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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government
埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 和维韦克·拉马斯瓦米 (Vivek Ramaswamy):改革政府的 DOGE 计划

Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab.
根据最高法院的指导,我们将扭转长达数十年的行政权力攫取。

By
Elon Musk
and
Vivek Ramaswamy

作者:Elon Musk 和 Vivek Ramaswamy
ET
David Gothard
Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.
我们的国家建立在这样一个基本理念之上,即我们选出的人民管理政府。这不是美国今天的运作方式。大多数法律法令不是国会颁布的法律,而是由非民选官僚颁布的“规章制度”——每年有数以万计的官僚。大多数政府执法决定和可自由支配的支出不是由民选总统甚至他的政治任命者做出的,而是由政府机构内数百万未经选举、未经任命的公务员做出的,他们认为由于公务员保护,自己不会被解雇。
This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem. On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it.
这是反民主的,与开国元勋的愿景背道而驰。它给纳税人带来了巨大的直接和间接成本。值得庆幸的是,我们有一个历史性的机会来解决这个问题。11月5日,选民果断地选举了唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump),他被赋予了全面变革的使命,他们应该得到它。
President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.
特朗普总统要求我们两人领导一个新成立的政府效率部 (DOGE),以缩小联邦政府的规模。根深蒂固且不断增长的官僚机构对我们的共和国构成了生存威胁,政客们已经教唆它太久了。这就是我们以不同的方式做事的原因。我们是企业家,不是政客。我们将作为外部志愿者服务,而不是联邦官员或雇员。与政府委员会或咨询委员会不同,我们不会只是撰写报告或剪彩。我们将削减成本。
We are assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America. This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings. We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws. Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution, with a focus on two critical Supreme Court rulings issued during President Biden’s tenure.
我们正在协助特朗普过渡团队寻找并雇用一支由小政府斗士组成的精干团队,其中包括美国一些最敏锐的技术和法律人才。该团队将在新政府中与白宫管理和预算办公室密切合作。我们两个人将在每一步都建议 DOGE 追求三大改革:监管撤销、行政减少和成本节约。我们将特别注重通过基于现有立法的行政行动来推动变革,而不是通过新的法律。我们改革的北极星将是美国宪法,重点是拜登总统任期内最高法院发布的两项关键裁决。
In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law.
西弗吉尼亚州诉环境保护署案(2022 年)中,大法官们认为,除非国会特别授权,否则各机构不能制定处理重大经济或政策问题的法规。在 Loper Bright 诉 Raimondo 案 (2024) 中,法院推翻了 Chevron 原则,并认为联邦法院不应再服从联邦机构对法律的解释或他们自己的规则制定机构。这些案例共同表明,现行的大量联邦法规超出了国会依法授予的权力。
DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies. DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission. This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy.
DOGE 将与政府机构中的法律专家合作,在先进技术的帮助下,将这些裁决应用于这些机构颁布的联邦法规。DOGE 将向特朗普总统提交这份法规清单,特朗普总统可以通过行政行动立即暂停这些法规的执行并启动审查和撤销程序。这将使个人和企业摆脱国会从未通过的非法法规,并刺激美国经济。
When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies. The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so.
当总统废除数以千计的此类法规时,批评者会指责行政越权。事实上,它将纠正行政法规颁布的数千项从未得到国会授权的法规的行政越权行为。总统在立法方面应尊重国会,而不是尊重联邦机构内部的官僚。使用行政命令通过增加繁琐的新规则来取代立法是一种对宪法的侮辱,但使用行政命令来撤销错误绕过国会的法规是合法的,也是遵守最高法院最近授权所必需的。在这些法规被完全废除之后,未来的总统不能简单地拨动开关并恢复它们,而是必须要求国会这样做。
A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy. DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions. The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited. Employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector. The president can use existing laws to give them incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.
联邦法规的大幅减少为整个联邦官僚机构的大规模裁员提供了合理的工业逻辑。DOGE 打算与机构中的嵌入式任命人员合作,以确定机构履行其宪法允许和法定职责所需的最低员工人数。要裁员的联邦雇员人数至少应与被废除的联邦法规的数量成正比:不仅需要执行更少法规的雇员更少,而且一旦其权力范围得到适当限制,该机构制定的法规也会减少。职位被取消的员工应该得到尊重,DOGE 的目标是帮助支持他们过渡到私营部门。总统可以利用现有法律激励他们提前退休,并自愿支付遣散费,以促进他们体面地退出。
Conventional wisdom holds that statutory civil-service protections stop the president or even his political appointees from firing federal workers. The purpose of these protections is to protect employees from political retaliation. But the statute allows for “reductions in force” that don’t target specific employees. The statute further empowers the president to “prescribe rules governing the competitive service.” That power is broad. Previous presidents have used it to amend the civil service rules by executive order, and the Supreme Court has held—in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that they weren’t constrained by the Administrative Procedures Act when they did so. With this authority, Mr. Trump can implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area. Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.
传统观点认为,法定的公务员保护可以阻止总统甚至他的政治任命者解雇联邦工作人员。这些保护措施的目的是保护员工免受政治报复。但该法规允许不针对特定雇员的“裁员”。该法规进一步授权总统“制定管理竞争性服务的规则”。这种力量是广泛的。前几任总统都曾利用它通过行政命令修改公务员规则,最高法院在富兰克林诉马萨诸塞州案(1992 年)和柯林斯诉耶伦案(2021 年)中认为,他们在这样做时不受《行政程序法》的约束。有了这项权力,特朗普可以实施任何数量的“管理竞争性服务的规则”,以减少行政过度扩张,从大规模解雇到将联邦机构迁出华盛顿地区。要求联邦雇员每周来办公室五天将导致一波自愿解雇浪潮,我们对此表示欢迎:如果联邦雇员不想出现,美国纳税人就不应该为他们支付 Covid 时代待在家里的特权。
Finally, we are focused on delivering cost savings for taxpayers. Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone. They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question. But even without relying on that view, DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.
最后,我们专注于为纳税人节省成本。怀疑论者质疑 DOGE 仅通过行政行动就能驯服多少联邦支出。他们指出,1974年的《扣押控制法》(Impoundment Control Act)阻止总统停止国会授权的支出。特朗普先生此前曾表示该法规违宪,我们相信现任最高法院可能会在这个问题上站在他一边。但即使不依赖这种观点,DOGE 也将帮助结束联邦超支,通过瞄准国会未经授权或以国会从未打算的方式使用的 5000 多亿美元的年度联邦支出,从每年向公共广播公司提供 5.35 亿美元,向国际组织提供 15 亿美元赠款,到向计划生育联合会等进步团体提供近 3 亿美元。
The federal government’s procurement process is also badly broken. Many federal contracts have gone unexamined for years. Large-scale audits conducted during a temporary suspension of payments would yield significant savings. The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent. Critics claim that we can’t meaningfully close the federal deficit without taking aim at entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which require Congress to shrink. But this deflects attention from the sheer magnitude of waste, fraud and abuse that nearly all taxpayers wish to end—and that DOGE aims to address by identifying pinpoint executive actions that would result in immediate savings for taxpayers.
联邦政府的采购程序也严重中断。许多联邦合同多年来一直没有得到审查。在暂时暂停付款期间进行大规模审计将产生显着的节省。五角大楼最近连续第七次未通过审计,这表明该机构的领导层对其超过 8000 亿美元的年度预算的支出知之甚少。批评者声称,如果不瞄准需要国会缩减规模的医疗保险和医疗补助等福利计划,我们就无法有意义地缩小联邦赤字。但这转移了人们对几乎所有纳税人都希望结束的大量浪费、欺诈和滥用行为的注意力,而 DOGE 旨在通过确定能够立即为纳税人节省成本的精确行政行动来解决这一问题。
With a decisive electoral mandate and a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, DOGE has a historic opportunity for structural reductions in the federal government. We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington. We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action. Our top goal for DOGE is to eliminate the need for its existence by July 4, 2026—the expiration date we have set for our project. There is no better birthday gift to our nation on its 250th anniversary than to deliver a federal government that would make our Founders proud.
凭借决定性的选举授权和最高法院 6-3 的保守派多数,DOGE 拥有对联邦政府进行结构性裁减的历史性机会。我们已经准备好迎接来自华盛顿根深蒂固的利益集团的冲击。我们期待胜利。现在是采取果断行动的时候了。我们对 DOGE 的首要目标是在 2026 年 7 月 4 日之前消除对它存在的需求——这是我们为项目设定的到期日期。在建国 250 周年之际,没有比交付一个让我们的开国元勋感到自豪的联邦政府更好的生日礼物了。
Mr. Musk is CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. Mr. Ramaswamy, a businessman, is author, most recently, of “Truths: The Future of America First” and was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. President-elect Trump has named them co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency.
马斯克先生是 SpaceX 和特斯拉的首席执行官。拉马斯瓦米先生是一名商人,最近出版了《真相:美国优先的未来》(Truths: The Future of America First),并且是 2024 年共和党总统提名的候选人。当选总统特朗普已任命他们为政府效率部(Department of Government Efficiency)的联合负责人。
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Appeared in the November 21, 2024, print edition as 'The DOGE Plan to Reform Government'.
出现在 2024 年 11 月 21 日的印刷版中,标题为“改革政府的 DOGE 计划”。

