The DOGE's goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget is unrealistic, and it seems the hope to delete agencies is similarly far-fetched.

Yes, there is a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. But overstaffing should not be the first thing on the agenda of the Department of Government Efficiency, which Donald Trump has said he will create and appoint Musk and Ramaswamy to lead.

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the recently announced co-leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal