The article excerpted below is excellent. It depicts how Elon Musk send his team of young coders into the administrative state and enabled Trump to begin dismantling it, saving taxpayers billions of dollars. The article’s shortcomings? It celebrates certain types of unconstitutional spending. It assumes this activity will continue unchecked ad infinitum. But otherwise, it is a great celebration of what is occurring.
This wasn’t a hack. This wasn’t a breach. This was authorized disruption…
By 6 AM, Treasury’s career officials began arriving for work. They found systems they thought impenetrable already mapped. Networks they believed hidden already exposed. Power structures built over decades revealed in hours.
Their traditional defenses—slow-walking decisions, leaking damaging stories, stonewalling requests—proved useless against an opponent moving faster than their systems could react. By the time they drafted their first memo objecting to this breach, three more systems had already been mapped…
This wasn’t just another transition. This wasn’t just another reform effort. This was the start of something unprecedented: a revolution powered by preparation, presidential will, and technological precision…
While media focused on campaign rallies and political theater, a quiet army was being assembled. In offices across DC, veteran strategists mapped the administrative state’s pressure points. Think tanks developed action plans for every agency. Policy institutes trained rapid deployment teams. Former appointees shared battlefield intelligence from previous administrations’ failures.
By Inauguration Day, over 1,000 pre-vetted personnel stood ready—each armed with clear objectives, mapped legal authorities, and direct lines to support networks. This wasn’t just staffing; it was a battle plan decades in the making.
“This is the new normal,” Vice President JD Vance declared from his West Wing office, studying real-time data flows across agency systems. “He’s having the time of his life,” he added, referring to the President’s relentless drive. “We’ve done more in two weeks than others did in years.”
The secret wasn’t just speed—it was precision. Instead of waiting for Senate confirmations, the transition team prioritized non-Senate-confirmed positions. While Democrats prepared for traditional confirmation battles over cabinet posts, an army of aligned personnel was already moving into place. Strategic positions were identified. Legal authorities were mapped. Support networks were established.
“We don’t have a lot of time,” the President reminded his team daily. “Four years is a lot of time in political life but it’s not a long time in real life.”
This urgency drove innovation. When DOGE’s young coders breached Treasury’s payment systems, pre-positioned legal teams neutralized resistance within hours. When career officials tried revoking system access, they discovered DOGE’s authority came from levels they couldn’t challenge. When leaks surfaced, rapid-response units fed counter-narratives to alternative media almost instantly…
The permanent bureaucracy never saw it coming. They were prepared for resistance. They were ready for protests. They had plans for leaks and legal challenges. But they had no defense against an opponent who had spent years preparing for this moment.
This wasn’t just about filling seats—it was about building a machine designed to transform American governance. Every position mattered. Every appointment carried weight. And behind it all stood a president counting down not years or months, but weeks and days, driving his team forward with relentless energy.
The foundation was set. And the revolution was just beginning.
USAID fell next. No midnight raids this time. No secret algorithms. Just a simple memo on agency letterhead: “Pursuant to Executive Authority…”
Career officials panicked—and for good reason. Created by Executive Order in 1961, USAID could be dissolved with a single presidential signature. No congressional approval needed. No court challenges possible. Just one pen stroke, and six decades of carefully constructed financial networks would face sunlight.
“Pull this thread,” a senior official warned, watching DOGE’s algorithms crawl through USAID’s databases, “and a lot of sweaters start unraveling.”
The resistance was immediate—and telling. Career officials who had barely blinked at Treasury’s exposure now worked through weekends to block DOGE’s access. Democratic senators who had ignored other moves suddenly demanded emergency hearings. Former USAID officials flooded media outlets with warnings about “institutional knowledge loss” and “diplomatic catastrophe.”
But their traditional defenses crumbled against DOGE’s new playbook. While bureaucrats drafted memos about “proper procedures,” the young coders were already mapping payment flows. While senators scheduled hearings, pre-positioned personnel were implementing new transparency protocols. While media allies prepared hit pieces, DOGE’s algorithms exposed decades of questionable transactions…
“The administrative state runs on two things,” a senior advisor explained, watching patterns emerge across DOGE’s screens. “Control of information and money flows.” His eyes tracked new connections forming in real-time. “We’re not just exposing their networks—we’re rewriting their DNA.”
