Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have called the federal bureaucracy an “existential threat to our republic.” Now, President-elect Donald J. Trump is empowering them to drastically shrink it, by whatever means necessary. David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, discusses their plans — and what it would look like if they were actually carried out.
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Your money is being wasted and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have called the federal bureaucracy a, quote, existential threat to our republic.
We're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook.
Now President Elect Trump is empowering them to drastically shrink it by whatever means necessary.
America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before.
The future is going to be amazing.
Today, my colleague David Farenthal examines their plans and what it would look like if they actually carried them out.
It's Wednesday, December 4th.
So, David, you've been doing some reporting on plans by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to cut government to the tune of $2 trillion.
You're trying to understand exactly what this effort is and how it would work.
Tell me what you're finding.
Well, we're talking about this thing called the Department of Government Efficiency.
Those of you who are on the Internet may know that that's a meme.
It's named after a funny dog meme that Elon Musk likes and a cryptocurrency, apparently, and a cryptocurrency that's named after the funny dog meme.