Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday announced an action plan to paralyze the administrative state, increase efficiency and save taxpayers money.
Roadmap adorns President-elect Donald Trump's election campaign promise To “drain the swamp” or destroy the “deep state,” as he characterizes it.
At the heart of this plan is the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to remove power from the federal bureaucracy and return power to “the people we elect to run our government” (Musk and Ramaswamy). It will be executed through. outlined in wall street journal editorial.
Musk and Ramaswamy said DOGE will advise the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on reversing regulations, cutting back on administration and cutting costs. OMB is a critical branch of the executive branch that oversees the implementation of the president's vision, and President Trump has the power through the agency to cut funding for government agencies that seek to operate outside of his policy agenda. There is.
“The North Star for reform is the U.S. Constitution, and we will focus on two important Supreme Court decisions issued during President Biden's tenure,” Musk and Ramaswamy said. explained:
in State of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that government agencies cannot impose regulations that address major economic or policy issues unless Congress specifically authorizes them. in Roper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court said: chevron This doctrine held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies' interpretation of the law or their own rule-making authority. Taken together, these cases suggest that many current federal regulations exceed the authority granted by Congress under the statute.
DOGE will work with agency-embedded legal experts and with the assistance of advanced technology to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies. DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can immediately halt enforcement of these regulations through executive action and begin the review and rescission process. This would free individuals and businesses from illegal regulations that were never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy.
If the president repeals thousands of such regulations, critics will claim executive overreach. Actually it will be fix Executive overreach with thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative statutes that were never approved by Congress. The president has a duty to respect legislation, but he is not a bureaucrat deep within the federal agencies. It is unconstitutional to use executive orders to replace legislation by adding onerous new rules, but it is legal to use executive orders to repeal regulations that have wrongly circumvented Congress. Yes, and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court's recent order. And once these regulations are fully repealed, future presidents cannot simply flip a switch and reinstate them, but instead must ask Congress to do so.
The term “deep state” or “administrative state” refers to the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected executive bodies, including national security apparatuses. exercise The power to create and enforce your own rules and agenda. The administrative state uses its power to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government. create The so-called fourth branch of government, which is not formed by the constitution.
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Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
