Don’t bet against the Department of Government Efficiency on deregulation

Doubting the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has become the latest fad among Beltway insiders. Skeptics on the left unsurprisingly want DOGE to fail for ideological reasons. More unexpected are conservative and libertarian cynics who, while wishing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy all the luck in the world, are dubious of success.

To these skeptics, no outsiders could understand Washington’s tangled web of statutes, regulations and administrative practices well enough to...