Donald Trump’s recently acquired buddy Elon Musk seems to have developed the idea of a sort of cartoon superhero agency designed to destroy the Deep State–or maybe it was just a joke, suggests Decrypt’s Liz Napolitano.

Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead Trump's Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk. Learn more about his family, education, career and net worth.

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”