Musk & Ramaswamy's DOGE: Cutting Federal Fat
Streamlining bureaucracy, boosting transparency by July 4, 2026.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is tasked with making our federal government more efficient in its spending and bureaucracy. While not likely to become a genuine federal agency, it is a blue ribbon panel, for lack of a better comparison.
Let’s take a look at what DOGE would like to accomplish.
Musk and Ramaswamy seek to dramatically reduce the bureaucracy of our federal government by eliminating regulations that Congress or the Executive branch has not directly mandated. They also seek to update the federal government's efficiency by leveraging better technologies, including AI.
Reducing the number of federal employees would naturally follow in a federal government that becomes more efficient with advanced technologies. DOGE would leave a more efficient and agile workforce with a better ability to focus on America’s priorities.
One of Ramaswamy and Musk's main focuses is identifying and exploiting wasteful spending. In addition to small cuts in spending to organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, DOGE will find another $500 billion in Medicare and other federal programs that are fraught with fraud. The additional technologies Ramaswamy and Musk will bring on board will make identifying all waste of the federal budget simpler and faster than in the past.
DOGE wants to bring better public engagement and transparency to the federal government. They would like to do this by:
Post detailed records of its actions online for public comment.
Create a “leaderboard” highlighting the most wasteful government programs.
Host weekly livestreams to update citizens on progress and challenges.
DOGE expects to focus its reforms on what the U.S. Constitution allows instead of the whims of public desires. If it succeeds, this approach of constitutional limits will help reign in federal spending now and into the future.
DOGE hopes to accomplish much of this by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of America’s birth. If successful, the federal government will be better for it: smaller, more transparent, and less intrusive into Americans' business and personal lives.
