- Elon Musk has channeled former Democratic President Bill Clinton’s “Reinventing Government” initiative in defending DOGE’s cost-slashing efforts. But a top aide during the Clinton administration says DOGE is going about it completely wrong—and has a warning for the cost-cutter-in-chief.
Elon Musk’s efforts to remove government agencies by the roots is the latest in a long line of similar efforts. Every president since Ronald Regan has tried to make government smaller, better, more efficient. Just one was successful, as Andrew Cockburn recently wrote in an essay for Harper’s: Bill Clinton, the only president since the 1950s to preside over a shrinking federal workforce.
