DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump Administration, is getting a lot of headlines, but the news coming from it may not benefit long-term reforms that virtually all Americans agree are necessary in order to expedite more effective governing.  That will require streamlining and enhancing individual responsibility and accountability by civil servants, instead of strict adherence to outdated rules.  DOGE seems hellbent on taking an indiscriminate chainsaw to the government itself instead of pruning and cutting back in strategic ways and bringing more fluidity to the process.  Philip K. Howard is the Chair of commongood.org and has been a leader on matters of government and legal reforms in America.  He has been authoring books for years describing what needs to be done to enhance the performance of government and holding political leaders to account, rather than having them perform poorly because the system was designed to thwart individual initiative and accountability.  He will give you a more cogent illustration of what needs to be done than anything you’ve heard from Donald Trump or Elon Musk.