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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Vivek Ramaswamy vociferously supported Trump’s hardline policies and emerged as a powerful voice of his 2024 campaign. (Reuters)
Indian-origin entrepreneur-turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy, who along with Elon Musk, has been appointed by United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump to oversee the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has indicated a massive cut in federal government jobs in a bid to “take a chainsaw” to inefficiency in the US.
While addressing an event in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Thursday, Ramaswamy said, “Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the DC bureaucracy. That, too, is how we’re going to save this country.”
“I don’t know if you’ve got to know Elon yet, but he doesn’t bring a chisel. He brings a chainsaw. We are going to be taking it to that bureaucracy. It’s going to be a lot of fun,” he added as reported by news agency PTI.
Ramaswamy further argued that too much bureaucracy means less innovation and higher costs. “That’s a real problem with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and countless other 3-letter agencies. They are utterly agnostic to how their daily decisions stifle new inventions and impose costs that deter growth.” “We are assembling the brightest minds in the country. This is the equivalent of a modern Manhattan Project. I think the major problem holding our country back is a federal bureaucracy. Target that cost, save the money, restore self-governance,” he said.
He further thanked Trump for entrusting him and Musk with this high-stakes initiative and outlined their ambitious plans for the DOGE. According to Trump, the DOGE initiative is designed to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
“We’ve been taught to believe over the last four years that we have become a nation in decline, that we’re at the end of the ancient Roman Empire. All we have is to fight over the scraps of some shrinking pie. I don’t think we have to stay as that nation in decline. I think with what happened last week, we’re back to being a nation in our ascent. A nation whose best days are actually still ahead of us,” Ramaswamy said.
“It is going to be morning in America, the start of a new dawn, the start of a country where our kids are going to grow up and we’re going to tell them and mean it, that you get ahead in the United States again with your own hard work and commitment and dedication, that you’re free to speak your mind at every step of the way, that the best person gets the job regardless of their colour,” he added.
Days after re-election to White House, Trump appointed Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, in charge of a new “Department of Government Efficiency” tasked with overhauling the federal bureaucracy. An account for the program has been created on X where it asked applicants to apply through a direct message. Despite its name, the department will operate outside government.
Meanwhile, Musk and Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the DOGE.
“Our goal is to shave the size of government and to be as transparent as possible with the public. Weekly ’Dogecasts’ will start soon,” Ramaswamy said.
“DOGE’s job is to create a government of a size and scope that our Founders would be proud of. Elon Musk and I look forward to fulfilling the mandate given to us by President Trump,” he added.
The DOGE further announced recruitment efforts on X, seeking “super high-IQ, small-government revolutionaries” willing to dedicate over 80 hours per week to cost-cutting. Applicants must message DOGE directly on X, a move that requires a paid subscription to Musk’s platform. “Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” the statement promised.
(With inputs from agencies)
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