The Op-ed appeared in The Wall Street Journal. 
The idea is to go after regulations from the executive branch.
"DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission," wrote Musk and Ramaswamy. "This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy."
Mass layoffs of federal workers are coming, Ramaswamy said on Fox News earlier this week.
“We expect mass reductions,” Ramaswamy said. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions-in-force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.”
David McGarry of Taxpayers Protection Alliance likes the idea of DOGE and says there is a lot of good that Musk and Ramaswamy will be able to do.
"There is certainly hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse that they can cut, and I'm sure that if they look at new technology even AI can make the operations of government more efficient," says McGarry. "However, I think they are a bit too … bullish on their chances of totally turning around the federal government's fiscal outlook without involving Congress."
Congress has the keys
In our system, McGarry says Congress is the driver, the "pre-eminent branch of the federal government" and also the reason why the executive branch has all this power and is spending all this money.
"Congress delegated those powers and appropriated those funds," says McGarry. "With all due respect to Musk and Ramaswamy, they cannot without Congress dismantle the structures of administrative governance that, again, were erected by Congress in the first place."
