Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Thursday that they plan to stop federal overspending by taking aim at sums being used in ways Congress never intended — including money going to the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone,” Ramaswamy and Musk wrote in a joint Wall Street Journal op-ed. “They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question.”
“But even without relying on that view,” they added, “DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that…
