Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable explanation of why Musk-Trump are dismantling the federal government and how they're accomplishing this:
"Last month, journalist Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich noted that Curtis Yarvin, a thinker popular with the technological elite currently aligned with the religious extremists at Project 2025, laid out a plan in 2022 to gut the U.S. government and replace it with a dictatorship."