The co-chair of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Vivek Ramaswamy, appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the goals and intentions of the DOGE effort.
Ms Bartiromo continues to pull the conversation back to the need for Ramaswamy and Musk to go to the legislative branch for permission to reduce government waste. Over and over again, Ms Bartiromo frames this discussion around: DOGE must go to congress for permission.
Note to Ms. Bartiromo. DOGE is an initiative of the Executive Branch; specifically, an authorized agency with authorized officials carrying the plenary and absolute power of the Presidency. The President is the Executive. The Dept of Govt Efficiency, along with all of the other institutions and offices mentioned by Bartiromo, are subsidiaries within the Executive Branch.
This is the Executive Branch, a plenary power, reducing the size of the Executive Branch and eliminating waste within the Executive Branch. There is no part of this effort that needs permission, authorization or approval from the Legislative Branch. That entire line of thinking is structurally flawed. WATCH:
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President Trump does not have to go to congress to do something entirely within the Executive Branch.
When I watch Ms Bartiromo frame these arguments on completely fraudulent constitutional premises’, I begin to question the motives of Ms Bartiromo. There’s something else happening here with Bartiromo and her steering “congress, congress, congress” narrative. I’m not wrong.
Yeah, she doesn’t get the concept of executive action, but I look at MSM and compare the different levels of gaslighting from Fox Business, regular Fox, Newsmax, NewsNation, CNN, MSNBC. Each one is less and less credible, So I give Fox Business a cautious thumbs sideways.
Maria is a WEF grad, I have always suspected her motives.
You think that everyone that is a WEF grad is a disciple? That’s like saying there aren’t any conservatives that are from Harvard or Yale. Yes, probably a majority are left, but not all. There are plenty of converts… just look at Trump’s support this year.
You should check out Ramswamy and Soros Scholorship.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-defends-accepting-scholarship-george-soros-brother-raking-millions-income
Repeat Back Better
https://rumble.com/v3bc2ae-vivek-ramaswamy-responds-to-claims-that-he-accepted-a-soros-scholarship.html
Collectivists believe everyone should think alike.
Damn straight. She was the cutest money honey 4-5 years ago from Davos. Then she Purposely stuck her head in the sand w J6, she toes the Fox party lined that fired Lou Dobbs, she sold out.
Federal government contracts are gravy train for multinational corporates that own and
Advertise on Fox and News corp. how much federal money does News corp get? How much via patriot act? Probably it’s their biggest source of funding. Same with big tech
There are a lot of people who didn’t believe the whole election was stolen and were soft on J6. More and more are coming around. I think that she’s a supporter. Maybe even more of a closet supporter, like a lot of people are and were—though more people are showing it! Especially the young with the videos and dancing.
She is nothing more than a “never Trumper!” Another waste of my time!
No, I saw an attempt to show that it will be done with executive action. She purposely repeatedly mentioned congress to give Vivek the chance to say that executive action is how this will come down.
As this happens I hope Trump sees the opportunity to have Vivek present DOGE findings in a very public regular way. I see a series of graphic presentations by Vivek that includes questions and will be recorded and distributed to America. This could be more popular than the Apprentice. We all know how people just can’t turn their heads when they have a train wreck right in front of them!
I think we’re acting a little paranoid with her motives for asking. I too wonder how they will handle congress.
What happens when the legislature says you must spend this money? Sounds like they thought about this a bit, referencing the Supreme Court decision (which is what?)
What will they do? Is it something they don’t want to reveal yet? Do they refuse to spend it and try to embarrass congress about the spending on ridiculous items?
These are good questions to ask, and it doesn’t mean that you’re against the initiative to ask how they will handle all of the policians that are motivated to continue spending
When Andrew Jackson was president, the Supreme court made a ruling with which he disagreed. He supposedly said, “John Marshall made his ruling; let him enforce it.” I hope Trump can do “Art of the Deal” with Congress whenever he can’t circumvent them.
