The Boys of DOGE
(Illustration by The Free Press; Elon Musk photo by Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Before you reach for the Valium, it’s worth remembering this isn’t the first time twentysomethings have helped lead a revolution inside the nation’s capital.
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Meet the lads who will help decide the fate of America’s administrative state. Many of them are barely old enough to order a drink. And yet these engineers staffing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, appear to be running the current Hunger Games for the federal bureaucracy.
Or so it would seem from recent profiles of the young engineers selected by Musk to cut the fat out of such bureaucracies as the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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