Dept of Government Efficiency

Dept of Govt Efficiency — click for the wiki page

Things have been moving fast since Trump won the Nov 5th US Presidential election. Trump has announced a few of his nominations for top executive position. I am most excited about Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as the director of national intelligence — a position that oversees intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been made jointly in charge of a “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). That department is not part of the federal government, and the two will work pro bono. DOGE will only provide advice; various agencies of the federal government may choose to follow the advice or not, as directed by the head of the executive branch, the president of the US.

I am sure that Elon and Vivek will do a stellar job. Vivek is legally trained and must know his constitutional law inside out. Elon gets things done. Quite a team.

I suppose the two of them will also be paying close attention to Javier Milei. Both have expressed admiration of Milei.

Talking of admiration, I am happy to note that Elon posted an old video of Peter Robinson in conversation with Milton Friedman. Watch:

Elon and Vivek wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal outlining their agenda. Here’s the text:

As Elon likes to say, success is an option but excitement is guaranteed!

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Author: Atanu Dey

Economist.

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