CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Musk Will Go 'Crazy' Running 'Government Efficiency' Effort
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Jeffrey Toobin noted Tuesday that “there is a very boring” but “very important law” that could hamper Donald Trump's plans.
The bureaucratic hoops Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will have to jump through as the heads of President-elect Donald Trump’s planned Department of Government Efficiency will drive them both “crazy,” predicted CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said on social media when announcing the new entity, nicknamed DOGE, Tuesday.
Trump went on to compare the effort, which is not an official government agency, to the Manhattan Project, which compartmentalized the secret development of the first atomic bomb during World War II.
Trump provided no further details about its creation. Toobin says that will be a colossal mission of its own.
The former prosecutor said Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that, while Trump can appoint anyone he wants, “there is a very boring and very important law called the Administrative Procedures Act” — which governs how federal agencies are developed.
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Jeffrey Toobin noted Tuesday that “there is a very boring” but “very important law” that could hamper Donald Trump's plans.
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