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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 Once the laws are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t revive them themselves, but would have have to go through Congress.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.
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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All these guys think exactly how you want people to think who will be in charge of things.
Patel:"Look at how differently you can be treated by the Justice System in the USA depending on your political orientation.
Go back to the Antifa riots, two liberal attorneys, white-shoe lawyers, firebombed an NYC police car and burned it to the ground with Molotov cocktails... That's a ten-year minimum mandatory federal prison sentence.
Do you know what this DOJ did? Waved the charges and basically gave them probation. That's the two-tiered system of justice."
Homan is a dog. Every time he talks it is worth a listen.
Patel:"Look at how differently you can be treated by the Justice System in the USA depending on your political orientation.
Go back to the Antifa riots, two liberal attorneys, white-shoe lawyers, firebombed an NYC police car and burned it to the ground with Molotov cocktails... That's a ten-year minimum mandatory federal prison sentence.
Do you know what this DOJ did? Waved the charges and basically gave them probation. That's the two-tiered system of justice."
Homan is a dog. Every time he talks it is worth a listen.
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Russia launches an ICBM for the first time at Ukraine.
"PUTIN TO U.S: MY ICBMs CAN REACH CALIFORNIA…Firing an ICBM at Ukraine is like driving a Formula1 car to pick up McDonald’s… There is only one reason: a warning to the west to show off Russian capabilities."
"PUTIN TO U.S: MY ICBMs CAN REACH CALIFORNIA…Firing an ICBM at Ukraine is like driving a Formula1 car to pick up McDonald’s… There is only one reason: a warning to the west to show off Russian capabilities."
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