Musk’s “Efficiency” Department: A Self-Destructive Charade?
Downsizing the federal workforce faces significant hurdles, including robust civil service protections and collective bargaining agreements. Proposed solutions like Schedule F, while impacting policymaking roles, offer limited fiscal savings. Ultimately, only Congress possesses the authority to drastically restructure the federal government, a power theoretically within the reach of the current Republican majority. However, any such endeavor risks being largely duplicative of existing proposals and ultimately unproductive.
John Q. Hosedrinker