TOI Correspondent from Washington: DOGE days are coming to the United States under Donald Trump. The US President-elect on Tuesday named tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, both of immigrant origin, to head a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
Terming it a” Manhattan Project” of the times after the 1940s effort that yielded US the atomic bomb, Trump set a deadline of July 4, 2026 for achieving its DOGE’s goals, saying,” A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence. I am convinced they may thrive”!
” This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people”! Muss said in response, as the action irked Virginia and Maryland, where the federal government is the largest company and employs more than 300,000 people, in Washington DC. Nationwide, the federal government employs roughly 3 million people across different sections and ministries, racking up a huge$ 6.7 trillion page.
Nearly a third of the federal budget should be cut, according to Musk, who has called for$ 2 trillion in budget cuts, a goal that is widely accepted as unattainable. However, given that he systematically wiped out 75 % of Twitter’s workforce after purchasing it and continuing to run it, doubts of DOGE days are roiling in the capital as a result of the nearly 3 million employees being cut out of its nearly 3 million employees across various departments and agencies.
Given that the new department’s funding and personnel were approved by the White House and budgeted by the Congress, it is unclear how it will operate. While Trump and Republicans will have the upper hand in both the executive and legislative branches, lawmakers are extremely reluctant to cede control of pork barrel, which serves as a metaphor for the arrangement of government resources for regional projects aimed at appeasing constituents.
Trump stated that “providing advice and guidance,” an name DOGE, was created by Musk after a meme-based crypto he promoted, and that its recommendations must adhere to the laws and regulations of the kind highlighted in the English serial” Yes, Minister.”
In addition to highlighting Musk’s own business interests with the federal government, government and media auditors are also highlighting his businesses ‘ growth through state agreements and subsidies in response to numerous investigations and deviations from course. In effect, the agency of Musk and Ramaswamy, who is a co-founder of a bio-pharma and property management firms, will be recommending reduces of sections, agencies, and departments that are tasked with supervision over their businesses.
In particular, Musk has blasted SpaceX’s Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) oversight, which requires in-depth environmental assessments that the MAGA convert deems excessive due to its launch site and state park in Texas.
Ramaswamy, arguing that the country’s founding fathers did not envision a fourth branch of government, the administrative state, would be the solution, with the intention to fire 75 % of the federal workforce, abolish the Department of Education, and torch the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the process. In an earlier interview earlier this year, he said,” Removing the excessive government is going to be good for our business and for our national heart.”
However, Trump made an apparent jibe about conflict of interest, claiming that” Great Elon Musk, working with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy… will mate with the White House and Office of Management &, Budget to generate massive size structural reform and create an innovative approach to government that has never been seen before.”
” Importantly, we will pull out the huge waste and forgery which exists throughout our monthly$ 6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They may work together to rescue our Market, and create the U. S. Government responsible to” WE THE Folks,” the MAGA chairman and President-elect said in a statement.
