Make America Great Again?
The two knuckleheads , who have NO Federal work experence, and are actually NOT politically astute are selling a goal that will be nearly impossible and WILL cause other Republican lawmakers a LOT of Worry and Pain….It’s the Government NOT Twitter….
And it will make sure to make a LOT Trump voters VERY sorry they got stupid enough to have these two go after their jobs ….
Of course the Republicans ALSO want to cut benefits for those they make unemployed…
While their essay left much unclear, tech entrepreneur Musk and Ramaswamy — a former 2024 GOP presidential rival of Trump’s — began to articulate the legal and procedural steps by which they plan to transform federal operations….
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Musk and Ramaswamy argued that recent cases decided by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court will enable major reductions in federal regulations. After Trump “nullifies thousands of such regulations,” DOGE will then work with “embedded appointees” across federal agencies to “identify the minimum number of employees” required for an agency to perform its essential functions. This line appeared to echo Musk’s broader business philosophy and past practices; Musk oversaw the reduction of roughly 80 percent of the staff of Twitter, the social media platform he later renamed X, after he bought it….
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Musk and Ramaswamy did not specify the number of federal employees they envision being cut under their effort. They wrote that “existing laws” can give federal employees “incentives for early retirement” and voluntary severance payments to “facilitate a graceful exit.”
These proposals could affect not just scores of federal operations but also the Washington area, which is home to hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
To reduce federal spending, Musk and Ramaswamy also proposed eliminating programs that Congress funds but where specific spending authorization has lapsed, an idea that would ax critical measures including veterans’ health care, initiatives at the State and Justice departments and NASA, and multiple major antipoverty programs.
That idea, some budget experts said, demonstrates the pair’s misunderstanding of how the government works. Funding authorizations are often pro forma exercises; approving funding without official reauthorizations is one way Congress has found to operate more efficiently.
Critics have pointed out that balancing the federal budget would require either much higher taxes or cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which Trump has vowed to protect. Trump campaigned in 2024 on more than $7 trillion in new tax cuts, and his first administration added roughly $8 trillion to the national debt.
Some experts have also noted that reducing the federal workforce would not meaningfully alter the budget gap…
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The federal government spends about $305 billion per year on salary and benefits for federal employees, excluding military personnel, which amounts to roughly 4 percent of the more than $6 trillion federal budget, said Brian Riedl, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank, citing White House statistics.
If Musk and Ramaswamy eliminated 25 percent of all federal employees, Riedl added, federal spending would be reduced by roughly 1 percent. Even that estimate is probably high, because the government would have to turn to contractors for at least some of the functions fulfilled by the laid off workers, Riedl said…..
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House/Senate Democrats HAVE TO BE licking their chops on the number spots they will be able to flip in the 2026 midterm elections as pissed off voters express their displeasure with all this Trump ‘wilding out’ stuff….
Also?
Ill advised cuts could affect services to Americanms across the country…..
Forceing the Federal Government to HIRE someone to do the exact same work people where fired from doing, with puasesof HOW Long?
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called the inaugural Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a “PR campaign,” in a Monday interview, but said he respects the efforts by its appointed leaders, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to reform the federal government.
“Look, I have nothing but respect for what these gentlemen are trying to do,” Mulvaney said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” referring to Musk and Ramaswamy.….
The Hill…