Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy previewed the “sweeping change” he and fellow billionaire Elon Musk will be making to the United States government, which they will do together through the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.
Ramaswamy explained that both he and Musk are businessmen, not politicians, allowing them to rework the system from “the outside” as they aim to make “quick wins” in the first few months of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. He added that they will lay the work for Congress to continue D.O.G.E.’s work in the future. He added that while members of Congress are only focused on what they can achieve within two years, D.O.G.E. is focused on the next 250 years, which is why “deep cuts” are needed within the nation.
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“We expect mass reductions, we expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” Ramaswamy said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “We expect mass reductions enforced in areas of the federal government that are bloated; we expect massive cuts of federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government, so, yes, we expect all of the above. And I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us.”
Ramaswamy also addressed “the dirty little secret” of how “most people” in Washington, D.C.’s federal agencies will not show up to work, and a way to determine who these people are would be to mandate they attend work in person. He also contended that various agencies could be moved out of D.C. to areas where they would be “more accountable to the people.”
On Thursday, D.O.G.E.’s X account posted a job listing announcement, calling for “revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week” ahead of Trump’s return to the White House next year. Trump said Musk and Ramaswamy’s work “will conclude no later than July 4, 2026,” the 250th anniversary of the United States.
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Ahead of the 2024 election, which Trump won against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump previewed his desire to cut down on federal agencies in the government, which would include giving Musk an unofficial role in his Cabinet. He had, at one point, referenced Musk as his “Secretary of Cost Cutting.”
Following Trump’s victory and the formation of D.O.G.E., the memecoin Dogecoin has surged in value to over double its worth since Election Day. The cryptocurrency was founded in 2013, and has since been popularized in part by Musk in 2020.