Yeah, her questions don’t bother me either. It’s fair to ask, and she gives time to answer. Good job.
Maria was a staunch supporter of Trump until the Trump supporters started getting laid off by Fox– Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs. Maria makes a salary of $10 million per year (according to Google), so it’s a pretty good gig. She has to repeat the party line of the younger more liberal Murdochs.
She is not even worth 1 million a year. She is an example of wasted money.
Maybe Maria decided to go the same route as Hannity.
Hannity had to decide whether he wanted to save this country or save his multi-million dollar job at Faux News. What did he decide? When Dominion sued Fox, Hannity testified in a deposition that he “did not believe” for “one second” President Trump’s voter fraud claims in the 2020 election. And then Laura Ingram called President Trump a whiner and urged him to stop talking about the 2020 election. These people sold their integrity for the big bucks at Fox.
Dobbs talked election fraud.
2006: Lou Dobbs: Democracy for Sale
Smartmatic owns US based Sequioa (Dominion Voting 2010).
I surely miss Lou Dobbs (1945-2024). He was true Patriot and a fighter who never gave in to the lying Left.
I heard Rick Rubin say on a podcast that politics and MSM should be watched the same way you’d watch a WWE match.
I’ve felt the same way. It’s all kayfabe all the way down.
Every once in awhile you get a Congressthing that breaks kayfabe and they try to destroy that person.
Love it! A little levilty always needed.
in Clinton vs City of New York, the Supreme Court ruled that the line item veto was unconstitutional. That seems like it is at odds with the more recent Supreme Court rulings on presidential powers.
Question for the group, will that decision present a roadblock to reigning in government, and will this have to be fought out in the Supreme Court? Or am I misunderstanding the application of that decision to this efficiency effort?
The other thing she neglects is that the executive can offer recommendations for legislation to the legislative branch. That is directly in the Constitution. As for what the DOGE can accomplish, it is as much as the various turds in Brandon’s executive branch. I remember when the press said Reagan couldn’t fire the striking air traffic controllers. Well, by god he did it and it stuck. Staffing and organization of the executive branch is the soul discretion of the POTUS.
Back in October, Musk stated he was on board with severance packages as a way to get rid of many Federal workers. I wonder how quickly the DOGE could achieve this idea.
Musk cleaned out most of the overhead at twitter within 2 months. There were some lingering software issues but most of the personel differences were resolved in his favor.
Musk was not firing government employees.
…nor were they unionized
Heh,heh… Trump’s turning the doge’s loose. Dogies,get it? Who let the dogs out….
Sundance, while I agree with your perspective often, this is one of the times where I don’t. I think this was an EXCELLENT interview. There are a few key points. While I agree Maria was coming back to congress, etc she never interrupted or pushed back very hard. To me that is telling. She wasn’t animated or angry with the answers. She even ended with, “I love all of this Vivek, I really do.”
this was getting the narrative that Trump wants out there. She gave softball questions and let him explain it into simple terms that everyone can understand. She asked what the simple minded people watching was thinking. Vivek explained, in detail, without being interrupted, why they CAN do it and HOW they are going to do it. If I didn’t know better, with the softball questions and the FULL narrative that it’s LEGAL and why it’s legal being explained, I would’ve thought it was a planned interview with the questions Vivek wanted to be asked and known up front.
A GATOR?
No, just a huge fan of him.
You just like her 🍈🍈
🤣
She’s on that Council of Foreign affairs thingy
Her line of questioning implies the leftist’s line of thought, which goes like this:
“Trump is dangerous; his appointees must restrain him. He needs adults in the room with him. OH, NO, his appointees are as bad as Trump! We’re all doomed!”
Now, correct her premise in that first line, then her entire interview becomes meaningless. TRUMP IS THE ADULT IN THE ROOM. FULL STOP.
It’s the anarchists and their children who are departing the Executive Branch. The Communists are invoking “Resistance 2.0”, but it’s already failed, as this interview proves. Trump is making the right appointments, this time around.
