I see a lot of references to Elon Musk and the “Department of Government Efficiency” in the news. There is no Department of Government Efficiency. There is a process to establish a new government department, including an act of Congress.
News media, including The Columbian, need to put the word Department in quotation marks, or in some way make it clear that this is not a real department. Nobody elected Elon Musk to any federal office. Nobody appointed him to head this department, which doesn’t really exist.
