BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - At Argentina's Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation, two piles of laws to be streamlined or cut sit on a wooden desk near an Elon Musk biography and a figurine of libertarian President Javier Milei with his iconic chainsaw.

Elon Musk’s team of Stasi programmers at DOGE are feeding highly sensitive data from the Department of Education through artificial intelligence tools, according to an extremely predictable, yet still shocking, report from the Washington Post. The plan, according to the Post, is for DOGE to do the same thing at every federal agency.

The electric-car maker, the main source of the mercurial billionaire’s wealth, is relying on China to stay profitable as sales sink elsewhere.