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Elon Musk is not a natural-born American, can he even be a department head?
I dont know anything about the other guy.
no_hypocrisy
(49,041 posts)tritsofme
(18,642 posts)However that individual would be ineligible for the presidency and skipped over in the line of succession.
RockRaven
(16,445 posts)succession, they just get skipped over in the case where it would matter. At least that is how it has been interpreted in the past. With the weirdo corrupt dickheads in control of every branch, how it will be interpreted now... probably the same, but who knows?
tritsofme
(18,642 posts)RockRaven
(16,445 posts)the law is. What matters is who is going to force anyone else to do or not do something.
tritsofme
(18,642 posts)would sue and immediately win, if it even somehow came to that. The end.
haele
(13,602 posts)It's a vanity advisory department with a kewl name. I thought about it a bit, and remembered setting up a new government project of any type department isn't something that can be done in a couple weeks.
I doubt Congress will fund the implementation of a brand new department, even if they put it under GSA or some other actual Department.
*rump got lucky with Space Force, it was already a Command and the only money (granted, it was a lot of money) to be spent would be on the change in "the brand" - uniforms, stationary, logos, plaques, ect.
Musk's "DOGE" vanity think tank/advisory board would be at least quadruple the cost to wind up a department that would actually be able to implement changes. And it would still be 3 or 4 years before his office would be ready to do anything.
He's just getting an ego-boo advisory group. Whether or not they can actually implement anything is another story. He's going to have to spend most his own money to set it up and actually do anything within a year.
Haele
onenote
(44,772 posts)And the presidential succession act would have to be amended to add it.
It's only supposed to be around for less than two years. It's essentially a presidential commission, not an actual "department".
ColinC
(10,881 posts)But he can't be president.
I guess