The internal policy of the United States is in a state of shock, because Elon Musk must be established as a central player in the Trump administration, without the electoral mandate, without the control of the congress and with unprecedented access to the financial gears of the ‘federal state .
With the blessing of Donald Trump, he now directs the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), an organization that is supposed to trace public waste, but that is strongly criticized, both for their opacity and for its influence on important decisions. “He does a good job,” the president said Sunday night, defending his choice to give such a crucial role to Elon Musk.
But what is happening exactly?
In fact, it is another announcement that really caused an earthquake in Washington. In a nutshell, Elon Musk decreed, during a conversation about X, the closure of the American Agency for International Development (USAID), a key institution of US diplomacy with a …