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American entrepreneur and head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Ilon Musk said that many federal government agencies should be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump 's efforts to radically restructure the United States government. Reuters reported on February 13 that.

"We really need to eliminate whole agencies, not leave some of them in place. Just leaving some of them behind is easy. But it's like leaving a weed," the publication quoted Musk as saying.

Which agencies should be eradicated, the billionaire did not specify. He noted that in the U.S. flourishes the power of bureaucracy, not democracy, and he sees the task of the presidential administration in reducing the size of the federal government.

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The day before, NBC News reported that Trump signed an executive order expanding Musk's powers within the framework of his activities in DOGE. On February 8, it became known that New York and 18 other states sued the administration of the American president over the DOGE program, accusing him of unauthorized access to federal systems.