As entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy trek to Washington D.C. to meet with GOP lawmakers this week, they have an even longer road ahead of them to achieve their goals of enacting major cuts to government budgets.
The incoming Trump administration has set itself an ambitious goal through the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will be headed by Musk and Ramaswamy, of slashing federal budgets and even eliminating an agency or two.
In a Nov. 20 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Musk and Ramaswamy stated that DOGE’s work would focus on cutting regulations, downsizing the federal workforce, and reducing the federal budget. They called for a “lean team of small-government crusaders” to join them, seeking volunteers who would work 80 hours a week without pay….