Posted on 11/13/2024 5:46:45 AM PST by Red Badger
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped entrepreneur Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new nongovernmental body focused on government efficiency.
“I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (‘DOGE’),” the president-elect wrote in a statement.
“It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” added Trump.
The department “will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform,” he explained.
The president-elect said DOGE will deliver “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” by July 4, 2026. This will be “the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence.”
“Threat to democracy? Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!” Musk posted on X, which he owns, Tuesday night.
Musk endorsed Trump in the closing month of the presidential campaign, while Ramaswamy endorsed Trump in January. At the Republican National Convention in July, Ramaswamy told The Daily Signal that he had enjoyed “great conversations” with the former president about a potential Cabinet position.
Trump also announced Tuesday evening that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, will be his nominee for secretary of homeland security, and Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and military veteran, will be his nominee for secretary of defense.
In March 2023, Trump released a plan to dismantle the deep state, a term referring to bureaucrats who nominally report to the president but have become insulated by public sector unions and administrative procedures. While the deep state undermined Trump’s first presidency, even Joe Biden’s presidency has arguably faced a deep state phenomenon on the issue of Israel.
Among other things, Trump promised to “clean out all the rogue actors” who had weaponized federal government agencies, so that “faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the Left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.”
“DOGE” refers to an internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme involves a picture of a Shiba Inu dog with multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The meme often features a string of phrases in comedically broken English such as, “much Deep State… more Elon… VIV-ACHE!!… less gov more fun… WOW!!”
Turn them loose.
Looks like the Trump administration will be unburdened by what has been.;-)
Musk, i need to trim this organization down, we need to centralize to one building.. dept heads- that’ll take 6 months... Musk- you have 6 weeeks.. monday- musk fires everybody.
I thought the goal was fewer government departments?
beebers are being stuned
Yep, just like he did at twitter - no fooling around the edges, get it done immediately.
sometimes you have to demolish a whole building and start from the ground up..
This is the perfect solution: A ‘department’ that destroys other departments...................
Whirlwind- it’s time to reap.
List 1 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
List 2 - https://www.usa.gov/agency-index
Where #2 doesn’t match #1... CUT IT. If there is a market need, thinking FAA or FCC, sell it off as a private consortium along the lines of the IEEE or UL...
For the Air and Space Forces, pass an Amendment to allow them to continue to exist... Or hand them back to the Army and Navy respectively.
Anyone in the bureaucracy that balks at having their unConstitutional power taken away from them, try them and execute them for Treason.
I see a pattern here. Both are likable characters who like attention. They’ll certainly get it now and it won’t be positive. That’s ok. They’ll stand up to it.
Then there’s Kristi Norm taking on the serious stuff at homeland security. She’s serious and hot! Hegseth looks too young to take on the serious issues at defense but he’s a good looking guy whose masculinity is offensive to the LGBTQ progressives.
The rats have their AOC. We’ve got more hotties. Then there’s the ugly fella who will deport.
It’s not a government agency, that’s sort of the point.
Unless this department gets rid of 10 other government departments then it’s just another beauracratic government dept
Ha!
How will Elon manage his enterprises?
Consider his companies:
- Tesla
- SpaceX
- X
- Starlink
- Neuralink
- Robots
- Tunnel boring
- Other?
...now he’ll dismantle inefficiency in the government too?
The guy is something else.
Laborers during WW2 repairing the Yorktown: It’ll take a year..
Nimitz: you have 48 hours..
Musk will do the same thing...
Release the hounds.
I'm glad they are telegraphing some of things they will adress, like defunding PBS. This will allow the dead wood to start looking for new jobs, if anyone is hiring unqualified Leftist activist deep state type losers.
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