Last week, President-elect Donald Trump announced that tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and billionaire Elon Musk would lead the new Department of Government Efficiency. Now, Ramaswamy is sharing what their department might do.
While speaking on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” the former Republican presidential candidate shared that he expects some government agencies to be “deleted outright.”
“We expect mass reductions,” Ramaswamy said. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.”
Ramaswamy went on to say that he expects “massive cuts” to federal contractors and “others who are overbilling the government.”
“I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us,” he added.
The move to pair Musk and Ramaswamy in this new government agency has received criticism from some of Trump’s opponents. Still, the pair is calling the opportunity “historic,” adding, “If we don’t downsize the federal government now, it’s never going to happen in the future as well.”
“We’re not actually going to squander this. But I think part of the key is to move quickly, to move effectively,” Ramaswamy said.
Trump says that the department will look to restructure some federal agencies while slashing “excess regulations” and cutting “wasteful expenditures.”