A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy. DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions. The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited. Employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector. The president can use existing laws to give them incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.

Conventional wisdom holds that statutory civil-service protections stop the president or even his political appointees from firing federal workers. The purpose of these protections is to protect employees from political retaliation. But the statute allows for “reductions in force” that don’t target specific employees. The statute further empowers the president to “prescribe rules governing the competitive service.” That power is broad. Previous presidents have used it to amend the civil service rules by executive order, and the Supreme Court has held—in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that they weren’t constrained by the Administrative Procedures Act when they did so. With this authority, Mr. Trump can implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area. Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.

Finally, we are focused on delivering cost savings for taxpayers. Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone. They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question. But even without relying on that view, DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.

The federal government’s procurement process is also badly broken. Many federal contracts have gone unexamined for years. Large-scale audits conducted during a temporary suspension of payments would yield significant savings. The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent. Critics claim that we can’t meaningfully close the federal deficit without taking aim at entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which require Congress to shrink. But this deflects attention from the sheer magnitude of waste, fraud and abuse that nearly all taxpayers wish to end—and that DOGE aims to address by identifying pinpoint executive actions that would result in immediate savings for taxpayers.

Opinion piece by Elon and Vivek in today's WSJ on why we need DOGE:

Opinion: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government

Nov. 20, 2024 at 12:33 pm

Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.

President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.

We are assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America. This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings. We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws. Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution, with a focus on two critical Supreme Court rulings issued during President Biden’s tenure.

In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law.

DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies. 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. This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy.

When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies. The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so.

논란의 미국 교육부장관 지명자 린다 맥마흔 주요장면

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1859235167346246033

트럼프, 보건복지사회부 장관으로 로버트 케네디 지명 로버트 케네디는 유명한 안티백서이자 자연주의자 @realDonaldTrump I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex…

트럼프, 보건복지사회부 장관으로 로버트 케네디 지명

로버트 케네디는 유명한 안티백서이자 자연주의자

@realDonaldTrump

I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!

위대한 일론 머스크가 미국의 애국자 비벡 라마스와미와 협력하여 정부효율성부("DOGE")를 이끌게 되어 기쁩니다. 이 두 훌륭한 미국인이 함께 내 행정부가 정부 관료주의를 해체하고, 과도한 규제를 삭감하고, 낭비적인 지출을 줄이고, 연방 기관을 재구조화할 수 있는 길을 열 것입니다.

"미국을 구하라" 운동에 필수적입니다. "이것은 시스템에 충격파를 보낼 것이고, 정부 낭비에 연루된 모든 사람, 즉 많은 사람들에게 영향을 미칠 것입니다!"

머스크 씨가 말했습니다.
이것은 잠재적으로 우리 시대의 "맨해튼 프로젝트"가 될 것입니다. 공화당 정치인들은 아주 오랫동안 "DOGE"의 목표를 꿈꿔 왔습니다. 이러한 종류의 급진적인 변화를 추진하기 위해 정부 효율성부는 정부 외부에서 조언과 지침을 제공하고 백악관과 관리예산국과 협력하여 대규모 구조적 개혁을 추진하고 정부에 대한 기업가적 접근 방식을 전례 없이 만들 것입니다.

저는 Elon과 Vivek이 효율성을 염두에 두고 연방 관료제를 변화시키고 동시에 모든 미국인의 삶을 더 나은 방향으로 만들기를 기대합니다.

중요한 점은 연간 6조 5,000억 달러에 달하는 정부 지출에 존재하는 엄청난 낭비와 사기를 몰아내는 것입니다. 그들은 함께 일하여 경제를 해방하고 미국 정부가 "우리 국민"에게 책임을 지도록 할 것입니다. 그들의 작업은 늦어도 2026년 7월 4일까지 완료될 것입니다. 효율성이 더 높고 관료주의가 덜한 더 작은 정부는 독립 선언 250주년을 맞아 미국에 완벽한 선물이 될 것입니다. 저는 그들이 성공할 것이라고 확신합니다!

운영자 월요일까지 휴가중이라 단신만 올리겠습니다

[2024.08.14. 글로벌 쇼츠]
주요 이슈: 이팔전쟁, 임신중절과 미국대선, 우러전쟁, 스타벅스

하마스가 네타냐후 이스라엘 총리의 전쟁내각이 불성실하게 협상에 임하고 있다며 휴전 회담에 참여하지 않을 것이라고 밝혔습니다.

임신중절이 미국 대선 주요 이슈 중 하나로 떠오른 가운데 애리조나 유권자들은 11월 선거에서 주 헌법에 낙태 권리를 명시할 것인지를 투표합니다. 이는 주요 경합주 중 하나인 애리조나주의 선거에 큰 영향을 줄 수 있습니다.

블라디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령이 약 1,000㎢의 러시아 영토를 점령했다고 밝히며 “전쟁이 집(=러시아)으로 돌아가고 있다”라고 밝혔습니다.

스타벅스가 락스만 나라심한 CEO가 물러나고 맥시칸 음식 체인점 칙폴레(Chipotle)의 CEO 브라이언 니콜이 취임한다고 밝혔습니다. 주가는 오늘 미국증시 마감 기준 24.4% 급등했습니다.

대규모 시위로 축출된 셰이크 하시나 전 방글라데시 총리가 인도로 도피한 이후 첫 성명에서 임시정부에 시위에 대한 수사를 촉구했습니다.

홈디포가 연 매출이 3~4%정도 감소할 것으로 예측했스빈다.

유럽 집행위원회는 티에리 브트롱 내부시장 담당 집행위원이 머스크에게 X에서 허위 정보를 억제하지 못하면 처벌 받을 수 있다고 경고하기 전에 다른 관리들과 상의하지 않았다고 밝혔습ㄴ디ㅏ. 트럼프 대통령의 지지자들은 브트롱 집행위원이 미국 대선에 개입하고 있다고 비난했스빈다.

호주 멜버른이 전동 킥보드 대여를 금지한다고 밝혔습니다.

• 화성여행 보내준다고 했지 안전하게 지구로 돌아오게 해준다는 말은 안함

요즘 갑자기 심상찮아진 우러전쟁

https://x.com/mame_c/status/1821534501635514486?s=46&t=3RVBISJEGyUtRH0B59Tv2A

• 우크라이나가 찔러보기 식으로 러시아 영토(쿠르스크)를 때림

• 러시아가 알 수 없는 이유에서 사흘째 무대응

• 러시아가 수십만을 갈아넣으며 2년동안 진격한 거리보다 더 많은거리를 우크라이나가 진격

• 우크라이나가 전과 확대를 위해 추가병력 투입 중