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  • The barnyard doesn't get shoveled by itself. Ya gotta start somewhere and these two poweful disruptors are the perfect pair to get the ball rolling. Perhaps Gates and Buffett from the other side of the aisle would like to volunteer.
    谷仓不会自己铲。你必须从某个地方开始,而这两个强大的颠覆者是让球滚动的完美搭档。也许过道另一边的盖茨和巴菲特也想做志愿者。
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    • Elon as a cost cutter? Hmm, Tesla was founded just under 23 years ago. Assuming Elon worked 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year for those 23 years, his hourly pay works out to be 1.83 Million dollars / hour. Well played Elon!
      Elon 作为成本削减者?嗯,特斯拉成立于不到 23 年前。假设 Elon 在这 23 年中一年 24 天、每天 365 小时工作,他的时薪为 183 万美元/小时。Elon 玩得好!
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      • Let's get this nonsense over with. Two brilliant men but with little competence in federal funding and whose ideas are most influenced more by conspiracy than knowledge. Almost all the inefficiency is induced by the congress. We already know that high dollar defense inefficiency and waste comes from CRAs and unwillingness for procurement multi-year funding. Almost all the waste and inefficiency in welfare programs is generated by the states. Mississippi made poor unassuming Bret Farve the new face of welfare fraud. Every appropriation that funds the largest to the smallest federal organizations comes with specific instructions or previously pasted laws that restrict how the funding can be spent and what it can be spent on. The federal workforce has not ballooned in size over decades. They'll discover that agencies do not operate outside the legal parameters set by congress except in the imagination of MAGA conservatives. They will also discover that social security does not contribute to the deficit. Once the reality sets in, to get the trillion they are looking for will required substantive changes to congressional behavior and workload along with the very sound basis for the constitutionality of that 1974 law they are pinning their hopes on.
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        • The real test for Elon Musk will be whether or not he stops accepting payments from the Federal Government in respect of "credits" that his competitors (Ford, Chevie, et al) purchase from Tesla because they have failed to sell the correct amount of EV's.
           
