One week ago today as I write, President-elect Donald Trump named entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with creating a more efficient government, most notably within the bloated federal bureaucracy.
Trump indicated that the DOGE will operate outside the confines of government.
The incoming president said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
In a joint op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy said that “following the Supreme Court’s guidance,” they will “reverse a decades-long executive power grab” (emphasis, mine):
Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we…
