The Daily Populous Thursday May 22nd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Aggravating_Money992

In March, Musk walked into what he understood to be an ambush, facing heated backlash from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Donald Trump had arranged the volatile meeting: “Bring them all in here, and we’ll have at it,” Trump said, according to The Atlantic. The advisers were frustrated with what they felt was Musk overstepping into their agencies.

Musk’s tenure wasn’t a total failure, according to former federal employees. He had managed to force out some of the federal workforce and shutter agencies (while “traumatizing the employees who remain,” The Atlantic reported). But ultimately, his Department of Government Efficiency’s Silicon Valley, hacking-and-slashing approach to reshaping the government failed to make bureaucracy more efficient. And some of his haphazardly introduced policies, such as requiring federal employees to submit weekly bullet-pointed progress reports, have quietly fallen by the wayside.

“He had some missteps in all of these agencies, which would have been fine because everyone acknowledges that when you’re moving fast and breaking things, not everything is going to go right. But it’s different when you do that and you don’t even have the buy-in of the agency you’re setting on fire,” one outside Trump adviser told The Atlantic.

redditckulous on May 21st, 2025 at 23:13 UTC »

Left? He had a meeting at the Pentagon and attended a meeting between Trump and the leader of South Africa TODAY. The DOD referred to him as “presidential advisor” TODAY.

80s_dystopia_is_now on May 21st, 2025 at 22:20 UTC »

Musk gutted every agency investigating him, got the investigations called off, got his hands on the data of tens of millions of Americans, and still have people loyal to him working in a high powered government agency with no oversight.

How the hell do I become that kind of "utter failure"?

2_Spicy_2_Impeach on May 21st, 2025 at 22:12 UTC »

Lots of offices investigating him dealing with the fallout of him crippling the same agencies and some new government contracts?

Yeah, wasn't a failure as much as it actually should have been.