          Musk sells as many Tesla's as the market will absorb. Why should the Treasury pay him for his competitor's failures?
           
          Tesla's 10Q noted that the sales of these 'Credits" to his competitors was a significant portion of Tesla's profit.
           
          If the aim is to punish the Auto Makers who don't sell enough EV's wouldn't it make more sense to send the "credits" make to the treasury.
           
          If Musk fails at this simple task then we will know that he is simply an opportunist.
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          • I understand there have been thoughts to increase the Medicare eligibility age to 67 and the Social Security full retirement age to 70.
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            • I applaud the intent of DOGE. My concern is the goals are huge, given the Federal Government's immense size, scope and bureaucracy. How can more people become engaged to support?
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              • It is interesting and gratifying that Musk/Ramaswamy called out the wasteful federal funding for NPR in their commentary. I can see the cogs of panic already turning in the whole public radio far-left-leaning, woke mindset. I mention this because for many years I not only appreciated the service NPR provided but also supported it with my hard-earned dollars. NPR news has historically had a liberal bent, and if it were only that, I may still be supporting them. However, in the last ten years or so, it has become increasingly clear that the management at NPR is not only biased, but has an increasing intolerance for anything resembling traditional, conservative values, along with any who would dare to represent those values. For some time, I gritted my teeth and listened to their newscasts anyway, even though they inevitably made me angry with their narrow-minded intolerance. Eventually it was just not worth bothering with it, so I quit listening to NPR entirely around five or six years ago. I quit supporting them many years before that. NPR serves only a small woke minority of the American public, and thus, does not deserve public support. Kudos to Musk and Ramaswamy for calling them out!
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                • Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramaswamy write:
                   
                  -“They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question.”-
                   
                  I got two points.
                   
                  First, on the law question, the President unilaterally ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress has the same effect as a line item veto. The Supreme Court has ruled line item vetos are unconstitutional.
                   
                  Second, as a political matter, lobbyists and donors give big campaign contributions to both Democrat and Republican incumbents to make sure their bought and paid for special interest expenditures will turn into actual government cash outlays used for their intended purposes. Musk and Ramaswamy are no match this entrenched politician-swamp partnership.
                   
                  Using a concept like DOGE to shrink the government will fail. To be successful, Trump must coerce Congress to cut both entitlements and discretionary expenditures. In his first term, the President-Elect never demonstrated that type of leadership.
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                  • This is a serious, purposeful, goal oriented endeavor, by very smart people, and should worry Democrats, with their entrenched bureaucracy, voting Democrat, , electioneering for Democrats, donating to Democrats, and targeting conservatives and Republicans with their regulations, at Democrats behest. If they can accomplish and realize their goals, this project, will have shifted the balance of power, back to the people, the citizenry, for generations.
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                    • Red states receive more federal aid per capita compared to blue states, so they would be hurt more. States like Kentucky, Mississippi, and West Virginia, which are traditionally red, receive significant federal funding relative to their state budgets.
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                    • DOGE - pronounced “doggy”
                       
                      Sit DOGE. Rollover DOGE. Fetch DOGE. Heel DOGE.
                       
                      Play dead DOGE.
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                      • I suspect the July 2026 report will provide a road map highlighting government waste with suggestions for cutting various Washington departments and staff. The nuts and bolts of how they clean this up is not clear to me. Doing this trough executive orders provides a temporary fix a future President can undo.
                         
