removed. Trump’s goals support is an implicit qualification. Musk gave civil staff employees an outlet to condemn colleagues who are still abiding by the Dei rules that have now been canceled. The non-source seam-converting people against each other-is a tool of autocrats.

Musk also has the goal of work. On his mind, Washington abandons the organizers who suffocate entrepreneurs. This will be a worthy issue. In practice, it removes those whose experience is to monitor fraud and abuse. This started with Trump from 18 general inspectors. Then he moved to the chief ethics employees in the government. Musk’s Toll on the first day began the resignation of Mike Whitaker, the FAA president, who announced fines on Musk’s Spacex Rocket for safety violations.

Last week, Musk collected the closing of the Financial Consumer Protection Office with a leaflet showing “CFPB Rip”, followed by emoji symbols. The agency, which was created after the 2008 financial collapse, protects consumers of bank fraud and small Print Print by Corporaate America. It also organizes Fintech platforms. A few days ago, Musk’s X concluded a deal with Visa to launch X Money account – a basic step towards its goal of being the “application of everything”. Consumers will soon be able to obtain all social media, bank transfers, artificial intelligence support, and new Nazi propaganda from one platform.

Trump says that musk is watching his struggles. This may be a surprise Narendra ModiThe Indian Prime Minister, who was treated last week with the head of a meeting similar to the state with musk in the property of the US government. On one side, Modi officials were. In the face of three Mossk children and one of their mothers. Trump has not seen any problem with the fact that he “may be” there to talk about business. Musk wants India to raise its blocks on Tesla and Spacex.

Do not take anything at the nominal value. She plans to launch thousands of internal revenue service officers before the deadline for this year, questioning the sincerity of Musk of the desire to reduce the American deficit. The government cannot operate without means of collecting taxes. “He who saves his country does not violate the law,” Trump said last week. Musk believes that he saves America. With the reason for this noble, he has no time for the law.

Edward.luce@ft.com