The plan by the DOGE-duo of Musk and Ramaswamy can actually be seen not as a radical attack on government, but rather as an effort to restore some balance after four years of the Democrats’ insane spending and debt accumulation to pay for its COVID schemes.
The vast expansion of the wasteful spending of the bureaucratic and administrative state, the power of government to censor constitutionally free speech, along with Dems’ lawfare against their ideological enemies, have soured people on the progressive vision of an ever-expanding federal government.
This is going to be a revolution.” And by that, he means a root-and-branch restructuring of the U.S. government and its sprawling, wasteful mega-bureaucracy, with co-leader Ramaswamy set to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” Ambitious indeed.
But that’s just a base number set by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, tagged by President-elect Donald Trump to head the new Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE” for short.
Pinkerton asks: Why not take entitlement spending entirely out of the federal budget, and pay for it with royalties from energy on federal properties, just as Texas now pays for its first-rate University of Texas system with state oil royalties? That’s just one idea.
Meanwhile, thanks to our trillion-dollar annual deficits, federal debt has exploded from “just” $22.7 trillion in 2019 to $36 trillion currently, a 59% rise in just five years.
DiLeo recently described in American Thinker: They intend an 18-month project, hopefully to conclude by our nation’s 250th anniversary, in which they will apply standard American manufacturing cost-cutting techniques such as LEAN and Six Sigma tools, to find out how much fat is in every federal department, bureau and agency, and cut it out as fast as possible.
First, a quick look at the damage done: Total spending for fiscal 2024, which ended in September, was $6.752 trillion, a 52% gain from 2019’s pre-COVID $4.447 trillion.
With $36 trillion in debt (and rising fast), we as a nation will soon be functionally bankrupt, unable to pay our bills or raise more money in debt markets to continue our spending.
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