In June, Elon Musk attended a free-market confab via Zoom to toast Argentina’s regulation-slashing president, Javier Milei.
Musk used the opportunity to laud Milei’s progress in “deleting entire departments” of the Argentine bureaucracy — and to extol the virtues of deregulation.
“There has to be some garbage collection process for removing rules and regulations in order for society to function and not to get hardening of the arteries just to the point where you can’t do anything,” Musk said.
Musk’s comments provide a glimpse into the multibillionaire’s vision for President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Musk pitched the idea of DOGE to Trump during his presidential campaign, which he supported with $200 million and numerous public appearances. Musk is now slated to co-lead the new initiative with pharmaceuticals entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
