Entire US agencies will be deleted under Trumps new DOGE, Vivek Ramaswamy says

Entire federal agencies will be “deleted” under President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government efficiency, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy pledged.Ramaswamy, the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on “a real-time basis.”“We expect mass reductions,” the biotech entrepreneur told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.“We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” Ramaswamy, 39, said.“We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.“We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government,” he continued.

“I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move.”During his 2024 bid in the Republican primary, Ramaswamy had frequently talked about taking a sledgehammer to the administrative state, including a plan to fire federal workers if their Social Security number ended in an odd number.Trump, 78, formally announced DOGE last week and explained that it would conclude its work by July 4, 2026.Despite its title, DOGE is not technically a federal department.

Its name is inspired by the cryptocurrency and meme DOGE, which is eponymous with its acronym.Ramaswamy contended that the Nov.

5 election results gave Trump a mandate for dramatic change.“They haven’t voted for incremental change here this time,” he argued.“We have voted for sweeping change, and the voters actually deserve to get it.

And we’re focused on how to do that as early and as quickly as possible.”Citing the Supreme Court’s past rulings on federal overreach, Ramaswamy stressed that this is an opportunity to downsize.“Rescind those regulations, pull those regs back, and then that gives us the industrial logic to then downsize the size of that administrative state,” he said.“And the beaut...