If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don’t think I will get pushback.
President Donald Trump’s move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible—to streamline a vastly outsized government spending behemoth—injects hope that yes, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Musk, the world’s richest man, is not beholden to anyone, and so there is little danger of him getting bogged down and imprisoned in the Washington culture of politics and quid pro quo.
He can stand above it all and turn the Titanic around before it hits the iceberg for which it’s clearly headed.
There’s a lot of talk that almost 75% of the federal budget is untouchable, mandatory spending.
The top of that list is the largest, and…
