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.

Elon Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency is going to work with US aviation authorities to “rethink” the nation’s airspace, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.