Speaking on Sunday, November 17 with Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo on her show Sunday Morning Futures, Trump ally and new co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency Vivek Ramaswamy said that he and Elon will delete entire federal agencies once they are in power.
Such is what Vivek said while explaining how he and Elon aim to lead and direct the new agency, explaining that they’re not just going to engage in incremental change that slowly pares away some of the worst examples of waste in the federal government, but will slash entire centers of waste wholesale.
Beginning that part of the interview, Mr. Ramaswamy noted that the conservative movement has been wanting to slash the size and scope of the federal government for decades, but only now has the power to do so. He began, “Over the last 40 years, even conservatives, we’ve talked a big game for 40 years about cutting the federal government, about reducing the scope of the federal government.”
Continuing, he explained that the GOP politicians have failed abysmally in actually slashing the government, but that he and Elon are businessmen rather than politicians, and so might actually succeed. He said, “Politicians haven’t been able to do it. And so Elon and I, we’re not politicians. We’re businessmen. We’re coming at it from the outside. Sometimes if you go inside, you become native to the system.”
That’s when the idea that entire departements and agencies in the executive governmental and regulatory apparatus might be done away with by the Department of Government Efficiency. Broaching th esubject, Bartiromo asked, “Are you going to be closing down departments?” Vivek replied, “We expect mass reductions.”
Continuing, he got to the line about whole agencies being slashed, noting, “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts of all federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above.” Watch Vivek here:
President-Elect Trump, announcing DOGE, said, “I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the “Save America” Movement. “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” stated Mr. Musk.”
He added, “It will become, potentially, “The Manhattan Project” of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of “DOGE” for a very long time. To drive this kind of drastic change, the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”
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