                        On the other hand calling out government waste and mismanagement in detail and presenting it to the American people, including the actions required to clean it all up, perhaps will shame Congress into doing something more permanent. Trump has turned the dogs loose so I'll stay tuned......
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                        • I doubt Mr. Musk or Mr. Ramaswamy wrote this.
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                          • I doubt this was published without their approval / agreement.
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                          • They are "volunteering".
                             
                            Let's see how much Musk's wealth rises while he is in the inside lane of government. Let's see how the increasing efficiency of government spills out to buttress his bottom line.
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                            • Awesome!
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                              • "Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution"--neither of you are elected, don't ever forget that.
                                 
                                "In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so." So, the checks and balances of Congress and the Courts on Executive power works--explain again why two unelected big business outsiders are needed?
                                 
                                "DOGE", the 'Department of Government Efficiency', is not even proposed to be a Department of our actual Constitutional Federal Government. So, why the mis-characterization? Oh, the crypto-currency thing, right.
                                 
                                Vivek actually verbalized cutting each U.S. government employee whose SSN starts with an odd number. Elon, put him in charge of SpaceX and have him implement that finely-tuned highly intellectual policy....
                                 
                                Two heads to the snake that will devour the tail--that will be a funny fight to watch play out!
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                                • Just too funny. Whenever an idea comes from a conservative group, the left goes bonkers. What's wrong with cutting these significantly over bloated agencies by 33%. If it takes starting with your SS beginning with an odd number, so be it. Obviously you don't see what they were trying to project but if in your mind, that's what it takes, well then the goal would be accomplished.
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                                  • Far right conservatives are such victims! Lol
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                                    • Wow, i”m going to cry. LOL
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                                • So ironic that the Department of Government Efficiency has TWO heads!
                                   
                                  The US government isn't Twitter. Slashing jobs left and right will not improve anything.
                                   
                                  And, about regulations - those regulations are in place to keep people like Trump, Musk, Ramaswamy, and the rest of his crowd from ruining the environment and running roughshod over the rest of us. they are not your friends.
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                                  • As Bobby Zimmerman famously sang years ago, “The times, they are a changing’…”
                                    Go Elon and Vivek!!!
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                                    • Few, if any, company has seen such rapid decline in revenue in US history as Twitter. 50% loss in less than a year. That was a failure.
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                                      • Slashing jobs will not improve anything, please tell us why?
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                                        • Correct. Before the DOGE job slashing begins, these two volunteer heads of a made up volunteer cabinet should bring every job and its description before Congress (the representatives of 'we the people') including the number of years each person holding the job has been employed, and their expertise. In addition, each Cabinet secretary should appear with Musk and Ramaswamy as they (not an assistant) present each employee's information and proposed cost cut as properly entered into the Congressional Record. Congress should sit through the above before they vote on the proposed savings, as it is their responsibility - not the two volunteer heads.
                                           
                                          *Of note: "On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it."
                                           
                                          As the public data states, Trump won by 1.5% which is a lower % than the three previous presidents - hardly a mandate.
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                                          • That's not how this works.
                                             
                                            YOU tell ME how slashing jobs and having fewer people do more increases efficiency.
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                                        • HALLELUJAH!!!!!
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                                          • Bravo Elon and Vivek!
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                                            • Excited about the concept but worried about the execution. These entities are entrenched, very powerful and very well protected and have massive financial interests in continuing to loot the treasury. Stopping that will bring a resistance of biblical proportions. Trump, despite his flaws, perhaps because of them, is the right person for this in that he is unburdened by what has been...wait, did I just say that? Trump does not care who he angers in his quest to do what he believes is necessary and right for America. . A key factor in this effort is effective and widespread, communication that is fact based and easy to verify. Messaging that systematically calls out , by name, those who fight against these crucial reforms and exposes their stake in the outcomes must be a part of the plan. Succinct, easy to understand and factually correct narratives that make it clear what is behind the resistance, is essential for this to get traction with voters. Is it possible to eliminate waste, graft, fraud and corruption? We are going to find out.
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                                              • The messaging of which you speak should not only identify the recipients of federal spending, it should also identify the political contributions made by such recipients and the politicians who are on the receiving end of those contributions. Follow the money, close the circle, full transparency.
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                                                • Exactly. Honest, Integrity and character to be pursued with zero comprise. Weed out the dishonest and dishonorable. It would be refreshing to see our Country run by those who actually love our Country and our Countrymen. Bring Truth to the forefront and bury those who bring darkness to our shores and from within. America.
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                                                  • Lovely concept that is idealism in it's finest. But who is defining the correct path?
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                                                • America!
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                                                  • Hear the applause.
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                                                    • I've noticed the WSJ is much more left leaning over the past couple of decades. Is Financial Times, the same?
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                                                      • When a person moves to the right, everything else looks more leftish.
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                                                        • FT is worse.
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                                                        • “In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so.”
                                                           
