Vivek Ramaswamy, co-head of the newly-established Department of Government Efficiency, is making bold promises about the future of federal agencies. In a recent interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, Ramaswamy vowed to take drastic action, including the “deletion” of entire government agencies.
Ramaswamy, alongside billionaire Elon Musk, who is also helping lead the new department, outlined their ambitious plans to overhaul the federal government.
“Over the last 40 years, even conservatives, we’ve talked a big game for 40 years about cutting the federal government, about reducing the scope of the federal government Politicians haven’t been able to do it,” Ramaswamy said. “But Elon and I, we’re not politicians. We’re businessmen. We’re coming at it from the outside. Sometimes if you go inside, you become native to the system.”
When asked directly by Bartiromo whether they would be closing down government departments, Ramaswamy responded emphatically: “We expect massive reductions. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts of all federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above.”
With Musk’s backing, the pair is poised to challenge the status quo, promising to push for deep cuts and restructure the federal government’s operations from the ground up.
Watch the clip below, via Fox News.
BARTIROMO: Are you expecting to close down entire agencies? President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example
RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. pic.twitter.com/PyavrKAHaX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 17, 2024
