An attack on the federal bureaucracy has been proposed by Donald Trump, with his idea of a new Department of Government Efficiency, to be pursued by two billionaires—Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy!
This is an attack on American democracy and the authority of the legislative branch, as the proposal is to cut the federal budget by about one third, saving $2 trillion, out of a $6.5 trillion national budget!
There are very few public figures more oboxious, all knowing, and arrogant than Musk and Ramaswamy, and the irony is that they want to create a new government agency to cut funding on other government agencies, truly looney.
Ramaswamy wants to cut the Department of Education, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service, and also, overall, cut the federal work force by 75 percent.
That should, on its own, be enough to declare these two arrogant, super wealthy prima donnas, as totally off the wall lunatics, and the ideas they promoted are basically anarchistic in nature, and needs to be repudiated in an aggressive manner!
Massive cuts in Social Security and defense spending would be required under this lunatic plan, and instead, both Musk and Ramaswamy need to be told to go back to enrichment of their own fortunes, and leave the American people alone!
There’s a mass exodus from X to BlueSky.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/x-bluesky-social-media-platforms
Though it has “department” in its name, the new project appears more akin to a presidential “blue-ribbon” commission.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/department-of-government-efficiency-elon-musk_n_6736bebce4b0a399b028e18c
WTF?! Elon Musk met with Iran’s UN ambassador.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-iran-ambassador-un
Musk is seeking “high IQ revolutionaries” to work for him for free:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-trump
It appears to me that this may be the one Trump initiative that’s going to crash and burn sooner rather than later.
Elon and Vivek will have their little hobby horse and then it will hit a brick wall, similar to Trump’s first term’s “voter fraud commission” which ended with a whimper not a bang.
This whole thing has the feel of a lark for Musk which he may very well lose interest in before too long.
And it’s already clear that Trump is getting sick of him:
https://twitter.com/cborkowski/status/1856967074213482989
I don’t know that he’s jealous of Musk exactly. He likes having the richest man in the world following him around like a dog. But he doesn’t like the fact Musk is getting any credit or that people think he’s stronger than him and taking over as “shadow president.” This bromance won’t last too much longer.
In addition to Trump wanting to close the Department of Education, one of the more troubling planks of his education platform is his pledge to “support bringing back prayer to our schools.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-school-prayer-department-of-education-rcna180067
Elon Musk is Trump’s “first buddy”.
Co-president Musk will be in the White House while Trump goes off to play golf.
You hear about Musk doing this or doing that. You don’t hear anything about Vance. It’s as if Musk is the VP.
Trump’s “first buddy” is pressuring him on Cabinet picks and tariffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/elon-musk-trump-treasury-tariffs/