                                                          Anyone who has trimmed back plants like a hedge knows that trimming the plant stimulates growth. While Republicans are in the majority they can do future Congresses a favor by enacting a statute that my State already uses to keep executive agencies in their proper lane:
                                                           
                                                          Require all administrative regulations to be approved by Congress before the regulation becomes effective.
                                                           
                                                          Approval could be on a simple majority vote of both Houses of Congress. Presumably the President would not veto regulations promulgated by his/her own administration, particularly if the approval process was initiated by the White House.
                                                           
                                                          This process would give actual legitimacy to administrative regulations through involvement of the nation’s elected representatives. It would also completely eliminate arbitrary, unauthorized legislation by unelected bureaucrats.
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                                                          • Congress can barely do their own job without having to approve thousands of regulations.
                                                             
                                                            Congress makes the laws, and the agencies/departments make enabling regulations. Political appointees in the departments set the policies and approve the regulations.
                                                             
                                                            We lost so much when we stopped teaching civics in school.
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                                                          • The backbone of this endeavor are the following: “In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine…”
                                                            Thank Trump for his SCOTUS appointments and cocaine Mitch for stopping Garland.
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                                                            • This should be music to our collective ears. And hearts and souls.
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                                                              • Communism is taking over our American Healthcare. Attack, label and remove the good doctors. Only keep the sheep that follow. Everything suffers from quality to morale. As Dana White said regarding Politics, "This is Gross."
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                                                                • So excited to see what these guys can do. Very glad they will be cutting funding for NPR. It's about time. Would like to see them move many of these functions OUT of DC and back to the States.
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                                                                  • I am all for cutting costs and shrinking the size and scope of government. I am a Reagan conservative with a strong Libertarian lean as was Reagan and don't think it's necessary to grow the cost, size and scope of government even at the state level by invading the private lives and personal decisions that women, and their families make with their physicians and OBGYN's. In other words, government doesn't need to be in our bedrooms and OBGYN offices. Women are quite capable of making their own personal and medical decisions with the assistance of their OBGYN's. As Reagan's famous most terrifying words went, " I am from the government, and I am here to help."
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                                                                    • Abortion is a homicide. Homicide is the killing by a human being of another human being. You approve of the expansion of lawful homicide to include the killing of other persons who are inconvenient?
                                                                       
