Musk, Ramaswamy Unveil Plans For Mass US Government Layoffs

The Facts

• Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, set to head President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Wednesday revealed plans to “cut the federal government down to size,” particularly torpedoing civil-service protections.

• They lay forth their plan—cutting federal spending by $500B—in a join article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that the US was not functioning today according to its founding "basic idea that the people we elect run the government."

• They emphasized that most government enforcement decisions and spending were carried out by unelected officials and this "is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision." Musk and Ramaswamy did not say how many jobs will be cut.