Trump and Elon Musk have transformed expectations of what can be done, even if the administration ultimately fails to deliver it
Donald Trump has changed politics with his shock-and-awe assault on the administrative state, led by Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency (DOGE).
The misnamed department, in reality a presidential taskforce, has barged into the US Treasury, seized control of the federal payment system and gone through spending items line by line, shutting down entire agencies despite lacking clear legal powers to do so.