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In Donald Trump’s America, it’s tech bros versus deep state
With tech moguls Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the helm, can the new Department of Government Efficiency hack bureaucracy?
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At the helm of the new Department of Government Efficiency are two figures cut from the cloth of Silicon Valley ambition: Mr Elon Musk (left) and Mr Vivek Ramaswamy.
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WASHINGTON – Within weeks of taking over as president for the first time in 2017, Donald Trump hit an unanticipated roadblock.
Hundreds of civil servants in the nation’s capital were rising in open defiance of his administration. The State Department’s “dissent” channel – where staff can register opposition without fear of reprisals – was flooded with objections to the new refugee policy.
