What do Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Plan to do With DOGE?
Al Jazeera reports, Musk wants to slash US government spending by a third, and Ramaswamy wants to cut 75% of the federal workforce. Can they?
Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics weighs in.
“What’s happening here is problematic. Elon Musk has built-in obvious conflicts of interest because the companies that he is associated with have relationships with the very government that he is now going to come in and try to make more efficient,” Skeet said.
Skeet warned that a skeleton staff manning the federal government “will impact how consumers will interact with the government – whether or not airplanes will be safe to fly and cars will be regulated in the correct way and sort of just will people get their tax returns on time”.
“Having somebody who is a beneficiary of government decision-making, you know, in a role to decide which parts of government to streamline, is somebody who is fundamentally conflicted,” Skeet said.
Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by Al Jazeera.