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Many Republicans in Congress loved what they were seeing: a leader willing to carve out waste and provide real scrutiny of a federal bureaucracy that has become too big, too liberal and too unaccountable.
In the absence of a scalpel, they’ll take a wrecking ball. An explosion has rocked the federal government, in the form of Elon Musk.
In reality, the pressure has been building for decades. Over the past generation, Congress has grown too distracted, too ineffectual or too lazy to hold federal agencies accountable. That has created a political opening for President Trump to seize control of the federal bureaucracy, thoughtlessly and indiscriminately hacking agencies and their work forces. While congressional Republicans may be cheering those efforts now, they could come to regret them once they realize the cost to their own power. Some are already waking up to it.