Why Musk will struggle to reinvent American government

Those carrying scars from previous efforts to streamline US bureaucracy are sceptical about the billionaire’s ability to get any of his agenda through.

Ethics experts note that Elon Musk will now potentially have the ability to strip out regulations that affect his own companies. Tim Boer

Joe Miller, Stefania Palma and Stephen Morris

Nov 17, 2024 – 11.20am

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When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he quickly gutted the social media platform to its core operations, dispensing with anything he saw as wasteful or superfluous. Now, Donald Trump wants him to do the same to the US government.

The world’s richest man was named last week alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, a former rival of Trump’s for the Republican nomination, to head up a project with a mandate to “dismantle government bureaucracy”.

Financial Times