Musk, Ramaswamy outline ‘drastic’ cuts as US gov’t efficiency tsars
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Trump allies say they will ‘liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress’.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, United States President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “efficiency” tsars, have outlined plans for a “drastic reduction” in regulations and “mass head-count reductions”.
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would rely on two recent Supreme Court rulings that limited the authority of federal regulatory agencies to “liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress”.
Musk and Ramaswamy said they would work with legal experts within government agencies and use advanced technology to identify regulations that Trump could “immediately pause the enforcement of” and subject to “review and rescission”.
“When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote.
“In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorised by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies.”
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