There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in #America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/

DOGE’s true purpose...

The only thing these policies will certainly do, & are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior & values of the #CivilService.

Suddenly, & not accidentally, people who work for the #American federal #government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Doge #Politics #News #US #USPol

The Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor for 2024 is out & shows over the period of the Tory Govt. there was an initial reduction in civil service number but by the end of their decade & a half in power, the civil service was bigger than when they took power; so much for the party of 'small government'.

The IfG also have some observations on how the civil service will need to be re-engineered to deliver on Labour's new 'mission centred' policies.

#CivilService
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/whitehall-monitor-2025