Music to my ears: Vivek Ramaswamy teases ‘mass reductions’ under new DOGE – and expects certain agencies will be ‘deleted outright’

[DKG]

Entire federal agencies will be "deleted" under President-elect Donald Trump's so-called Department of Government efficiency, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy pledged.

Ramaswamy, the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for "mass reductions" in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on "a real-time basis."

"We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright," Ramaswamy, 39, told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.

"We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government," he continued. "I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we're able to move."

During his 2024 bid in the Republican primary, Ramaswamy had frequently talked about taking a sledgehammer to the administrative state, including a plan to fire federal workers if their Social Security number ended in an odd number.

Trump, 78, formally announced DOGE last week and explained that it would conclude its work by July 4, 2026. Despite its title, DOGE is not technically a federal department. Its name is inspired by the Dogecoin cryptocurrency and memes.

Ramaswamy contended that the Nov. 5 election results gave Trump a mandate for dramatic change.

"They haven't voted for incremental change here this time," he argued. "We have voted for sweeping change, and the voters actually deserve to get it. And we're focused on how to do that as early and as quickly as possible."

Citing the Supreme Court's past rulings on federal overreach, Ramaswamy stressed that this is an opportunity to downsize.

"Rescind those regulations, pull those regs back, and then that gives us the industrial logic to then downsize the size of that administrative state," he said. "And the beauty of all of this is, that can be achieved just through executive action without Congress."
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This is long overdue. In both Canada and the US, government has become too costly and bloated. It's overreach benefits a privileged few instead of all the people.

I hope this is not all empty talk. While I do not believe the Trump administration can eliminate agencies without congressional approval they can aggressively downsize them.

This is necessary in Canada after ten years of Trudeau expanding the size of the federal government at Canadians' expense. It's been inflationary negatively impacting living standards. But, Poilivere will take a much more timid approach.

[Oliver the Second]

Damn good news! Smaller government is better government!

[Herman]

I aint no small government is always best kinda voter. But, I know the state has gotten too big and it don't offer most folks anything besides higher taxes and debt.

[Lokmar]

I want very small government. So small, if you cant feed yourself and your kids, the kids get taken away from you and you have to rely on non government charity or you DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!

[Shen Li]

The more civil servants North America has, the poorer the people have become. This is particulary the case in True Dope's Canada. Canada is barely a first world nation anymore.