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US President Donald Trump listens as far-right billionaire buffoon Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, February 11, 2025, in Washington
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.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS