Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who worked closely with Musk during the Tesla CEO's time as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency, expressed disapproval toward how Musk handled firings at DOGE. In an interview with "The Axios Show"that aired on Friday, Lutnick told show host Mike Allen that Musk approached DOGE in the same way he approached Twitter, now X, where he rapidly cut 80% of staff, and that Musk "thought that example worked for government."
Erickson also nuked Lutnick for wanting to bring in 600,000 Chinese students to study at U.S. colleges. Howard Lutnick is the guy who convinced Donald Trump we need 600,000 Chinese communist students to stay in the United States. He's in charge of the socialist takeover of Intel. He's in charge of tariffs. He's in charge of letting Chinese communist students notice that he's embracing Chinese-style state capitalism, fumed Erickson on his show. That's what they call it: this takeover, Intel state capitalism.
