Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Promise New Podcast to Discuss Destruction of U.S. Government

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy volition soon pb a new non-governmental agency that President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with stripping billions of dollars from the U.S. government. And these U.S. oligarchs volition beryllium explaining their efforts successful a caller podcast, according to a video posted by Ramaswamy precocious Wednesday.

Musk and Ramaswamy were named to what they’re calling the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a caller committee of sorts that volition beryllium attempting to occurrence thousands of workers and abolish full national agencies. But the 2 men don’t person immoderate authoritative authorization to bash those things. At slightest not yet, according to longstanding norms.

“Elon and I, we’re not politicians. We’re businessmen. We’re not going successful arsenic authorities bureaucrats oregon adjacent employees. We’re extracurricular volunteers,” Ramaswamy said successful a video posted Wednesday to YouTube.

Why would Ramaswamy and Musk enactment arsenic volunteers? Apparently, it’s due to the fact that they conscionable emotion the state truthful overmuch and has thing to bash with their self-interest. It’s surely conscionable a coincidence that Musk has made his luck connected the backs of authorities subsidies and contracts. As the New York Times reported past month, successful 2023 alone, Musk’s companies were promised astir $3 cardinal dispersed retired crossed 100 antithetic contracts from 17 national agencies. Ramaswamy made his luck successful pharmaceuticals.

These guys person a batch astatine stake. And that’s wherefore they’re going to motorboat a podcast to archer everyone astir what they’re up to. It’s each astir “transparency,” arsenic Ramaswamy describes it, and surely isn’t a propaganda propulsion to normalize the wanton demolition they’re astir to unleash.

“Elon and I are going to commencement a abstracted way of DOGEcasts that explicate precisely what we’re doing to the nationalist to supply transparency,” Ramaswamy said successful his caller video. “And what is simply a once-in-a-generation project? We privation to bring the nationalist on with america to assistance the curtain, to instrumentality america down the scenes of what really that waste, fraud, and maltreatment successful authorities looks like.”

Ramaswamy didn’t accidental erstwhile the DOGEcast would start, insisting they’re, “neck heavy close present successful transitioning to the caller dawn connected January 20.” That caller dawn volition beryllium much similar a sunset for American ideology from the position of fractional the country. Trump has promised wide deportations and a full-fledged onslaught connected his governmental rivals, including the usage of the subject domestically. The Trump squad is adjacent readying to spell aft U.S. generals progressive successful the withdrawal from Afghanistan nether the pretense that they were doing thing treasonous, according to CNN. Gen. Mark Milley, who Trump has antecedently said should beryllium executed for treason, is apt precocious connected that database of targets.

Musk and Ramaswamy volition look obstacles with DOGE, adjacent if they person a fascist person similar Trump connected their side. Both the details of their program and the legality of their “department” are hotly debated, but these highly affluent men are deadly superior erstwhile they accidental they privation to chopped authorities spending astatine catastrophic levels. The U.S. oligarchs wrote an op-ed successful the Wall Street Journal published Wednesday trying to warrant their goals. And they judge thing they mightiness effort that’s present wide considered amerciable would beryllium upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

From the Journal:

Skeptics question however overmuch national spending DOGE tin tame done enforcement enactment alone. They constituent to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has antecedently suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we judge the existent Supreme Court would apt broadside with him connected this question. But adjacent without relying connected that view, DOGE volition assistance extremity national overspending by taking purpose astatine the $500 cardinal positive successful yearly national expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress oregon being utilized successful ways that Congress ne'er intended, from $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.

The op-ed besides claims that they’re going to usage precocious exertion to marque cuts, though it’s not wide what that means. There’s a bully accidental they’d deploy artificial quality tools similar Musk’s Grok, but we simply don’t cognize yet.

“We don’t privation DOGE to beryllium forever,” Ramaswamy said successful his new video. “To the contrary, we privation this to end, and the request for it to end, by July 4th, 2026, which is appropriate. That’s the 250th day of the American Declaration of Independence. And I tin deliberation of nary amended acquisition to this state than a downsized authorities that would marque our founding fathers proud. And that’s what we anticipation to assistance play a relation successful delivering for them.”

We’ll person to hold and spot however palmy these oligarchs mightiness beryllium astatine slashing and burning elements of the authorities they don’t find utile to themselves. Some radical are hopeful that Trump whitethorn tyre of Musk, who’s getting a batch of attraction for his ambitious plans to remake the authorities successful his image. Trump, of course, hates erstwhile different radical get much attraction than him. And Musk’s latest Time mag cover volition surely irk Trump.

How Elon Musk became a kingmaker https://t.co/1JPlCQq1HE pic.twitter.com/83OhT0OgXE

— TIME (@TIME) November 21, 2024

But Musk and Trump some person a batch to summation by moving unneurotic to dismantle the U.S. government. And cipher tin truly foretell what volition travel next. Matt Gaetz conscionable withdrew his information for Attorney General connected Thursday, which was rather a surprise. So each bets are disconnected for the foreseeable future. If you deliberation you cognize for definite however this each shakes out, you’re astir apt kidding yourself.