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- Elon Musk and Donald Trump, known as builders, have shifted to demolition through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
- DOGE has made sweeping cuts across multiple agencies, including Energy, Veterans Affairs, Education, FDA, CDC, NIH, and USAID.
- Cuts at the National Nuclear Security Administration led to layoffs of scientists and safety officials, later reversed.
- At Veterans Affairs, buyout offers to underpaid doctors and nurses caused staffing crises before exemptions were issued.
- DOGE terminated $1 billion in Education contracts, gutting nonpartisan research studies on student achievement.
- USAID staff was reduced from 10,000 to about 600, drawing criticism from even prominent aid skeptics like William Easterly.
- Musk's approach of 'move fast, cut stuff, reverse if needed' is criticized as reckless and harmful to global health and safety.