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Congress will only shut down these services if they don't perform. Musk is making sure they don't perform.

• _heimdall 2y ago
  That wouldn't necessarily be true. Congress could better, more clearly define what they require of these departments and services. Most of them were pretty weakly defined and they were given legal precedent to define what their own authority was (unless specifically defined by Congress). The departments could be kept with more clear definitions of what they need to do and what success looks like.
  • behringer 2y ago
    They could, but they won't, since Musk and republicans in Congress want the same thing, which is to privatize the government.
    • _heimdall 2y ago
      > which is to privatize the government. That isn't clear yet from what I've seen. Destroying or knee capping departments is one thing rebuilding them as private or functionally private organizations is another level. If they are planning to do this I don't think we've seen any direct signs of it yet, though I don't know how it could be anything other than fascism at that point.
    • fragmede 2y ago
      Privatize it, or just not have it at all?
      • behringer 2y ago
        Yes you're correct, both are involved.