Coral Davenport

And in many ways, at least at the beginning, vote was not sort of in the center.

He was kind of sidelined.

He was extremely frustrated.

And what Musk was doing drove vote crazy.

Sure.

So early on in the Doge era, Doge informed all federal employees that every Friday they had to send an email listing five things that they had accomplished that week.

But the basic process by which that email had been sent out was not legal.

And there's a lot of federal agencies where people work on things that cannot be publicly disclosed.

You know, it's the kind of thing you could probably send out in a private company.

But in the federal government, it set off all these legal tripwires, caused all these problems.

And crucially, what Doge was doing was sparking off a lot of litigation that...

Vote did not want and had not planned.

Vote wants litigation.

He wants lawsuits, but he has a very specific roadmap of exactly how he wants those lawsuits to go.

The Doge was just like breaking stuff and cutting stuff all over the place, doing things that Vote knew were illegal and were causing all this litigation that he didn't even want.

Absolutely.

He is the consummate disciplined executor in every way.

The opposite, I think, of how Musk operates.

And that's why once Musk finally blew up with the president and left town, that really is where we have seen the rise of Russell vote.

So as soon as Musk leaves, you start to see Vogt enact this stepwise approach to legally locking down a lot of the cuts that he wants to put into place.