President-Unelect Musk and his oligarch sidekick, Vivek Ramaswamy, are not waiting for anything like Donald Trump’s inauguration or actual authority before getting to work at slashing the federal government so they and their billionaire buddies can get bigger tax cuts. According to The Washington Post, Musk and Ramaswamy have been “sending representatives” from their non-existent DOGE "department" to "agencies across the federal government” for “preliminary interviews.” That includes the Treasury, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services departments and the Internal Revenue Service. Let’s be clear: Neither Musk nor Ramaswamy have any legit reason to do this.