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President Donald Trump has tasked Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, (the X-Men), to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Their mission is to brainstorm ways to streamline the government and save the country trillions of dollars. The X-Men have been all over the internet and in media outlets. Musk asserting that he will trim two trillion dollars off the budget, while Ramaswamy states that he will use new Supreme Court decisions and constitutional law to cut spending and eliminate duplicative, ineffective government agencies. If they had private-sector CEO authority, they would undoubtedly be successful. Musk’s takeover of Twitter is...

This week, on the advice entrepreneur Elon Musk, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to create a government efficiency commission. "This isn't just some untried pipe dream," Trump emphasized. "Mr. Musk actually did this when he bought Twitter. By analyzing the necessary work to be done he was able to reduce staffing costs by 80% without negatively affecting the company's productivity. If we can replicate this in the federal government we could save billions of dollars without sacrificing essential services. We could lower federal debt, cut interest rates, reduce taxes and allow working men and women to keep more of...

Among the many good things that President Ronald Reagan did while in office was to bring together 161 corporate executives and community leaders -- staffed with an army of nearly 2,000 volunteers -- to study waste and inefficiency in government. Big job, that. But people took the job so seriously that the commission was funded by $76 million in contributions from the private sector. That, of course was the Grace Commission, which reported back with 2,478 recommendations which, if implemented, would have saved taxpayers an average of $141.5 billion a year -- all without eliminating any essential services.(1) To say...