Have governments become useless? On the reality television show The Apprentice, America got used to hearing Donald Trump’s favourite catchphrase: “You’re fired!”. Now, thousands of US officials could hear the same thing.
Trump tells Musk to ‘slash and burn’
Radical: The boss of Tesla and the social media site X, Elon Musk (above) has claimed that it would be possible to cut “at least $2 trillion” from US government spending by eradicating waste. Glossary
Trillion - One thousand times bigger than a billion.