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Not sure if posted, this is great stuff. Numbers 1-4 are perfect. Found a lot of the new Vivek/Musk WSJ op-ed interesting. Highlighting some things, including one way to decrease the number of federal employees is to mandate they come to the office 5 days a weeks haha. Really like this, ready for them to get to work. Just saw @screwduke1 saw this first. Give me one of your silver medals jerk.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have published a joint op-ed piece in the WSJ outlining their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency. Full TLDR and summary below:
1) They're going to build a lean legal team to work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to apply the precedent set by two court cases:
- West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022)
- Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024)
That found that current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law to regulations agencies passed that they feel overstep their powers.They'll present them to Trump who can then issue an executive order to pause and/or rescind those regulations.
They're aware that critics will allege overreach but it's actually helping *prevent* overreach. They're also aware that executive orders aren't the best way to do things, but it's the best tool they have at the moment. Once the laws are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t revive them themselves, but would have have to go through Congress.
2) They're also going to work with agency insiders to figure out the minimum number of federal employees necessary for the agencies to function and cut down to that number. The cuts will be proportionate to the number of regulations that are nullified. Terminated employees will be given generous severance packages.
One immediate thing they'll do is mandate federal employees come to the office five days a week which will create some voluntary termination of employees. Vivek and Elon explain that it is legal for them to do this reduction.
3) They're going to examine the $500B+ plus annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress i.e.
- $535 million a year to Public Broadcasting
- $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations
- $300 million to Planned Parenthood.
4) They're going to do large scale audits. Citing that the Pentagon has failed every single audit it sever had and they manage a $800B budget that we have no idea how is spent. They want to examine that.
5) They want to conclude and disband DOGE by July 4, 2026. The ultimate gift for the 250th anniversary of The United States of America.
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have published a joint op-ed piece in the WSJ outlining their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency. Full TLDR and summary below:
1) They're going to build a lean legal team to work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to apply the precedent set by two court cases:
- West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022)
- Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024)
That found that current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law to regulations agencies passed that they feel overstep their powers.They'll present them to Trump who can then issue an executive order to pause and/or rescind those regulations.
They're aware that critics will allege overreach but it's actually helping *prevent* overreach. They're also aware that executive orders aren't the best way to do things, but it's the best tool they have at the moment. Once the laws are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t revive them themselves, but would have have to go through Congress.
2) They're also going to work with agency insiders to figure out the minimum number of federal employees necessary for the agencies to function and cut down to that number. The cuts will be proportionate to the number of regulations that are nullified. Terminated employees will be given generous severance packages.
One immediate thing they'll do is mandate federal employees come to the office five days a week which will create some voluntary termination of employees. Vivek and Elon explain that it is legal for them to do this reduction.
3) They're going to examine the $500B+ plus annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress i.e.
- $535 million a year to Public Broadcasting
- $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations
- $300 million to Planned Parenthood.
4) They're going to do large scale audits. Citing that the Pentagon has failed every single audit it sever had and they manage a $800B budget that we have no idea how is spent. They want to examine that.
5) They want to conclude and disband DOGE by July 4, 2026. The ultimate gift for the 250th anniversary of The United States of America.
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POLITICAL THREAD
- The Paddock - General Discussion Forum
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They've really really told you to be outraged about this.This is coming from his fellow Republicans....
Matt Gaetz used to brag about taking erectile dysfunction drugs with energy drinks 'so he could go all night,' says GOP senator
"He bragged about how he would crush E.D. medicine and chase it with energy drinks so he could go all night," said GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin.www.businessinsider.com
Meanwhile, you still haven't figured out your party doesn't give a rats ass about anything but power, especially not making any policy for the ppl:
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