Comment by therealdrag0

Budgets are defined by the president and approved by congress; both are republicans controled. Why not turn off the tap in the traditional way instead of all this chaos?

They should be able to tell the departments their budgets getting cut and let the distributed leaders and experts evaluate the detailed logistics of how to manage the resulting budget in their own department. Elon going like by line in the US budget is like my CFO looking at my micro-service’s memory allocation, just seems silly.

Leaders should be setting high level goals and budgets and those on the ground can make the necessary adjustments to make them match.