                                                                      Abortion is frequently not a medical decision based upon the medical need of the mother, but is a decision made for personal convenience. I don’t favor turning medical personnel into hit men and women.
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                                                                      • Rights apply ONLY to individuals. By definition, a fetus isn’t an individual, but a nine-month germinating parasite growing inside of an individual with complete sovereignty over every aspect of their own body. Therefore, abortion may be unfortunate, but it isn’t murder.
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                                                                        • Pregnancy is a medical condition covered under the Federal HIPAA medical privacy act of 1996. Abortion is a medical procedure, to abort a non-vital twin in order that the other twin survives, to abort for sepsis conditions that will kill both the mother and fetus, to abort an ectopic pregnancy where the egg implants outside of the fallopian tube and not the uterus, to abort a non-vital fetus that can and do die at any time during the entire 9 months, to abort a non-viable fetus that has no chance of surviving outside of the womb, to abort for heart and lung disease, cancer, pre-existing conditions such as cystic fibrosis. It is now considered dangerous to be pregnant in a red state as OBGYN's have made a mass exit to blue states as they were being threatened with criminal charges and loss of medical license for treating their patients. Medical students are now refusing to specialize in women's health putting all women at risk from dying of cervical cancer, uterine, ovarian and breast cancers. Young women are bleeding out in the parking lots of emergency rooms during a miscarriage as they are being refused treatment. It's been all over the actual news networks of CBS, ABC and NBC, by fact checked News Anchors. You won't get this information from the entertainment media of cable news channels, political talk radio, the shock jocks and deep state conspiracy sites on the internet. Political commentators are nothing more than entertainers.
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                                                                          • How many babies that you believe women should be forced to carry to term are you planning to adopt or finance?
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                                                                        • Strip aways the laws to allow doctors to own hospitals again. Enable surgeons to perform cardiac and neurological surgeries in small 10 bed hospitals for profit.
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                                                                          • Healthcare is the trickiest of all services in a Republic that regularly outsources jobs to domestic contractors or worse, to overseas employee/contractors. No wonder that American's privacies and IDs are being violated more than ever as health records have become digitized. Further, if healthcare professionals are commoditized and the Hippocratic Oath is modified away from 'do no harm', then how does 'health' keep 'care' together? Health needs to be affordable but not at the expense of the good doctors and good to the best practices for those good doctors' patients. Doctors that are willing to commoditize themselves perhaps should not be American doctors? Perhaps medical schools who upend the Hippocratic Oath should not receive support from US tax payers? But at the end of day, healthcare does need to be available to American citizens that is affordable. Unfortunately, Obamacare has reduced the Christian based and supported hospitals to rubble. This needs to change immediately starting with the IRS and 501cs..... volunteerism needs to be popular again, but not dictated by politicians, but only allowed by the tax code. Government indifferent to "compassionate conservatism" versus government that is adverse toward Christian or faith based volunteerism.
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                                                                            • Best Practices are good but limit growth. Did DeBakey stick to "best practices."
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                                                                          • Not sure if being rich makes you fit to understand all the check and balances of government. We will see. The only one true question to ask before reingeneering government is: What is America and how can we make a stronger state with some sort of common bound. The flag and the military alone are not enough.
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                                                                            • CLEAN HOUSE!
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                                                                              • Protecting America's peoples treasures (equity risk management) from the bureaucratic contagion in order to better serve the people by the people will give America a real chance to reduce government spending in our republic. A successful restructuring and realignment of congresses role on spending will result in healthy capital markets so that all Americans can safely leverage and make long term investments without undo risk from government malfeasance. Politicians, their lobbyist or their preferred economist really should not be in the "investment" of your tax dollars business; they should be in the provision for governance business only. Hopefully, DOGE will set a target federal government spend rate to annual domestic GDP and execute a plan to reach and keep such goals indefinitely. Gods speed Elan and Vivek; Americans will coalesce behind the plan if they understand the plan. This means, do not let the leering press or some think tank hi-jack your plan or the messaging of the "plan". The last point to make is, how does your plan potentially hurt in the event there is a "real" existential threat to republicanism and capitalism? PS - thank you for seeing the solution to deficit spending that doesn't involve taxes. I am so glad I didn't pursue the position at the GAO coming out of college; but after you successfully execute the plan, perhaps young bright people will in the future.
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                                                                                • May God bless you and your work!
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                                                                                  • Their top goal is elimination of the need for their program in 2026. We can only hope That will happen
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                                                                                    • This is going to be awesome.,
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                                                                                      • The article concludes w the authors stating words to the goal of a gift to OUR nation. Musk is an erstaz citizen of my nation . He is a global puppeteer pullingStarLink and NASA strings not to mention the people
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                                                                                        • Sorry much that Harris lost?
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                                                                                          • Musk is a US citizen.
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                                                                                          • Hoping this works without too many disastrous outcomes from overreach.
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                                                                                            • Most of federal government is run through contractors like Musk.
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                                                                                              • There are over 2 million civilian employees.
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                                                                                              • 2024 Election is the most important historical election for the USA. President Trump will become the most important President since George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
                                                                                                Trump will be heavily applauded for his skills in attracting Musk, the richest in the world and most qualified and skilled. Musk is an inventor and innovator. The world is simply fascinated to see Musk to work with Trump during the campaign and the transition. I keep wondering how Musk could afford to spend so much time when he is head of so many of his business.
                                                                                                Ramaswamy is equally highly qualified and within a short time he has succeeded in developing good relations with Musk and Trump.
                                                                                                I think Trump has already made AMERICA GREAT by eliciting the expertise of Musk and Ramaswamy to cut the cost of running the government. We, American people should thank President elect Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy . I am confident and sure they will succeed and save two trillion dollars of tax payors money.
                                                                                                GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA and I cannot wait for the inauguration of President-elect Trump and his Executive Orders on his first day in the White House.
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                                                                                                  • What reality do you live in?
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                                                                                                    • First term was not disastrous. Before COVID , all elements of America were improved from Obama.
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                      Chaos was present, but eggs need to be scrambled. And the democrats own much of its with their”resistance “, which they are once again attempting to implement.
