It Looks Like Trump’s “Department Of Government Efficiency” Is Going To Happen

It won’t be an official department, unless the GOP run House and Senate decide to make it so, and, they really, really, really, really, really should trot out legislation to create it, because it would be delicious to see Senate Democrats filibustering it, for refusing to vote on voting for it (the whole 60 votes cloture thing). Maybe they could simply replace the Department of Education, which doesn’t seem to do much but make education worse

Trump Appoints Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy To Lead New Department Of Government Efficiency

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will together establish a new Department of Government Efficiency in his second administration.

Musk and Ramaswamy have been appointed to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump’s statement reads. The former president added that the government department led by Musk and Ramaswamy will partner with the White House Office of Management and Budget in an effort “to drive large scale structural reform.”

“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans. Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending,” Trump’s statement reads.

“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in a statement included in Trump’s press release.

But, now, they have to figure out a way to make this work and to enforce their recommendations. To have the ability to have federal employees/contractors working for them to find the waste and fraud. To do something about the fraud. The devil is in the details. Especially since they will find so much waste and fraud within the federal system that there is no joke to be found.

(UK Independent) Trump’s announcement has characterized the department as an advisory board that will “provide guidance outside of government.”

Musk and Ramaswamy’s work will conclude “no later than July 4, 2026,” the announcement added – 18 months after Trump takes office.

Now we wait and see. Will this end up being more like Rand Paul’s “Festivus” report on waste, same as a few other Republicans have done? Or something with teeth to do something about the continued waste and fraud?