DOGE Can’t Do It All. Here’s What It Can Do.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have grand ambitions for their supercharged government consultancy.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is going to solve the U.S.’s debt problem. It’s going to dramatically reduce the government’s power and slash the size of its workforce. And it’s going to crack down on that perpetual, easily named enemy: waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.

Or, so they say.

Here’s the thing: those are completely different objectives that can be in conflict.