Imagine what Trump’s Cabinet would have looked like, if he’d assembled it a year ago. No Vivek. No Musk. No Kennedy. Maybe no Tulsi. Probably no Matt Gaetz. Look how much has changed in just a year, and project an acceleration of that same tangent into 2025-26. If the past year doesn’t convince you, if you don’t believe in miracles, then you’re gonna miss the next one’s, too.
Ms Bartiromo continues to pull the conversation back to the need for Ramaswamy and Musk to go to the legislative branch for permission to reduce government waste. Over and over again, Ms Bartiromo frames this discussion around: DOGE must go to congress for permission.
Note to Ms. Bartiromo. DOGE is an initiative of the Executive Branch; specifically, an authorized agency with authorized officials carrying the plenary and absolute power of the Presidency. The President is the Executive. The Dept of Govt Efficiency, along with all of the other institutions and offices mentioned by Bartiromo, are subsidiaries within the Executive Branch.
Yeay, Sundance!
People reveal themselves and I do not think Ms. Bartiromo is looking too quick on the old uptake.
Yeah you nailed the pivot point in her line of questioning.
Yes, Maria did repeat her concern about “pushback” from both the Administrative State leaders and rank and file, and the Congress. Sundance is correct in that the DOGE mission is internal to the Executive Branch.
I did not hear Maria state that Congress would be able to halt the process; I inferred her to mean “political pushback” from those whose ox (legal or corrupt) was being gored. Those affected would likely include Congress members who may have significant federal department / agency jobs in their constituent states, plus those whose $$$ grift comes from customers or contractors who provide services to the bureaucracy.
We all know she’s right: regardless of PDJT’s authority to delete departments or to downsize them, there will almost assuredly be hardcore political resistance; with lawsuits likely, and plenty of negative media coverage. I’m also betting that President Trump is well aware of this inevitability and has a strategy to mitigate the resistance.
IMHO Maria is simply being realistic. She is certainly invested in the current Financial Establishment. She put the high likelihood of resistance / obstruction on the table for Vivek to address, which he skillfully avoided addressing directly, since that would have required him to prematurely reveal tactical and strategic specifics.
Maria’s opening and closing statements / remarks implied her support for the macro level mission. So IMHO she was doing her #1 job as a on-air journalist/pundit (while being an unofficial Establishment defender) to try and pull out of Vivek some details which might then be some news-making revelations for Fox to trumpet.
I could reply to five or six or more Treeper’s on this thread. As a former FED , I’ve got a problem with the acronym “DOGE” because to me it implies MORE BUREAUCRACY. I think that DOGE is more an Advisory committee. We do not need another department in the Fed gvmint. My goddess!
Vivek and Maria can YAKKETDY yack all they want. Nothing against people earning an honest living, but the two of them have more income then four generations in my family will ever have earned honestly.
Pretty sure that Trump, Vivek, and RFK Jr. have publicly stated that DOGE is NOT a department or ANY formal organization within the Executive Branch.
They’ve all acknowledged that they are simply a temporary advisory team tasked with using their extensive business management skills to investigate and make recommendations to President Trump as to where to make cuts, reductions, organization changes etc so as to refuce waste and improve efficiency.
I also don’t understand your issue with either man’s personal wealth. It’s pretty common knowledge thst both men have earned their wealth via their skills and business acumen.
I know very few if any people who’ve never successfully run a very large business or multiple businesses yet could quickly investigate, analyze, and develop workable solutions to accomplish the mission as assigned by PDJT.
So far I’ve read a lot of comments by respected people in the private and public sector who all believe these two gentlemen are well/suited to the mission and a great choice.
Time will tell – predictions now are sheer speculation since this has never before been done or even attempted. Kudos to President Trump for his boldness.
Brain fart. Not RFK Jr.
I meant Elon Musk.
On the DOGE team.
