Government efficiency, Musk-style

Some Silicon Valley leaders and investors who have long itched to apply their startup toolkit to government see a big opening in the Republican victory, with Elon Musk taking charge of a Trump administration federal efficiency initiative. Many Trump partisans in tech see Musk's takeover and transformation of Twitter as a model for how to go about reshaping the federal government.  A wave of tech talent descended on D.C. and the federal government 15 years ago when Barack Obama took office, eager to put their web savvy and coding skills to work to make government run better. During the first Trump administration, Jared Kushner ran the Office of American Innovation, intended to bring private-sector know-how into government, and many tech CEOs sat on advisory councils organized by the Trump White House. We don't yet know what form Musk's government-efficiency project will take, but both Trump and Musk see themselves as disrupters, and they want to place a big bet on shaking up the bureaucratic status quo.