Elon Musk is a force of nature. He has assembled the greatest fortune (more than $450 billion) in the history of mankind with a maniacal work ethic and fearlessness in challenging orthodoxies or tradition. He is a one-man show at SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly twitter), and is poised to dominate artificial intelligence. Mr. Musk is a marvelous combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison in the private sector.

We should rejoice that Mr. Musk has taken his superhuman talents to focus on the ultra-bloated federal government, which is bankrupt by any private business metric: a $36 trillion national debt, chronic budget deficits exceeding $1 trillion, millions of deadweight federal employees and contractors, and sub-mediocrity as the workplace ethos.

The federal Leviathan is so huge, it needs Mr. Musk's blunderbuss approach. A scalpel would take decades before real change could be discerned. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has adventurously ordered a freeze on trillions in government spending, offered to buy out the contracts of 2.3 million government employees (tens of thousands have already accepted), and closed the doors of or downsized the useless U.S. Agency for International Development, the........

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