250205 Elon Musk is barreling into government with DOGE, raising unusual legal questions (NPR)

• correspond to: 일치하다 the price corresponds to the quality of the product) 
• corresponding: 일치하는, 상응하는 (the corresponding page number is on the left) 
• correspondence: 서신, 일치 (there is a corresponence between the two reports) 
• barrel into N: ~와 충돌하다

Elon Musk has launched a campaign from inside the federal government to radically upend agencies, exercising a level of control so sweeping that it is stunning former top White House officials, even in a political moment when many things are described as unprecedented.

• upend: 급진적으로, 거꾸로 뒤집다 (=invert) 
• sweeping: 전면적인, 지나치게 광범위한
• unprecedented: an/pre/si/den/tid 전례없는

Musk, the world's richest man and an adviser to President Trump, is leading a team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Despite the name, DOGE is part of the White House and not a Cabinet agency. In recent days it has gained access to the Treasury Department's payment systems, which are responsible for processing trillions of dollars of spending every year.

As part of its work, DOGE workers are helping the Trump administration explore drastic cuts to the Department of Education, including the option of trying to close the entire department, multiple government officials told NPR.

It comes as DOGE begins its shake-up of other swaths of the federal government. (DOGE가 연방정부의 다른 부분에서 변호를 시작할때, 일어나는 일이다)

• shake-up: 대대적인 개혁 (=reorganisation)
• shake up: 흔들어 뒤섞다, 개혁하다 (=reshuffle, revolutionize, restructure)
• swaths: 넓은 길, 긴 행렬, 다른 분야 

The Associated Press reported DOGE representatives have also gained access to classified information at the U.S. Agency for International Development, a decades-old foreign aid agency Musk says he plans to shut down. And now, Musk's cut-slashing unit is reported to be eyeing a way to gain access to the systems of the Small Business Administration, which gives loans and support to small firms, according to PBS News Hour.

• cut-slashing: 비용절감, 대폭 자르기
  • The company implemented a cut-slashing strategy to reduce expenses during the economic downturn.
    (회사는 경제 불황 동안 비용을 절감하기 위해 대폭적인 비용 절감 전략을 시행했다.)
• eyeing a way: 주시하다, 노려보다, 모색하다
  
  • The team is eyeing a way to increase efficiency in the production process.
    (팀은 생산 과정에서 효율성을 높일 방법을 모색하고 있다.)

"President Trump takes improving government efficiency very seriously. Obviously, although it is a humorous name, ironically, I think DOGE will have a very serious and significant impact on government waste and fraud and abuse, which is really astonishing in its scale and scope," Musk said during a live audio chat on his X platform on Sunday night.

Musk framed his vision of DOGE's work in ideological terms, disparaging the "tyranny of the bureaucracy" as unaccountable to American voters. Later in the conversation, he called for the "wholesale removal of regulations." Musk has a long history of sparring with and outright defying federal regulators who oversee his sprawling array of businesses.

As DOGE officials move quickly to get their hands on the inner workings of the federal government, Musk has been posting through it on X, the social media platform he owns, suggesting routine payments of the Treasury are violating the law and asserting that USAID is "a criminal organization" without providing evidence to support these claims. Musk did not return requests for comment.

 

• get their hands on N: N을 손에 넣다 
  • The hacker managed to get their hands on sensitive company data.
    (해커는 민감한 회사 데이터를 손에 넣는 데 성공했다.)
• get the motion: 동의를 받다
  • Once we get the motion, we can start implementing the plan.
    (우리가 동의를 얻으면 계획을 실행할 수 있다.)
• the inner workings: 내부구조, 작동방식

 

• post (something) through (method): (method)를 통해, (something)을 보내다
  • Make sure to post the letter through registered mail to ensure it's delivered safely.
    (편지가 안전하게 전달될 수 있도록 등기우편으로 보내세요.)

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285539/doge-musk-usaid-trump