We are against space and rural broadband and EV subsidies now?

Can't speak for "we". Yes, I'm against diverting NASA funds to pay for a billionaire tech bro's Mars pipe-dream.
"rural broadband" = red state pork project that better enables Trump voters to spam Facebook memes and cruise Grinder. If Mississippi wants broadband Mississippi should pay for it.
If people want to spend their money on an overpriced S,E,X or Y model Tesla they are free to do so. Using tax money to prop up the stock price of a company ran by a never-grew-up frat boy seems like the definition of government inefficacy.

The Federal Reserve has about 22,000 employees.

You couldn't have picked a worse example.
The Fed manages a 7.5 trillion dollar portfolio.
It's self funding, and in most years writes a check for several hundred million dollars to The Treasury Department.

Just because it has a big number doesn't mean you need more people to manage it.
It's a gigantic number. For comparison Goldman Sacs manages 1.7 trillion and has over 45,000 employees.
But you're the one making the assertion. Tell us why the Fed should lose 90% of its' labor force. Surely there is more to your argument than, "computers go brrrr".

Of course we know her name, because we absolutely know what we're talking about and it's not just reflexive MAGA hate
I knew they pushed some lady out to be the frontman after Musk blew a joint with Rogan. Probably couldn't have recalled her name without Google. I also know we wouldn't be in a position to outsource rocket launches if Democrats hadn't been chocking off NASA's budget since the 60's. Whatever SpaceX manages to accomplish with taxpayer money over the next decade it will be because they are standing on the shoulders of giants whose achievements served humanity not some morally bankrupt flamethrower salesman who thinks he is IRL Ironman.
"we coup who we want" should have been the end of Musk in American politics and the source of my reflexive' hate of him. He should have been hauled in front of Congress. Who is "we"? Did he violate the Logan Act? Did he use his money and influence to overthrow a democratically elected government to get access to their lithium? Instead we are handing him the last great frontier and now apparently US budget oversite.