Letters to the Editor
There are legal ways to enact fiscal responsibility. Having an unelected billionaire target federal agencies isn’t one of them.
Business
OpenAI’s board rejected a $97.4-billion bid by an Elon Musk-led investment group to buy the San Francisco startup. OpenAI’s board chair said the company is not for sale.
Readers decry the spectacle of Elon Musk standing in the Oval Office taking questions from reporters with President Trump at his side.
A reader says the Constitution vests the president with executive authority, and the president has authorized Elon Musk’s work.
Politics
Elon Musk wants to ‘delete entire agencies.’ With Trump’s blessing, the billionaire consolidated control over large swaths of the federal government.
‘Everyone should be furious about Musk’s intrusion into our government, our data and our lives,’ says a reader. ‘This is not normal. This is not constitutional.’
The states’ lawsuit claims that Musk has “roamed through the federal government unraveling agencies, accessing sensitive data, and causing mass chaos and confusion.”
Opinion
The billionaire got more of what he wanted out of the spending bill than President-elect Donald Trump did. But his role and reasoning raise a host of questions.
Steve Davis is helping recruit staff at DOGE, Elon Musk’s effort to reduce government waste, in addition to his day job as president of Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company.
Billionaire Elon Musk was the focus of many in Washington this week, as his Department of Government Efficiency slashed at the federal bureaucracy.