See, what I told Elon is what's really great about the Doge effort is that it's a new paradigm. It's a paradigm shift. Because The framers of this grand system we have, they wanted a small federal government. They wanted most of the power reserved to the states. As we know, that's our system, right in federalism. And for the federal government to do its limited number of responsibilities, they expected Congress to have careful oversight over what was done. (25:34–25:42)
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