The problem with gutting these departments is that the repercussions aren't immediate. It's like firing your ATC training team and then, the following week, cl

The problem with gutting these departments is that the repercussions aren't immediate. It's like firing your ATC training team and then, the following week, claiming, see! we just saved a bunch of money and no airplanes crashed -- we didn't need them after all. Until one day ... Then when some day a crisis situation occurs, there isn't an appropriate response because "oops, that dept no longer exists, or doesn't have the staff to respond". But who knows if Trump's lucky he might even be out of office by then and someone else has to deal with it. But in the mean time, VP Musk gets to claim "look at all the money we saved!" Maybe some of the positions are redundant, but gutting across the board on day 1 definitely comes off as unwise and not thought through.