All the while claiming it's an audit, cutting waste, etc., they are redirecting revenue streams to their own pet projects and more tax cuts. They are not concerned with the deficit. To them that's just a number, an abstract. They are in essence hoping to take over the world. Prove me wrong.

and together they are dissembling a government for the people and assembling a government for themselves. They are 'drowning it in the bathtub' - a far right republican wet dream.

No - trump wants no oversight, no one to object, no journalists to report upon the extent of law-breaking and criminality he will engage in. Elon also is a megalomaniac and has his own agenda (space X, AI)

These types would be sidled up to whoever was in power