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                                                                                                  • "We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees." - Thus accountability can go to the netherworld! We can do whatever we want to and get away with it!! Have fun America!
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                                                                                                    • They are like the 2 million (or whatever) consultants in the government. Just not getting paid directly. But will probably line their pockets through "efficiency" that pushes government savings into profits for their businesses.
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                                                                                                      • For the people, by the people. It doesn't say in the Constitution for the people, by the scientist, or the politician, or the community organizer. No it clearly states by the people and the people are speaking now as your elected representative in the Republic for which it stands. Checks and balances are hardly reflected in an unchecked and unelected bureaucracy. Your position indicates you disagree with the US Constitution?
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                                                                                                      • would instead have to ask Congress to do so
                                                                                                        Well, that is assuming Congress is up to the task. I am afraid it is not, after years of doing many things unrelated to making laws. It has been kicking the can down the road to both Executive and Judicial branches.
                                                                                                        Most members in the Congress are only interested in getting re-elected.
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                                                                                                        • One step at a time; it will take time to unwind and remove the meta-stasized government officials that have taken decades to assemble. No different than turning the Titanic to avoid the 'iceberg' that will sink the ship.
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                                                                                                        • And the Founders puked.
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                                                                                                          • I didn't realize Bernie or his Excellency at the UN was a signor of the Declaration of Independence?
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                                                                                                            • The founders, having gotten rid of the British, intended limited government.
                                                                                                              As the article mentions, we don't have that any more.
                                                                                                              These guys under the direction of the president will try to return limited government to America.
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                                                                                                            • Addressing bureaucracy bloat is a certainly welcome first step, but the biggest issue by far is our poor health and associated entitlements that have been deemed untouchable by recent administrations left and right. The ever-declining birthrate and mushrooming national debt are existential threats that must be addressed for our country to be sustainable.
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                                                                                                              • Funny. I just made a similar comment on another article. I'm a federal employee and a conservative-leaning libertarian, but I can also do math. You've got to triage problems, and like you said we have bigger problems than what DOGE is purporting to solve. I also think Musk is wrong in this article about SCOTUS. If anything, they've been making Congress do their job more. And that means the president will have less choice in executing appropriated funds not more. The fundamental principle of separation of powers is that the Legislative Branch (Congress) passes laws and the budget and the Executive Branch ... wait for it ... executes those laws and budget. The Executive branch doesn't get a choice in my opinion if we truly believe in the separation of powers as outlined in the Constitution.
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                                                                                                              • Wow. Just WOW! I never thought I would live to see this!
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                                                                                                                • Two suggestions for consideration:
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                  The constitution only requires four departments - I assume that you will move those tasks to the States that can be performed by the States (even if funded by the US Gov't), then the tasks that can be sold to private interests (Reagan with the Dept of Commerce thus forming Bloomberg TV), the remaining units can be combined with colleges located in the red states that are highly regarded, ie DOE to Texas Tech, Agriculture to Kansas State , Interior to Colorado State and the like such that students in the right degree programs can be employed in a work study basis..
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                  Second idea to develop the resulting federal work force to be able to determine and implement the proper transition period from the current carbon base energy system to a hydrogen-based system using sea water and electricity from nuclear power on a cost-effective basis. The driving force will be the production of an estimated three times the current electricity production - the current usage, the projected usage for AI and the projected usage for electrically powered cars between now and 2050. Remember that only petroleum can produce plastics and plastics are essential for high end electrical components. The greatest limiting factor to producing petroleum is access to land that has petroleum production potential. The current suppliers of petroleum to the USA market only have access to lands within USA control.
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                                                                                                                  • One of the biggest problems with all government is it being top-heavy. There are too many managers and not enough worker-bees. There is also a lack of top level technology use to provide more constituent self-service.
                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                    After cutting programs and agencies as needed, the next step should be to reorganize to a flatter organization thus firing the unnecessary managers in agencies and making the remaining managers handle a larger workforce... but with a model of self-managed teams.
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                                                                                                                    • The effort is not just to cut government spending on frivolous junk programs, it is also to simplify the federal register to take its boot off the neck of small business, enterprise and entrepreneurialism.
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                                                                                                                      • Good luck. The pigs are going to squeal mightily when the feed trough is taken away. Keep your resolve and ignore them, and there will be a chance of success.
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                                                                                                                        • Sad you think the 70% of poor Americans are pigs 🐖 and I think the top 2% of wealthy Americans are pigs 🐷….
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                                                                                                                        • I hope they are hugely successful in this effort. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The "waste, fraud, and abuse" in and of itself could be a huge number that we all want to see fixed. As it pertains to departments of the federal government, kick a lot of these tasks back to the states where they belong, per the 10th amendment. Good luck to both of you!
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                                                                                                                          • All money that is spent on activities not in the Constitution (girl-centered climate training in Brazil? DEI training?) is fraud and abuse.
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                                                                                                                          • For all the critics just consider that this is the first effort in my lifetime to actually focus attention on the depth and breadth of the administrative federal state and to course correct. The focus on federal employees is a distraction. In every single industry in this country billions of dollars as wasted on the costs of “compliance “ with arcane and inane federal regulations. In fact the gross expansion of the legal profession is significantly impacted by the entire behemoth of the Code of Federal Regulations. That same Code also feeds the trial bar and class action process. It’s long past time to clean house. I am not sure I recall any effort ever to actually remove regulations.
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                                                                                                                            • Peter Grace, Ross Perot... now Elon and Vivek.
                                                                                                                              I am sure others can point to additional examples of this exercise.
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                              Not a simple task.
                                                                                                                              Good that we periodically do this but... what we find is in the end, there is a lot less gross waste, fraud, and abuse than people think.
