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Musk vows to ‘delete entire agencies’ in US state-shrinking mission
Musk vows to ‘delete entire agencies’ in US state-shrinking mission
ELON MUSK vowed today that his Department of Government Efficiency will “delete entire [US government] agencies” as it seeks to make massive spending cuts and reshape the state.
The aggressive bid to shrink the state echoes that of Argentinian President Javier Milei, who has reduced the number of government ministries from 18 to nine, with major departments including health, education and labour abolished, their reduced responsibilities transferred to a Health & Human Capital Ministry as thousands of civil servants are laid off.
Mr Musk was addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai by video link.
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