Elon Musk and his tiny, intrepid Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are ripping through DC like a small herd of bulls through a cheap Chinese tchotchke shop.  It is magnificent to watch.

I look forward to each and every update.  I never have to wait long, because they arrive in rapid-fire succession.  On Friday, this outstanding news landed…:

“Elon Musk has found his next target: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

“Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the CFPB….Musk’s allies sought access to information technology systems and communicated with staff….Three Musk allies, some of whom are tied to his Department of Government Efficiency, have now embedded with the consumer bureau, according to the CFPB’s employees union.

“Musk posted ‘CFPB RIP’ with a tombstone emoji on his social media site X a few hours later, raising the prospect that the consumer protection agency could be the next U.S. Agency for International Development, which he has said should ‘die.’”

Yes, frigging please.  Musk shuttering the CFPB is yet another Promise Made-Promise Kept: (more…)