DOGE and Elon Musk keep making mistakes. How many can America afford?

The chaotic effort to purge thousands of workers from the U.S. government echoes Musk’s early days at Twitter, only with much higher stakes.

“We will make mistakes,” said Elon Musk during an Oval Office press conference last week, a toddler son slung on his shoulders like a shield. “But we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”