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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramoswamy lay out their plans for a new department of government

efficiency, but what and how much can they accomplish from outside the federal bureaucracy

and without the help of Congress? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member, Mnayoukwe

Berua. In an announcement earlier this month that he knew would make some news, Donald Trump said he was excited to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in a new department of government efficiency, which would be outside of the government despite its name, but would work on streamlining federal agencies.

Trump said it will become potentially the Manhattan Project of our time.

Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of Doge for a very long time.

He also said that this Department of Government Efficiency would wrap up its work by July 4th,

2026.

Let's listen to Mr. Ramaswami on Fox News Sunday last week explaining what he intends to accomplish. So first is we want to go right in through executive

action to do the failures of the executive branch that need to be addressed. Because the dirty

little secret right now, Maria, is the people we elect to to run the government they're not the ones who actually run the government

it's the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through

executive action it's going to be fixed through executive action think about the

Supreme Court's environment over the last several years they've held that many of those

regulations are unconstitutional

at a large scale, rescind those regulations, pull those regs back, and then that gives us the

industrial logic to then downsize the size of that administrative state. And the beauty of all of this

is that can be achieved just through executive action without Congress. The Washington Post reports

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