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> Checks and balances have been neutralized.

That seems somewhat inverted - the elected government is creating checks and balances on unelected bureaucrats.

"Checks and balances" is a phrase that applies to the ability of the three coequal branches of government to hold one another in check.

By sending in their own unelected bureaucrats

You're in the wrong place for a comment like that. Don't even bother.

Elon Musk was elected? News to me.

Trump was elected, and Elon was appointed by Trump?

Given the unprecedented power he is wielding he should have been confirmed by congress.

So Musk is one of those unelected bureaucrats you're railing against?

This is proof that people will downvote to silence things they don't like. This is a gross abuse of the spirit of HN. The statement above was factual.

A radical improvement in the national debt at the hands of the world's most competent entrepeneur? I think many people were voting specifically for this. Things are going exactly as advertised.

You are assuming that there will be a radical improvement. That is yet to be seen. I personally doubt it.

They're already projected to save hundreds of billions through the voluntary redundancy scheme implemented last week.

This sounds like a number pulled out of Musk's ass.

It’s wages per year with IIRC 8% of the workers taking the deal.

You are conflating debt and deficit. Cutting the deficit by a few hundred billion dollars will barely impact the rate of growth of the debt, it's not a "radical improvement in the national debt", it's a modest reduction in spending.

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