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Reason
Jay Stooksberry

SHOCKING: Rip to government acronyms | Mind Blowing Facts

From the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Elon Musk is on the warpath to devour the alphabet soup of the federal bureaucracy. "We do need to delete entire agencies, as opposed to leave part of them behind," said the world's richest man and President Donald Trump's consigliere. 

One perk that may materialize from his disruptive (and legally dubious) actions is the downfall of one obnoxious governmental institution: abbreviations. 

"Acronyms seriously suck," read the subject line of an email Musk sent to his entire SpaceX team. In his email, he explained how the "excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication." 

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