Donald Trump's broligarch friends are ready to wreck America's essential public services -- and must be stopped

One of the best presidents America never had, Adlai Stevenson, put it bluntly when he said: “The ability to govern is the final test of politics, the acid, final test.”

Stevenson should have been talking to Elon Musk.

The world’s richest man, along with failed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, have been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head something called the Department of Government Efficiency. It’s not a cabinet-level agency, but a likely home for authors of the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 with its nine hundred-plus page proposal on ways to slash the federal government.

Musk and Ramaswamy set about their duties with much boasting.

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