Musk's DOGE has been on a tear across the federal government in recent days. On Wednesday, he announced that the FAA was next.

In the late evening hours of Jan. 29, a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a descending American Airlines passenger plane over the Potomac River en route to the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. There were no survivors.

First Buddy” Elon Musk announced in a Wednesday tweet that he will now turn his Department of Government Efficiency minions loose on the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system to make “rapid safety upgrades.