Comment by nprateem
Before the courts can catch up, they lose power in the Senate or those affected can organise. There's also something to be said for disorienting your opponents. Plus it gets things done faster without dragging it out. It's wins all round.
GP: They absolutely will make something good out of it, but for their benefit not the average American.
Not even.
At this point Musk is Wile E. Coyote. He's run out of road, so he's attempting to improvise an Acme Degovernmentizer to levitate.
He's not interested in "cutting waste" but in covering his ass so US Gov can't Enron his doughy face into prison, where it belongs.
But it's going to explode, like everything else he's ever been solely and personally in charge of.