A home office ban for civil servants – DiePresse.com

Elon Musk has turned on the turbo: In the final phase of the election campaign and especially since Donald Trump’s election, the richest man in the world is becoming hyperactive – be it as a companion and advisor to Trump, be it in postings on his platform X. And finally he has In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, together with Vivek Ramaswamy, presented radical austerity plans – a concept for staff cuts, de-bureaucratization and deregulation. “The excessive bureaucracy is an “existential threat” to US democracy,” is their conclusion.

Trump had trusted Musk and Ramaswamy, a pharmaceutical multimillionaire, former rival in the primary election campaign and later supporter, to chair an efficiency commission that will develop proposals for streamlining the state by July 4, 2026 – the 250th birthday of the USA should. “We will work as external volunteers, not as federal officials or employees,” is how she describes her status.

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