Musk and Vivek elaborate on the plan of the Government Efficiency Department to provide recommendations on which jobs Trump should suspend

Last week, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were officially appointed as co heads of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). On Wednesday, the two elaborated on their plans for the advisory group. Musk and Ramaswamy stated that they will provide suggestions "as external volunteers" to encourage the Trump administration to "reduce the size of the federal government. Their main focus is to cut federal agency spending, as they believe these agencies are wasteful of funds and "anti democratic". Most laws and regulations are not laws enacted by Congress, but 'rules and regulations' enacted by unelected bureaucrats, "the two pointed out, stating that their task is to cut trillions of dollars in federal budgets and rewrite government operations. It stated that they will hire a "lean team of small government reformers" to collaborate with the Trump administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Their main means of driving change is through administrative actions based on two recent Supreme Court rulings, namely West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and Loper Bright v. Raimondo (overturning the Chevron Principles), which "indicate that a large number of existing federal regulations exceed the powers granted by Congress under the law The following is how DOGE will provide recommendations on which jobs Trump should suspend, with the help of "advanced technology": "DOGE will work with legal experts in government agencies to apply these rulings to federal regulations formulated by these agencies using advanced technology. DOGE will submit this list of regulations to President Trump, who can immediately suspend the implementation of these regulations through administrative measures and initiate review and revocation procedures. This will free individuals and businesses from illegal regulations that Congress has never passed, and stimulate the US economy Therefore, the two expect Trump to cut "thousands" of federal regulations and say these cuts will allow for "massive layoffs" of government employees. DOGE will attempt to determine the minimum number of employees required for an institution to perform its constitutional and statutory functions. In the article, Musk and Ramaswamy listed some federal spending that seemed to be about to be cut, including "allocating $535 million annually to public broadcasting companies" and "allocating $1.5 billion to international organizations and nearly $300 million to progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood. （The Verge）