President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has spawned legislation, a House subcommittee and a podcast.
It boasts a pair of billionaire co-chairs, a chief counsel with decades of experience in Republican politics and the full backing of the incoming president — who has likened it to a secret government project during World War II that produced the first atomic bomb.
But despite all of its public attention, the initiative remains a mystery.
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It has no statutory authority to fire people, cancel spending or issue policy guidance. That’s increasingly raising questions about how it will meet its mission to redraw the government by axing trillions from federal coffers.
