11/21/2024

Musk, Ramaswamy Vow ‘Mass Head-count Reductions’ in U.S. Government

The new DOGE panel leaders have promised extensive cuts

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vowed “mass headcount reductions” to the federal government in an opinion piece Wednesday that sketched out their vision for President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) in the greatest detail so far.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy laid out their plans to slash federal regulations, cut government spending and significantly reduce the number of federal employees. Trump tapped the two with running the DOGE initiative last week, but basic questions about the effort — including its goals, operations and authorities — have primarily remained a source of speculation.

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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