Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will find it’s not so easy to radically downsize government. Their task, though, will be a worthy one if they take the right advice.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that the two financial titans will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency … to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies. … [They will] drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”