Posted on 12/01/2024 7:23:38 AM PST by libh8er
……. The outreach appears to include venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick. Antonio Gracias, a former Tesla director, and Steve Davis, president of the Boring Company, were named too. The latter two are affiliated with Musk’s many companies.
And it seems that cohort is involved in the planning but, more specifically, is expected to work on technical challenges to collecting data on federal employees and programs. Andreessen is recruiting talent, according to the Washington Post.
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is supposedly charged with cutting costs and reducing headcount. “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,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, despite regularly denouncing the media.
According to the Washington Post, the two aren’t only looking to build their team, but finding others who will help their cause. People familiar told the publication that Musk and Ramaswamy lobbied for Russell Vought, whom Trump chose to run the White House budget office. Vought is reportedly close to Ramaswamy, and he and Musk see Vought as a potential ally. In the Wall Street Journal op-ed, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote: “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.”
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BTTT
A Congress accustomed to massive omnibus bills & debt-ceiling increases ain’t going to like being put on a meager budget.
Expect main media crying about under-funded programs and all the unfortunates & migrants struggling to exist and it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
Every new jobs report under-reported, too.
We look more like Russia every day.
Instead of America’s oligarchs getting involved in (the greatly needed) reform of America’s government - shouldn’t CONGRESS be doing this?
Congress is the problem.
Instead of America’s oligarchs getting involved in (the greatly needed) reform of America’s government - shouldn’t CONGRESS be doing this?
The theory of leadership says that it moves around, it is not in any one person or position.
My eyes are seeing good leadership.
How many decades did we give to Congress in order to do this, and they never did.
And in order for them to actually do what they should’ve done 30 years ago, I believe the catalyst would be something so catastrophic, that we will have wished we let these billionaires straighten the ship out before we went over the cliff
One other comment - the FIRST place to start is reform of America’s government STATISTICS reporting.
Everything from inflation to labor to violent crime reporting from Fed.gov is now colored and corrupted by politicized bureaucracies and incompetence.
Even something as minor as USDA apple harvest reports now leave out the vast majority of states, because after DEI, foodstamps, etc... USDA doesn’t have enough money to survey minor states about their production. So they just check the top seven states and “estimate” the rest.
make the statistics and reporting fully independent so Americans can first get the TRUTH.
Yeah, they've been doing such a bang up job already.
In case you haven’t noticed congress are a bunch of pussys that don’t and never will have the balls to do anything about the BEAST of government!! Our founders have turned in their graves so many times they may think they have been buried alive!!! WE ALL have elected utter LOSERS that have never done a damn thing in their lives except grift off of our tax dollars and pad their pockets with lobbyist money!!!
Everyone in Congress is beholden to someone. Unfortunately, billionaires are usually billionaires because they make the rules...or control those who do.
How many of these rich people get some contract from the federal government ?
Congress doesn’t do crap. They are mostly on the take and do nothing to benefit the American people.
Marc Andreessen donated a million dollars to GMI PAC(Sam Bankman Fried). The GMI PAC primarily supported Democrats. Again, STAY AWAY!
You realize that Congress is stealing from the American People?
Congress funded and enabled this mess. Then turned a blind eye towards it all.
“Our founders have turned in their graves so many times”
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Our Founders wanted the central government to have very limited power. What we have instead is an out-of-control bloated and overbearing one.
Congress just does the will of the oligarchs so we might as well put the oligarchs in charge and cut out the middle man. We have to make sure the super rich keep getting their fat government handouts and an endless stream of foreign labor!
One can only hope that Trump’s administration and DOGE will be something akin to Milei’s chainsaw approach, which has pulled Argentina away from the brink in just one year. Will it be painful? Yes. Will there be wailing and gnashing of teeth? Brace yourselves. The US is confronting a terminal cancer that has metastasized and it’s going to require drastic treatment to beat it. That which doesn’t kill us will make us stronger. Whatever shall we do with millions of bureaucrats suddenly unemployed with no marketable real world skills to fall back on?
shouldn’t CONGRESS be doing this?
And while the process will be entertaining to watch, which ones stand up to defend the waste of money, I fear the result will be less than we hope for. The swamp will mightily resist being drained.
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