Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite so easy for a president to simply end an organization that was created and funded each year by Congress,

Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs, sparking widespread public outcry and challenging the very role of Congress to create the nation’s laws and pay its bills.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are applying Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos to the US government.

Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on 7,500 federal offices nationwide.