Analysis: DC Plane Crash Trump’s ‘A Business as Sarkar’ highlights the flaws of the playbook

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It is one of the more clearly flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right -handed man Elon Musk: that government should run like a business.

Coordination! streamlined! Above these, Capacity – It is an operative term that will help the federal government to convert a hawking, bodied bureaucracy to a agile machine, such as swaping the 1995 Compac Desktop PC for the 2025 MacBook Pro.

Of course, Trump and Musk are applied to a commercial playbook on something that is definitely No A business. Governments do not work for profit, and the services they provide are not to wow shareholders or go viral on tickets. Good government should not pay attention to anyone, so that Americans do not need to think twice whether it is safe to get on a commercial flight or drink water from their taps.

It is not to be said that government agencies are fully calibrated. But not all excesses can be written as unnecessary red tape. A major commission on aviation safety, for one, was widely seen as a property in bringing the American industry into alignment. Trump dissolved it last week.

In less than two weeks of time, and it is clear that Trump is running the White House with the same dictatorial energy that he brought to his companies – almost all of which have been organized privately, in which some External boards or public shareholders are not to complete. It is also a style that also seems to suit musk, half a dozen private companies and a public unit, Tesla (where they have piled up their board with loyal and where they regularly have prominent with shareholders) Let’s look after

In the name of efficiency, the President and Kasturi cleaning are putting in a familiar show of the house – a strategy so clearly after Musk’s previous efforts, they, they, they Did not even bother to change the subject line.

One day, head of The Federal Aviation Administration, who publicly collided with musk on issues related to SpaceX, stepped down. The post remained vacant for nine days. It was only after 67 people died in a mid -two collision over the Pottomac River in Washington, Trump announced the appointment of an FAA veteran Chris Rocello, who recently announced to run an aviation business lobby to lead the agency. .

On its second day at the office, Trump fired the heads of the Transport Safety Administration and Coast Guard, making both their conditions shortened.

Three days, all members of an important aviation security committee received a memorandum, According to APSaying that the Homeland Security Department was referring to the group as part of the commitment to eliminate the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities give priority to our national security. ” (Advisor, by the way, the Congress was ordered on Lockerbi, Scotland in response to the PAN AM 103 bombing by the Congress, and the major groups in the aviation industry to advise TSA on the most effective security protocol Bringed with

Day seven, trillion in federal funding Was frozen Until indefinite. Day eight, the US government copied Musk’s Twitter Playbook when it Email 2 million federal workers With the offer to resign – once again promote confusion and nervousness.

Some of the 2 million workers were 11,500 air-traffic controllers who have been thinner for years, often overtime work and struggling with burnouts. Last year, FAA said it was Still small 3,000 controllersDespite the increase in recruitment.

Ten days, and strong bureaucracy – people tasked the aircraft to keep the air in the air, ensuring that the water is potable, providing housing to the veterans, the number of any other essential services – is in chaos.

And when the cause of aircraft accident, a few miles from the White House near Reagan National Airport, is not yet known, it is testing the new administration’s response to the crisis on its own door.

Unexpectedly, Trump missed on a well -worn page of Playbook, Piles On its predecessors and suggesting that the initiative of diversity destroyed aviation standards – a statement that is not just true and, as usual, he did not give any evidence. Neither Vice President JD Vance, or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, or Transport Secretary Scene Dafi, who all kept the boss parrot.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of federal activists are trying to do their work, while weighing the proposal to respond to an email with only “resignation” and respond to an email to move away. Workers were offered to allow workers to leave with eight months’ salary and profit, although many people questioned whether the proposal was real or legal.

This pain appears to be part of the plan.

Russing Vough, Trump’s acting chief Management and Budget Office, has clearly stated in private speeches Last year detected by Propublica That “we want the bureaucrats to be painfully affected.”

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are seen as a rapid villain. We want their funding to stop … we want to put them into shock. ,