The cracks began showing in unexpected places. A career EPA director, tears streaming: “Everything we built…” A USAID veteran, hands shaking: “They’re inside all of it…” A Treasury lifer, closing his office: “They move faster than we can think.”
DOGE’s algorithms weren’t just programs—they were archaeology tools, excavating decades of buried networks. Each data point connected to another. Each discovery revealed new targets. Each pattern exposed larger systems.
“It’s beautiful,” one of the coders whispered, watching connections form across his screen. “Like watching a galaxy map itself.”
For the permanent bureaucracy, this wasn’t just change. It was an extinction-level event. Their power came from controlling who got paid, when they got paid, and what they got paid for. Now those controls were evaporating like dawn burning away darkness.
The pattern was devastating in its simplicity:
- Map the money flows
- Deploy aligned personnel
- Expose the networks
- Restructure the systems
By the time bureaucrats drafted objections to one breach, three more had already occurred.
The revolution wasn’t just spreading. It was accelerating…
The transformation was measurable. In just two weeks:
- Tens of thousands of redundant programs identified
- Billions in waste exposed
- Hundreds of unauthorized initiatives halted
- Countless local projects unleashed
But the real metric? Trust in government rising for the first time in 50 years.
The revolution spread with surgical precision:
- Real-time tracking replaced quarterly reports
- Algorithmic oversight replaced review boards
- Local solutions replaced federal mandates
- Results replaced process
“He’s done more in two weeks than Biden did in four years and Obama did in eight,” Vance noted from his West Wing office. “But this isn’t just about speed. This isn’t just about tech. This isn’t just about personnel. It’s all three, perfectly aligned.”…
The permanent bureaucracy had long operated on a simple assumption: presidents come and go, but they remain. That assumption now lay shattered, replaced by a new reality: when preparation meets presidential determination, nothing is permanent.
“They thought we’d slow down,” Vance said, studying real-time data flows across agencies. “They thought we’d get bogged down in process. They thought we’d play by their rules.”
He smiled. “Instead, we’re just getting started.”…
“The administrative state was built over decades,” a senior advisor explained, watching new patterns emerge across the displays. “Built to resist change. Built to outlast presidents. Built to preserve power.”
He paused, tracking a particularly interesting data flow. “But they never imagined this. They built walls against political attacks. Defenses against media exposure. Shields against congressional oversight.”
“They never prepared for algorithms that could map everything. For personnel pre-positioned everywhere. For a president who counts every week like it’s his last.”
The numbers tell the story: In Treasury – networks mapped, waste exposed, systems rewired At USAID – decades of hidden flows revealed, power structures dismantled Across agencies – redundancies eliminated, authorities realigned, missions refocused…
This isn’t just reform. This isn’t just change. This is American governance reimagined.”The pace is going to be the same,” Vice President Vance declared this week. “It’s just the priorities that are going to change.”
The permanent bureaucracy built their administrative state over decades, brick by bureaucratic brick. They thought it would last forever. They thought it was too big to map, too complex to understand, too entrenched to change.
They were wrong.
Four young coders with laptops proved that. One thousand pre-positioned personnel proved that. A president counting weeks proved that…
The administrative state finally met its match: preparation plus presidential will plus technological precision.
SHAZAM ! They don’t know what hit them. Please more and harder.
There is so much about this administration that extends vicarious pleasure, Fred. It has been really good overall. And this part of it is simply amazing. We had never seen this done before.
Brilliantly planned and executed.
“The cracks began showing in unexpected places. A career EPA director, tears streaming: “Everything we built…” A USAID veteran, hands shaking: “They’re inside all of it…” A Treasury lifer, closing his office: “They move faster than we can think.””
Yes, JayCee, it appears Trump’s people were determined to pull this off and to make it work. This is the first time in our lifetime we have seen this. Reagan came in with major budget cut proposals during early 1981 when he began, but this is different.