D.O.G.E. IS GOING TO EAT YOUR JOB?

By dobriyalducky@gmail.com Dec 15, 20240

D.O.G.E.(DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY) seemingly a winking reference to Musk’s cryptocurrency of choice, dogecoin – was first announced by Donald Trump last month. “A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” Trump said when announcing the new body DOGE.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to discuss their newly-announced advisory team that the two billionaires say will cut regulations, spending, and headcounts within the federal government.

D.O.G.E IS GOING TO BE A GOVT. DEPARTMENT OR PRIVATE?

However D.O.G.E has a clear support of donald trump and have “department” in the name it is not an official government department , type of body that has to be established through an act of Congress and typically employs thousands of staff. instead of that D.O.G.E will operate as an advisory body, run by two of Trump’s closest allies and with a direct line to the White House.

It’s also not clear how the organization will operate. It could come under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which dictates how external groups that advise the government must operate and be accountable to the public. DOGE is not an official government department, raising questions about its powers and how it will operate.

Musk and ramaswamy the pair will assist the Trump transition team in recruiting the Doge team, they said, who will provide guidance to the White House on spending cuts, and compile a list of regulations they believe are outside agencies’ legal authority

HOW DOGE WILL MAKE CUT?

Doge’s leaders want major government reform, by way of major cuts.Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in the Journal. “Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.” Musk said that he can find more than $2tn in savings – around a third of annual federal government spending.

“I think we should be spending the public’s money wisely,” Musk said on Thursday, on his way to a closed-door meeting with incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune

Ramaswamy, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year, vowed during his campaign to shutter the Education Department, the FBI, and the IRS – promises he has repeated in recent weeks.

Ramasamy thanked Trump “for making sure that Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the DC bureaucracy”.we’re going to be taking it to that bureaucracy,” Ramaswamy said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

according to Musk, all that work at Doge will not be rewarded with a salary.”this will be tedious work,make lot of enemies and compensation is zero,”musk wrote on X.

Trump allies hope Doge will mirror the Grace Commission, a private-sector commission established by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 to reform the federal bureaucracy and control spending.

Donald Trump is vowing to reduce wasteful federal spending by tapping two billionaires — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — to spearhead the initiative, which the president-elect is calling the DOGE.

Musk’s claim he can cut $2 trillion in spending, they also point out there are opportunities to look at efficiencies.

Eliminating Medicare fraud is one area that could result in savings, according to the Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan group that looks at government spending. Its recommendations also include reducing the nation’s contributions to the U.N. and ending subsidies for some agricultural products, like dairy and sugar. Its projected savings: $377 billion in the first year, or about 19% of the $2 trillion that Musk is eyeballing.

CONCLUSION;

Despite major proposals, there are significant hurdles to making a sizable dent in overall spending Only 16% of the government’s $6.1 trillion spending in 2023 went to fund non-defense “discretionary” programs like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And cuts to defense spending, which is popular among lawmakers of all stripes and a boon to Musk’s companies, aren’t likely to find much buy-in.

This is not the first effort to address government spending.”You may need to rebuild it and you may need to adapt it to contemporary purposes,” “But the way to do it is not by taking a sledgehammer to it.”