To be fair, having nine entire departments to increase efficiency is the most government thing I've ever heard.
Well that's not what they do. They do the usual government things, which are to waste money, possibly while acting as a millstone on taxpayers, and definitely while protecting and growing their own bureaucracy.
Ironically, probably the best thing they could do toward accomplishing their mission is abolish themselves.
Look, I get that Musk is a cringy sperg with a questionable, at best, personal life, but I got legitimately MATI during Null's take on DOGE. Really what Musk and Vivek are describing is a Department of FIRING people. Yes, 'efficiency' is in the gay 'DOGE' name, but if you listen to what Vivek is talking about it is eliminating large swaths of Federal agencies, functions, and the corresponding employees, along with a legal arguments for being able to do so. Efficiency starts with not having legions of useless employees either doing nothing, or even worse, finding more B.S. to inflict upon productive citizens.
As for the Federal agencies/departments that Null was rattling through, none of those are actually concerned with the largest form of waste, excess Federal employees, or probably any waste at all. Plus he had some of them absolutely backwards from what they actually do. Pretty sure that one is actually the Dept. of 'Federal worker job protection,' not efficiency. Putting GSA in the same sentence as efficiency is a fucking joke. Somewhat ironic that minutes later he floated his theory, possibly/probably right, on the IRS being the most bloated organization in history. These two sets of claims don't square with each other.