Elon Musk Urges US to 'delete' Federal Agencies in Government Overhaul

[Social Media]

 

Elon Musk has called for a drastic reduction of the United States federal government, stating that entire agencies should be eliminated rather than merely downsized. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the billionaire entrepreneur emphasized the need for structural change, warning that without completely removing these institutions, bureaucratic inefficiency would persist.  

 

"If we don't remove the roots of the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back," Musk said, reinforcing his belief that deep systemic cuts are necessary for government reform. Wearing a black T-shirt with the words “Tech Support,” Musk humorously referred to himself as the White House’s unofficial technical advisor, a nod to his profile on X, the social media platform he owns.  

 

Since taking leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump’s administration, Musk has consolidated significant influence over government operations. His tenure has seen career officials sidelined, access granted to sensitive federal databases, and a growing debate over the extent of presidential authority. His remarks in Dubai highlight his continued push for aggressive government streamlining, a stance that could set the stage for further political and constitutional debates in Washington.  

 

Musk, whose vast wealth stems from his leadership at SpaceX and Tesla, has long been vocal about the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy. His comments are likely to fuel discussions about the role of government oversight and whether such extreme measures are viable or necessary.

 

However, critics argue that dismantling entire federal agencies could lead to significant disruptions in essential services and governance.  

 

As Musk continues to influence both the private and public sectors, his call for eliminating government agencies raises questions about the future direction of U.S. federal operations. Whether his vision gains traction or meets resistance, it is clear that his role in shaping government policy is growing stronger.

 

 

Based on a report by The Independent 2025-02-15

 

 

[digger70]

2 hours ago, Social Media said:

"If we don't remove the roots of the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back," Musk said, reinforcing his belief that deep systemic cuts are necessary for government reform.

 Oh Yea . Clean up the Country .

[Luuk Chaai]

and it can't happen fast enough !

[mr336]

Yea but what if he looks at my personal information🤣. Corrupt foolish Dems and their brainwashed followers.

[save the frogs]

let's see where this leads.

i was never as fascinated with politics before until trump and elon came along. 

never a dull moment with these guys. 

[HappyExpat57]

This reminds me of when I first started playing with a Windows computer. I'd start deleting files willy nilly until - OOPS - I just crashed my computer.

 

These idiots are using the same process. They haven't a CLUE what impact killing these programs will have on the US public. People are already dying for lack of food and medical care USAID used to provide. YES there are a lot of unnecessary programs throughout the entire government, but this slash and burn foolishness will NOT win the hearts and minds of voters who wake up one day only to discover a program they depended on was cut by president Musk.

 

Not to mention, you really want to cut spending in any program? You send in forensic accountants, not coders (one of whom was fired from another job for divulging information to a competing company). I am not at all assured they won't put back doors in the servers. That's what hostile coders do.

[spidermike007]

Musk is the one who needs to be somehow eliminated from this ridiculousness. Sure, many areas need to be trimmed. Is he the one to do it? 

 

As his wealth has increased so has his level of arrogance, insanity and foolishness. I don't trust his judgment and he now has far too much power. 

[Albaby]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This reminds me of when I first started playing with a Windows computer. I'd start deleting files willy nilly until - OOPS - I just crashed my computer.

 

These idiots are using the same process. They haven't a CLUE what impact killing these programs will have on the US public. People are already dying for lack of food and medical care USAID used to provide. YES there are a lot of unnecessary programs throughout the entire government, but this slash and burn foolishness will NOT win the hearts and minds of voters who wake up one day only to discover a program they depended on was cut by president Musk.

 

Not to mention, you really want to cut spending in any program? You send in forensic accountants, not coders (one of whom was fired from another job for divulging information to a competing company). I am not at all assured they won't put back doors in the servers. That's what hostile coders do.

Why should American taxpayers $$$s be used to keep foreign nationals fed and housed. Let nature take it's course. 

[HappyExpat57]

1 minute ago, Albaby said:

Why should American taxpayers $$$s be used to keep foreign nationals fed and housed. Let nature take it's course. 

That is a typical shallow, inhumane and childish MAGA attitude.

 

For a long time the US was looked up to as that "beacon on the hill." When any country was in need, the US was ALWAYS the first on the scene to offer a helping hand because it had more than enough and was willing to share. As a result, many allied relationships were formed.

 

Now cruel selfishness is the attitude of the fools at the helm. Sure, the world will adjust as they wake up to the realization the US is now only out for itself, screw everyone else. The result? Those countries in need will become former allies and turn to US adversaries. Stay on this path, at the end of the day, the US will be isolated, and the way things are being run, it's going to NEED friends to get out of a terrible jam of its own making.

 

But hey, if you can't see it from your single-wide trailer's porch, it doesn't affect you, right?

[hotsun]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This reminds me of when I first started playing with a Windows computer. I'd start deleting files willy nilly until - OOPS - I just crashed my computer.

