Elon Musk's lambasting of the civil service from the Oval Office in February recalls, among other things, his taking the stage at February's Conservative Political Action Conference to yell "Chainsaw for bureaucracy!", and the not-joking statement about bureaucrats by Project 2025 architect, now-OMB head Russell Vought in 2023--"We want to put them in trauma"--both escalations in the boastings of cruelty toward the civil service.

Created by Douglas Lucas in mid-May 2025 as a footnote for his June 4, 2025 article at Rolling Stone titled Republican bill would legalize DOGE and let Trump dismantle everything: The Reorganizing Government Act is a longshot in the Senate, but that could change--and so would the separation of powers, as well as for his accompanying blog post with extra material. MSN and Yahoo republished the article without paywalls.