President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswami will lead a new federal agency, the Department of Government Efficiency. This makes internet memes a reality of government shrinkage.
Some liberals are outraged by the proposed institutions and appointments, apparently concerned that these relative outsiders lack the sensitivity and restraint necessary to maintain the status quo. I am doing it.
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said Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramaswamy said, “My administration will pave the way to dismantle government bureaucracy, reduce excessive regulation, reduce wasteful spending, and rebuild federal agencies essential to the 'Save America' movement. “We will open up,” he said in a statement.
The new agency, which President Trump has suggested could “potentially become a modern-day 'Manhattan Project,'” will provide outside government advisers “to drive major structural reforms,” and will work closely with the White House. It will partner with both the Office of Management and Budget. Creating an entrepreneurial approach to government like never before. ”
This initiative has a hard deadline of July 4, 2026.
President Trump believes that maximizing efficiency and minimizing bureaucracy would be “the perfect gift to America for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.”
“This will be a shock to the entire system and to many of the people involved in government waste,” Musk said in a statement shared with President Trump.
“Americans voted for fundamental government reform.”
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shown DOGE said it would publish all actions online for “maximum transparency” and suggested the new agency would regularly update a leaderboard of the “stupidest tax spending.”
Big names in the technology world
shared a clip From an interview with Tucker Carlson, he said, “Look at all the federal agencies and ask yourself, 'Do we really need 428 federal agencies?'” , there are many with overlapping areas of responsibility…I think we should be able to get away with 99 agencies. ”
Ramaswami
tweeted“Afuela!” — a term that more or less means “out,” and was used by Argentine President Javier Millay repeated in viral video When removing ministry names from the whiteboard.
Ramaswami is
shown On Tuesday, he announced he would recuse himself from consideration of his pending Ohio Senate nomination. noticed Additionally, “DOGE will soon begin crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud, and abuse. The American people voted for fundamental government reform, and they deserve to be a part of fixing it.” said.
There has been a long-standing desire among fiscal conservatives to rein in and shrink government, and this particular effort appears to have taken shape in reining in government policy.
70 minute conversation It took place between Trump and Musk on X Spaces in August.
“Inflation is caused by government overspending,” Musk said. “Would you agree that we need to review government spending and perhaps set up a government efficiency commission? We strive to do so.”
“The waste is unbelievable, and no one will negotiate the price,” Trump said.
“There should be a government efficiency commission that looks at these things and ensures that taxpayers' money, their hard-earned money, is spent in a good way,” Musk said. I would be happy to cooperate.” on such a mission. ”
Mr. Trump has elsewhere marveled at what Mr. Musk has done at Company X (canning) and seemed open to the idea.
More than 80% of employees Similarly, when righting the ship, wonder In Argentina, Millay used a “chainsaw” to tackle both the failed policies of his leftist predecessor and the bloated bureaucracy.
Shortly after their conversation, Mr. Musk
Posted An AI-generated image of himself at a podium was emblazoned with the proposed title “Ministry of Government Efficiency” and its acronym, which users recognized as alluding to another meme. Doge is a Shiba Inu dog immortalized in the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
President Trump clearly didn't want this dream to become a meme.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was one of the first in line to protest.
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belittle Warren, a two-time Bronze Star veteran and U.S. senator, platoon Number of staff — I wrote “The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership, where two people do one person's job. Yes, this seems really efficient.”
Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway III tried unsuccessfully to ruin President Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden last month. I participated MSNBC talking head Alex Wagner complained about the proposed new agency Tuesday night.
Wagner seemed to have missed the Biden-Harris administration's short-lived Disinformation Control Commission, saying, “There's no more Orwellian title.”
“What will be left for us at the end of this?”
Mr. Conway questioned whether DOGE was possible, telling Mr. Wagner, “First of all, from what I understand, DOGE would not be a government department. I think there are rules and statutes that apply. Talk about Federal Advisory Committee Act regulations.[ing] From an ethics perspective, these are the people who come to you for advice on how to run the government. ”
Jeffrey Toobin, a cable news analyst who revealed himself to colleagues on a Zoom call in October 2020. tried to reassure CNN travelers say the Administrative Procedure Act “requires jumping through a lot of hoops,” which could make it difficult for Musk and Ramaswamy to easily navigate Washington's kakistocracy. He said that means no.
“If you want to abolish government departments, if you want to change the structure of the Department of Education or the Department of the Interior, you have to take all these steps, but whether you like it or not, these two entrepreneurs have learned that. They’re going to have to go along with it, and they’re going to go crazy,” Toobin said. “Let's see how much they actually do.”
New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro expressed concern on CNN about what will remain after Musk and Ramaswamy's resignations.
“Look at his track record. What did he do on Twitter, now on X? He completely gutted that organization. What did he do in the federal bureaucracy? We don’t know yet if there are,” Garcia-Navarro told Cooper. “Fundamental change is good, but a lot of these people don't have the experience to know what to cut and what not to cut. They're not human.” [with] Government experience. So the question really arises, what is left at the end of this? ”
It is currently unclear which federal agencies will be given pink slips by the incoming Trump administration, but FBI and Pentagon officials are also reportedly currently updating their resumes.
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