Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated Tuesday that he is “all in” on helping billionaires Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk in cutting down government spending through the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.
Ramaswamy has previewed the work that DOGE will do, stating that certain government agencies could be cut “outright” with “massive cuts” made on those overbilling the government.
On Tuesday, Paul appeared on Fox News’s The Story on Martha MacCallum and was asked about DOGE’s expected accomplishments. The senator joked that he felt as if he was at a revival meeting where he could say “amen” to Ramaswamy’s aspirations, adding that the Senate has already sent DOGE “2,000 pages of waste that can be cut.”
“I’m all in and will do anything I can to help them,” Paul said. “I think we’ve never had a president and a team like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that have this degree of momentum, incisiveness, and frankly, energy and drive to do it. That’s what it takes. It’s a monster, it’s a leviathan, but can you cut? Sure, you can cut. You can cut through attrition, you can cut through letting people go. There are some departments that would be gone and you would not know.”
Paul contended that the Department of Education could disappear without being missed, a move that lines up with Trump’s promise to abolish it under his watch. The Republican senator argued that the scores and performances of students have worsened in the last forty years. He noted that getting rid of the Department of Education could even help these students as local control in schools would increase.
MacCallum pointed to a factor Musk has touted in abolishing the DOE, being that members of the DOE would be given two years of severance to find a job, and asked Paul if this can be achieved. Paul contended that while this is “yet to be determined,” one way this could be accomplished is through “a rescission package,” which would only need a simple majority to pass.
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“So if rescission would work, and all the Republicans stay together, you could cut billions, if not trillions, of dollars in spending,” Paul said.
DOGE’s X account has promoted that it’s hiring “revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week” ahead of Trump’s administration entering the White House. The president-elect has stated that Musk and Ramaswamy’s work “will conclude no later than July 4, 2026,” which happens to be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.