 

These idiots are using the same process. They haven't a CLUE what impact killing these programs will have on the US public. People are already dying for lack of food and medical care USAID used to provide. YES there are a lot of unnecessary programs throughout the entire government, but this slash and burn foolishness will NOT win the hearts and minds of voters who wake up one day only to discover a program they depended on was cut by president Musk.

 

Not to mention, you really want to cut spending in any program? You send in forensic accountants, not coders (one of whom was fired from another job for divulging information to a competing company). I am not at all assured they won't put back doors in the servers. That's what hostile coders do.

Well dont mess with the windows registry files, even Elon knows that!

[HappyExpat57]

Just now, hotsun said:

Well dont mess with the windows registry files, even Elon knows that!

Wrong again. It WASN"T the registry and president Musk has no IDEA what he's cutting.

Isn't being wrong so often getting tiresome?

[wwest5829]

2 hours ago, digger70 said:

 Oh Yea . Clean up the Country .

Irony, I can support the goal. I cannot, will not support the way this is being done in an unconstitutional means.

[wwest5829]

2 hours ago, mr336 said:

Yea but what if he looks at my personal information🤣. Corrupt foolish Dems and their brainwashed followers.

Not what if, the Musketeers are already accessing. To what ends?

[wwest5829]

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This reminds me of when I first started playing with a Windows computer. I'd start deleting files willy nilly until - OOPS - I just crashed my computer.

 

These idiots are using the same process. They haven't a CLUE what impact killing these programs will have on the US public. People are already dying for lack of food and medical care USAID used to provide. YES there are a lot of unnecessary programs throughout the entire government, but this slash and burn foolishness will NOT win the hearts and minds of voters who wake up one day only to discover a program they depended on was cut by president Musk.

 

Not to mention, you really want to cut spending in any program? You send in forensic accountants, not coders (one of whom was fired from another job for divulging information to a competing company). I am not at all assured they won't put back doors in the servers. That's what hostile coders do.

Concur.

[wwest5829]

52 minutes ago, Albaby said:

Why should American taxpayers $$$s be used to keep foreign nationals fed and housed. Let nature take it's course. 

Very sad statement 

[save the frogs]

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

They haven't a CLUE what impact killing these programs will have on the US public.

but musk has claimed that the US is 2 trillion dollars IN DEBT and going bankrupt.

also, successful businessmen like Trump and Elon might be the best people to run a country because a country is a sort of big business that needs to avoid going bankrupt. 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Musk giving press conferences from the Oval Office while Trump sat there looking like a lost grandad who doesn’t know what’s going on around him is all the warning anyone should need.

 

Musk is clearly running the show.

 

An unelected billionaire who is constitutionally barred from the Presidency has taken advantage of an old man whose out of it.

 

The times still think the Billionaire has their best interests in mind.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

but musk has claimed that the US is 2 trillion dollars IN DEBT and going bankrupt.

also, successful businessmen like Trump and Elon might be the best people to run a country because a country is a sort of big business that needs to avoid going bankrupt. 

 

 

 

Trump has a great deal of bankruptcy experience and a track record of funneling tax payer’s money to his own pockets, Musk the single biggest private recipient of Federal subsidies.

A couple of welfare queens.

 

[digger70]

3 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

Irony, I can support the goal. I cannot, will not support the way this is being done in an unconstitutional means.

You Don't have to Supported  They Don't need You.

 As in accordance with a political constitution.

  Who's more Imported The Home Country/People OR a Foreign country.

If this Benefit the Country All is FINE. 

Countries have to. Support Themselves  Not Relying on the Rest off the world to Aid them ALL the time .

In case of a Natural Disaster of some sort  it's a Different story.

But it isn't suppose to be an Permanent  Gift/Donation.

[candide]

Let's eliminate the NASA and its useless spendings!

Oh wait! 😆

[JonnyF]

4 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

For a long time the US was looked up to as that "beacon on the hill."

 

No, they were looked upon as mugs, fools, gullible, stupid. An easy touch. 

 

Musk, Trump and Vance are fixing that. 

 

Feel free to donate towards some third world dictator's Ferrari collection with your own money though. 

[HappyExpat57]

17 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

No, they were looked upon as mugs, fools, gullible, stupid. An easy touch. 

 

Musk, Trump and Vance are fixing that. 

 

Feel free to donate towards some third world dictator's Ferrari collection with your own money though. 

That's a real shame your jaded heart makes you think this. It's wrong and you should know better.

[JonnyF]

Just now, HappyExpat57 said:

That's a real shame your jaded heart makes you think this. It's wrong and you should know better.

 

Spare me your pearl clutching. 😄

 

Everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows what happens when you give money to the South African government (for example).

 

[Walker88]

Maybe one of the , like really stable genius MAGAs here, can riddle me this.....

 

If President Musk deletes 25% of the Federal workforce, how much money is saved?

 

(Hint: It's less than 1% of the Federal Budget, but it will slow govt services like tax refunds, inspecting food for bacteria, getting a passport, approving new drugs, monitoring ports for contraband, etc. But hey, that <1% of the budget, which might mean 26 cents for the average MAGA, is worth waiting 3 years for your passport, right, or a dirty bomb getting through Baltimore and into Washington, DC?)

