Elon Musk said in a FOX Business interview that DOGE's cost-cutting efforts will reach $1 trillion in savings "unless we're stopped" and the group has made "good progress."

As I watch the world’s richest, most deeply interest-conflicted man gleefully slash the federal workforce and watch the predicted unintended and intended casualties mount, I am reminded of the Hippocratic Oath in medicine: “First, do no harm.” In medical school we learn very early that to heal our patients, first we must not make them worse.