President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said on Sunday that some federal agencies will be “deleted outright” and that contractors may see “massive cuts” in what they can charge when the incoming administration takes office next year.
Last week, Trump named former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to lead the presidential advisory commission, DOGE. Their work must be completed no later than July 4, 2026, Trump said in his statement.
Ramaswamy told Fox Business on Sunday that “there is massive waste, fraud, and abuse right now.”
“Federal contractors are really exploiting the federal government,” he said.
When Fox host Maria Bartiromo asked him whether entire government agencies will be closed, he responded in the affirmative.
“We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,“ Ramaswamy said. ”We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts of all federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above.”
As a presidential candidate, Ramaswamy had called for totally eliminating or restructuring of several agencies, including the FBI, the Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Elaborating on Fox, Ramaswamy said that “failures of the executive branch need to be addressed.”
“Unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through executive action” are running the government, he said, which needs to be fixed by the executive branch.
“This is about restoring self-governance and accountability in America as well. Elected leaders, if they make the wrong decisions, voters have a great choice. You can vote them out and remove them,” Ramaswamy said.
“Most of the people making these decisions from health care to the Department of Defense are failing on effectiveness because they have no accountability. Historically, it’s been the view of many scholars to say that those people could not even be fired. Now, we take a different view with the environment the Supreme Court has given us in recent years, and we’re going to use that in a pretty extensive way to move quickly.”
DOGE will not be an official government agency, meaning that both Ramaswamy and Musk are not considered Cabinet members in the incoming Trump administration and therefore not subject to the Senate confirmation.
Both Ramaswamy and Musk, as well as Tulsi Gabbard, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined the president-elect at a UFC event at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Gabbard is Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, while Trump nominated Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
On Thursday, DOGE’s account on social platform X, which is owned by Musk, posted a job listing announcement that is calling for individuals to work 80 or more hours per week ahead of Trump’s return to the White House.
Musk and Ramaswamy both threw their support behind Trump this year.
Start with the Dept of IN-Justice !!
How about a brian dead word like “Department of National intelligence” that acts more stupidly than Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This whole government is populated by oxymorns, whose actions display the compete opposite of what their name declares. AFFORDABE Healthcare is another example, that turned out to be not so affordable after all.
I agree. START with gutting the so-called dept of Just US.. INC THE FBI and “Dept of homeland security”..
How about the government agency heads, or speakers of the house like Pelosi who get heads up company profit and loss alerts that could invest in or sell their stock options for government regulation favors either being taken away or more dished out, depending on how much or how efficient the money laundry was working? Heads of departments who consistently have cost overruns should be held accountable either in personal loss of pay or outright termination of employment or post? We can totally eliminate the department of education in favor of the States, and save money lost up front in salaries, offices, paperwork, and bad unworkable policies, but more so in eliminating the mind bending socialist indoctrinations of entitlement that deprive child citizens of the capability to work smart, earn high, and pay more in income taxes to support and payoff our national debt.
Id add in EVERYONE in the DoD responsible for darn near EVERY MILITARY CONTRACT running over cost AND OVER TIME, due to every damn one of them having to ‘change things’ after the contract was signed, THUS DRIVING UP THE COSTS!!!
” EDUCATION IS A WEAPON IT’S EFFECTS DEPENDS ON WHO HOLDS IT IN HIS HANDS AND AT WHO IT IS AIMED.” AUTHOR UNKNOW