 

Where's the actual fraud, waste and abuse? I suggest in that Fox Talk Show Host's department...Defense. Of the top 10 defense budgets on planet Earth (is Musk still here?), the US' is larger than the next 9 combined. I don't see anybody invading any of those other 9, except Ukraine. Heck, Pete the SecDef just got $50,000 to repaint his official residence. Now if he and Elon had any brains, they would pay a couple of illegal aliens five hundred bucks to do the job...and THEN deport them. Oh, and Elon isn't on any GS-system; he's getting paid $8 million a month for his DOGEwork, as if he needs the money.

 

It's pretty dangerous to think just because a guy can hire smart engineers who can figure out how to catch a rocket booster he also can instantly determine where all the fraud, waste and abuse is in government, especially when he hires 19 year old college freshman to help. As I noted in another thread about the actions of President Musk, USAID funded prison guards in Syria who look after hundreds of ISIS jihadis. When their pay stopped, the guards left. Shortly thereafter, so did the ISIS jihadis. Call me a cynic, but I don't think those jihadis were rehabilitated in that Syrian jail. I suspect they're going to go back to doing what they do best, which is killing innocent people, some of whom are4 likely to be Americans.

[Harrisfan]

5 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

That is a typical shallow, inhumane and childish MAGA attitude.

 

For a long time the US was looked up to as that "beacon on the hill." When any country was in need, the US was ALWAYS the first on the scene to offer a helping hand because it had more than enough and was willing to share. As a result, many allied relationships were formed.

 

Now cruel selfishness is the attitude of the fools at the helm. Sure, the world will adjust as they wake up to the realization the US is now only out for itself, screw everyone else. The result? Those countries in need will become former allies and turn to US adversaries. Stay on this path, at the end of the day, the US will be isolated, and the way things are being run, it's going to NEED friends to get out of a terrible jam of its own making.

 

But hey, if you can't see it from your single-wide trailer's porch, it doesn't affect you, right?

People can fed themselves.

[Patong2021]

30 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

No, they were looked upon as mugs, fools, gullible, stupid. An easy touch. 

 

Musk, Trump and Vance are fixing that. 

 

Feel free to donate towards some third world dictator's Ferrari collection with your own money though. 

 

looks more like the Trump family is profiting as is Musk. Conflicts of interest are of no concern  amongst the MAGA collective.

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Maybe one of the , like really stable genius MAGAs here, can riddle me this.....

 

If President Musk deletes 25% of the Federal workforce, how much money is saved?

 

(Hint: It's less than 1% of the Federal Budget, but it will slow govt services like tax refunds, inspecting food for bacteria, getting a passport, approving new drugs, monitoring ports for contraband, etc. But hey, that <1% of the budget, which might mean 26 cents for the average MAGA, is worth waiting 3 years for your passport, right, or a dirty bomb getting through Baltimore and into Washington, DC?)

 

Where's the actual fraud, waste and abuse? I suggest in that Fox Talk Show Host's department...Defense. Of the top 10 defense budgets on planet Earth (is Musk still here?), the US' is larger than the next 9 combined. I don't see anybody invading any of those other 9, except Ukraine. Heck, Pete the SecDef just got $50,000 to repaint his official residence. Now if he and Elon had any brains, they would pay a couple of illegal aliens five hundred bucks to do the job...and THEN deport them. Oh, and Elon isn't on any GS-system; he's getting paid $8 million a month for his DOGEwork, as if he needs the money.

 

It's pretty dangerous to think just because a guy can hire smart engineers who can figure out how to catch a rocket booster he also can instantly determine where all the fraud, waste and abuse is in government, especially when he hires 19 year old college freshman to help. As I noted in another thread about the actions of President Musk, USAID funded prison guards in Syria who look after hundreds of ISIS jihadis. When their pay stopped, the guards left. Shortly thereafter, so did the ISIS jihadis. Call me a cynic, but I don't think those jihadis were rehabilitated in that Syrian jail. I suspect they're going to go back to doing what they do best, which is killing innocent people, some of whom are4 likely to be Americans.

There are 100,000 terrorists in the world. One is born each day. You cannot stop it. 

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, Patong2021 said:

 

looks more like the Trump family is profiting as is Musk. Conflicts of interest are of no concern  amongst the MAGA collective.

Like Obama, Biden and Clinton 

[HappyExpat57]

10 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Spare me your pearl clutching. 😄

 

Everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows what happens when you give money to the South African government (for example).

 

 

Spare me your ridiculous false equivalents. Those with more than a few brain cells have been SAYING that spending cuts must be done. The DOGE asshats tried firing the folks who control the US nuclear stockpile until a judge stopped them.

They're reckless, stupid, and those defending them are as well.

[HappyExpat57]

8 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

People can fed themselves.

If only they could articulate things as well as you.

(BTW, I know you won't get it, so this is sarcasm)