                                                                                                                              We are a big country with a lot of perspectives on what is important.
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                              Where some people see waste, other people are thankful for a response to their needs.
                                                                                                                              That our system of government responds to so many different constituencies is what hold us together and makes us strong.
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                                                                                                                              • The people must go along with the regulations…….idle hands you know…..
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                                                                                                                              • I agree with every word in the manifesto, but the names of the authors. I remember a Twitter response from Elon Musk to Lex Friedman raising his hand to lead Twitter. Musk said: “Candidate must invest all life savings and take zero salary to demonstrate dedication and conviction ”. Well, Mr. Musk, as a government contractor and a beneficiary of removed regulations, follow your own advice - exit your companies, take modest salary and serve your country like you are trying to portray your role here. Otherwise, while this article piece looks great, it also smells as a monumental corruption scheme.
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                                                                                                                                • They are both working for free, as are the folks who volunteer to work for them.
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                                                                                                                                  • if he was taking a salary you would complain, but if he's not taking a salary you also complain. a corruption scheme usually enriches someone illicitly. so who would be enriched illicitly here? the US taxpayer?
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                                                                                                                                  • Billionaire tax breaks are also antithetical to the Founders' vision, but never you mind about that. There are several assumptions here that will not hold up being tested anywhere but in the Opinion pages. First, just by being appointed, the assumption is Elon and Vivek automatically have vast legal control over hundreds of agencies. I see this fever dream descending into a blizzard of lawsuits. Second, by severing the tens of thousands of government employees in a Purge like move, that heroic savior replacement employees will pick up the slack and create new responsive programs. In a word, nonsense. The revisions they speak will still need Congressional involvement. It will be taxpayers that feel the brunt of cancelled Federal services and programs. This cost-cutting mythology has repeatedly proven true in similar moves across industries like transportation, shipping and logistics, construction, technology, publishing and many others. Some new leaders have emerged, but only years later.
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                                                                                                                                    • The Founders did not have a vision for an income tax.
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                                                                                                                                      • Have someone explain the article to you. All those points were covered.
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                                                                                                                                      • BTW, I will settle for the size of Government , that we had under Clinton.
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                                                                                                                                        • Just going back to 2019 spending would save $2 trillion.
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                                                                                                                                        • Bravo Gentlemen! May I make a small suggestion? Start with Zero Based Budgeting, every fiscal year, for All Agencies!
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                                                                                                                                          • Like the choir in church. Beautiful sounds, inspirational and comforting but no power to save all us sinners or build churches or collect or not collect money. They do have a big organ so they will be heard. Sing out!
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                                                                                                                                            • Congress passes bills without the specifics necessary for implementation and enforcement and then delegates to the Executive Branch (which the President heads) the responsibility to work out the details.
                                                                                                                                              Executive Branch Departments and Agencies follow Administrative Law procedures to develop the regulations that bring those Congressionally-passed bills to life.
                                                                                                                                              This allows Congressmen to be all things to all people - they can both claim credit and shirk responsibility.
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                              People/businesses can push back through the Courts (the Judicial Branch) when they feel that regulations exceed what Congress intended.
                                                                                                                                              But the real way to fix this is to make Congress be more specific in the bills they pass .
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                                                                                                                                              • Well put!
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                                                                                                                                              • For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice was styled the Doge. These two have really grandiose ideas about their self importance. Seems quite narcissistic…… To be expected.
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                                                                                                                                                • And look how Venice made out, underwater.
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                                                                                                                                                • First thing to note is that the founders had the people elect the House of Representatives while the state legislatures chose the senators and, in some cases, the state’s presidential electors as well. That system’s been modified, and I’m not suggesting we’d be better off if we reverted. I mention it to underscore the fact that popular government wasn’t a design of the founders. The US declared war on Britain in 1812 with limited input from officials directly elected by the voters. The move required a majority of representatives support it, and ten of our 18 states had held popular elections when Madison ran. But only 200,000 of the nearly 7 million people in our country cast ballots; more than half were women or slaves who couldn’t vote.
                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                  Delegations of power to federal agencies have been made by Congress throughout our history. Only Congress can disband them or authorize major change in the way they operate. W. Virginia v. EPA and Loper Bright both upheld that principle; holding that statutory authority had been exceeded, but not placing locus of control over the EPA anywhere but Congress. Employees, including Trump’s appointees, will have a duty to carry out the EPA’s statutory functions. While they have discretion in how they do so, they can’t simply ignore relevant legislation, e.g. by mass impoundment or redirection of funds, mass firing, or a blanket decision not to enforce environmental laws. The DOGE is not a cabinet department, just part of Trump’s staff.
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                                                                                                                                                  • Agreed, Jesse. It's not like Donald, Elon and Vivek took their own history courses.
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                                                                                                                                                  • In July 2017, Axovant (Ramaswamy's company)announced that the results of a phase III trial indicated that the drug was not effective for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.[12][13] Axovant's stock lost 75 percent of its value in a single day.[14] It has been accused of being a pump-and-dump scheme.[15][16][17][18]
                                                                                                                                                    Ramaswamy is a scam artist who is riding on Musk's coattails to become the Governor of Ohio. Which will never happen at this rate!
                                                                                                                                                    Thanks to Joe Jensen below for this.
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                                                                                                                                                    • Doge is the new system of spoils, better be very nice to these 2 or you won't get any service from the govt. Chester Arthur must be screaming from his grave.
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