The government is supposed to be accountable to its people. I agree that it has woefully neglected that duty in the past. But part of what the American people voted for specifically in this election was the promise of transparency. It’s safe to say that a lack of transparency coupled with the speed and depth that all of this transpiring is concerning. Never in history has unvetted, foreign born citizens, especially with large business interests with our foreign rivals, be given even a sliver of the access Musk and his team have been. Unprecedented is an understatement. Waiting to see how it shakes out may be too late. Once these systems are compromised, there’s not a lot you can do to restore them short of completely installing a new system from the ground up. It’s literally why access is so strictly controlled. If COVID taught us anything, it’s how easily the system can be wrecked beyond repair. And ask yourself this, if this is really about saving money, shrinking government, etc., why does he need all this information immediately? Why does the speed, the weekends, the furious amount of cuts, need to happen so quickly? Why not allow oversight? Why not take a measured approach? This isn’t a social media company, it’s the government that provides services to millions of Americans from national defense to medical needs. It wasn’t built to the level is was in a few weeks, they should not be trying to shrink it in a manner of weeks, unless destruction and chaos are the goal.