Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead Department of Government Efficiency

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: ABC News Via AOL

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that billionaire Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate and ally of Trump, will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency.

"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies," Trump said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Department of Government Efficiency will not be a federal agency in the U.S. government but will provide advice and guidance "outside of government" and partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to "drive structural government reform," Trump said.

The president-elect did not detail how this new department would be funded.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/trump-says-elon-musk-vivek-013132572.html

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Hmmmm. . .government oversight not part of the government.

[CanonRay]

1. Two heads for one department

That's efficient

[ananda]

2. So what is "government efficiency" double speak for?

Imo, The Department of Loot and Pillage
and Keep It for Me

He's like a selfish toddler in a sandbox.

[Karasu]

5. Austerity.

Elon's going to take a page (more like all the pages) out of his buddy Milei's playbook. Republicans will call it "cost-cutting," "efficiency"...anything to cover up the reality of what they intend to needlessly inflict on the population.

[SomedayKindaLove]

3. Hopefully they meet the challenge

And both fire each other as soon as possible

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Translated

They kissed his ass the best, so this is their prize.

[travelingthrulife]

11. they bought an election, this is their prize.

MAGAS must spend their entire lives being conned by grifters like this yet they never, never figure it out.

[cstanleytech]

6. That doesn't sound or smell legal.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

7. Not a department?

This sounds like an advisory board - of which there are many - with no authority and no Congressional funding or oversight. In other words, it might just be a way to reward supporters and seem to give them a voice, without really giving them any power.

Or it could be the oligarchs setting up their collaborative from which they will direct their minion in the Oval Office to cut, Cut! CUT!!!

I can hope for the former and fear the latter.

It will be interesting (for lack of a better word) to see how Congress will take this apparent usurpation of their power and portfolio of funding and oversight of the executive branch functions.

[EarnestPutz]

9. That's what I thought. Calling it a department doesn't make it a "Department".

[Botany]

8. AKA Trump means to burn America to the ground because that is what his Boss, Vlad wants

Department of Efficiency = Killing off American Democracy & letting the fossil fuel industries
kill off the planet’s supportive system that lets our environment support, feed, and sustains
us critters who live here. The planet will still be here but humans not so much.

Ramaswamy Is a low life scum bag who made his money by inserting into “the system”
that the company he owned had a drug that worked on Alzheimer’s and sold stock in that
company and by the time it came that drug was useless he and his partners had sold their
shares in the company and walked away rich.

[lamp_shade]

10. First Lady Elon Musk.