Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is running rampant through Washington at the moment. The group, created by executive order, has been trying to close down the U.S. Agency for International Development, a humanitarian agency, and has reportedly gained direct access to the Treasury Department system that distributes federal payments. (Whether either of these acts—or numerous others it’s taken—are legal is very much TBD.) For all the headlines it’s generated, though, little is known about how many...