“There’s a roughly 450 federal agencies of one kind or another,†Elon Musk said. “That’s almost an average of two agencies per year since the formation of the United States. I mean how many agencies do you really need to run a country? 99? Not 450, that’s for sure.†Elon Musk said unless the agencies are entirely deleted, there's always a possibility of them growing back.
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