Odaily Planet Daily News: Time Magazine uses Elon Musk as the cover character this time, and publishes the article "Elon Musk's War on Washington". In the cover, Musk is wearing a suit and sitting behind a luxurious wooden desk that symbolizes power (or imitates the perseverance desk in the US President's Office). Behind him is the US flag on the left and the presidential flag on the right, suggesting that Musk is deeply bound to presidential power and American politics. According to the article: On one side is an agency with a 64-year history, a budget of $35 billion, and its mission is clearly defined by federal law; on the other side is Musk's political destruction team to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. They call themselves members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group of temporary staff with no charter, no website, and no clear legal authorization.
Their power comes from Musk, the richest man on the planet, who has been given the task of dismantling most of the structure of the federal bureaucracy - cutting budgets, weakening the civil service system, and depriving independent agencies of the ability to hinder the president's goals.