Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have spelled out their plans for DOGE

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were officially appointed the co-leads of President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) past week, and connected Wednesday, the 2 men spelled retired their plans for the advisory radical successful a agelong nonfiction successful The Wall Street Journal.

Musk and Ramaswamy accidental they volition “serve arsenic extracurricular volunteers” making recommendations that let the Trump medication to “cut the national authorities down to size.” Their superior absorption is connected cutting down national agencies, which they presumption arsenic wasteful and “antidemocratic.”

“Most ineligible edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but ‘rules and regulations’ promulgated by unelected bureaucrats,” constitute the 2 unelected men who person been tasked with cutting trillions from the national fund and rewriting authorities operations.

Musk and Ramaswamy accidental they’ll prosecute “a thin squad of small-government crusaders” to enactment with the Trump medication and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Their superior lever for alteration volition beryllium enforcement enactment leaning connected 2 caller Supreme Court rulings — West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and Loper Bright v. Raimondo (which overturned the Chevron doctrine) — which “suggest that a plethora of existent national regulations transcend the authorization Congress has granted nether the law.”

Here is however DOGE volition marque its recommendations for what Trump should enactment intermission connected — a process that volition beryllium aided vaguely by “advanced technology:”

As a result, Musk and Ramaswamy foresee Trump cutting “thousands” of national regulations and accidental that these cuts volition let for “mass head-count reductions” of authorities employees. DOGE volition effort to find the “minimum fig of employees required astatine an bureau for it to execute its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions.” This volition astir surely hobble galore authorities agencies, which enforce everything from biology protections to healthcare standards.

Musk and Ramaswamy besides suggest that Trump could enforce rules similar requiring national employees to instrumentality to the bureau 5 days per week, which they accidental could bring “voluntary terminations” they would welcome. “If national employees don’t privation to amusement up, American taxpayers shouldn’t wage them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

In the article, Musk and Ramaswamy database a fewer national expenditures that look to beryllium connected the chopping block, including “$535 cardinal a twelvemonth to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting” and “$1.5 cardinal for grants to planetary organizations to astir $300 cardinal to progressive groups similar Planned Parenthood.”

Musk and Ramaswamy purpose to “eliminate the need” for DOGE’s beingness by July 4th, 2026.