It’s going to be drastic, our newly-appointed efficiency experts promise. Pressed for details on how they’re going to slash and burn through wasteful government spending, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have some great answers. They’re going to drastically reduce the population of government staffers while they’re at it. Democrats are huddled into corners, twitching.
Drastic reduction in waste
The plan may be drastic but it’s simple and they have all the authority they need to carry it out. Because the media can’t be trusted to quote them accurately, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy posted an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
In it, they spilled out all the progressive panicking details.
The entire strategy relies on “two recent Supreme Court rulings that limited the authority of federal regulatory agencies.” The brilliantly drastic idea is to “liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress.”
The efficiency experts aren’t going to handle the whole job all by themselves. They’re ready to “work with legal experts within government agencies.”
The “Department” of Governmental Efficiency heads intend to leverage “advanced technology” to identify regulations that President Trump could “immediately pause the enforcement of.” It’s not legally an official department but they can call it that.
While they’re in time-out limbo, the offensively sticky red tape will be subject to “review.” Followed soon by “rescission.” A measure that drastic is going to put a lot of federal employees on the streets.
Executive overreach
Anticipating a response from the left, the experts show they’re ready. “When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach.” They’re sort of right, only they have it backwards.
“In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress.” Things have to get drastic because the lint’s been piling up in every corner of the Capitol.
Trump may owe an explanation to Congress for what he does but “not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies.” Musk and Ramaswamy plan to “target more than $500 billion.” Congress approved spending the money but it’s “being used in ways that Congress never intended.”
PBS and NPR are not going to be happy. Firing Big Bird isn’t as drastic as it sounds. Taxpayers can save half a billion bucks by making liberals pick up the tab for their dedicated propaganda networks.
Another place taxpayers can save a ton of money is $300 million “given to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.” DOGE also plans to audit government contracts.
A great task for the AI entities is to “identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions.” That’s a lot more drastic than it sounds. Most government groups and divisions have thousands of staffers to do a job which could easily be handled by five.