BUREAUCRACY
Except we don’t need AI to replace these bureaucrats. We don’t want same level of government, we want to reduce the size and SCOPE of what is currently being done, as well as get rid of dead weight around our economic necks.
fwiw
Yeah that too.
I thought this comment was a signal that bureaucratic rules preventing them from being fired are not in the purview of these agencies.
I’m keeping my expectations very low with high hopes.
wrong place
I’ve noticed that the pundits keep trying to bog DOGE down with entitlement spending which is a convenient way to not focus on the corruption, fraud, and waste of other departments such as the DoD, the EPA, GSA, HHS, etc.
This is one of Sundance’s substantively most important posts. If he is correct that Musk and Ramaswamy will Constitutionally have unfettered power to act on President Trump’s behalf in performing drastic liposuction on a morbidly obese Federal Body Politic, without the inevitable interference of a Uniparty Senate and House, then great things are just over the horizon!
By my estimation, this rogue Federal Government has amassed over $100,000.00 in debt for every man, woman and child in America…a stunning degree of fiscal mismanagement that long ago crossed the Rubicon from negligence to malevolence!
The caterwauling of the elite, parasitic class under the laser scalpels of Elon and Vivak will be sweeter music to my ears than anything Bach or Ravel could ever concoct!
The curtain’s coming up…let the music begin!
Sundance is correct.
And the orchestra is warming up!
how about the Fat Lady?
Did she not sing on election night and the next day when Trump swept Congress, the popular vote, the elctoral college, all 7 swing states and turned most state governors and many state legislators red.
Love it!
Excellent post, LTB.
Thanks, COL!
“No man who has conducted himself according to his duties would have anything to fear from me, as those who have done ill would have nothing to hope, be their political principles what they might.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin S. Barton, 1801
President Trump set this up in 2017.
”March 13,2017 The President issues an
Executive Order directing OMB to propose
a comprehensive plan to reform and
organize Executive Branch department
and agencies.”
Here is result in 2018.🤷♀️💁
DOGE already has baseline to go with…
and hit the ground running 🏃🏃🏃
Announcement statement by President Trump
regarding DOGE…they will be working with
OMB. 💁
https://trumpadministration.archives.performance.gov/GovReform/Reform-and-Reorg-Plan-Final.pdf ☝️☝️☝️ Office of Management Budget
Then you have GAO.
Priority Recommendations | U.S. GAO
☝️ ☝️ ☝️☝️Government Accountability Office
“Priority recommendations are the GAO recommendations
that have not been implemented and warrant attention
from heads of key departments or agencies because
their implementation could save large amounts of money,
improve congressional or executive branch decision making
on major issues, eliminate mismanagement, fraud and abuse,
or ensure that programs comply with the law and funds are
legally spent, among other benefits “.
💥 💥 💥 U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Check out their website…..
🤣🤣Have to chuckle…All Maria B can think of is
Department of Education?
With all the information resources she has at
her disposal…💁 she is another
Teleprompter propaganda narrative spinner.
My concern/question is that
Capitol Hill gets a Lot of info
from GAO.
Those working there would get briefings
from GAO practically every day.
With evidence that just about every Federal
Agency has been politicized/weaponized..
I wonder if the same now applies to GAO.💁🤷♀️
Here is example of how closely it works….
For Congress | U.S. GAO
☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Question the motives of a WEF Young Global Leader?
Solid Rule For Trump Admin 2.0: Ignore Whatever The Media Are Mad About!
https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/13/solid-rule-for-trump-admin-2-0-ignore-whatever-the-media-are-mad-about/
No, Sundance you are not wrong, there is something else going on behind the scenes. It is just like when she became oh so sweet and supportive of one of the pharma CEOs on her show. You pointed that out as well. She is constrained by her employer, yes, and it may be more than that. Her belief system may not be fully behind the house cleaning MAGA must do. She is part of the DC power TV personalities just like Carlson was.
Some suggest:
Look behind the scenes that are behind the scenes of the spectacle. Keep going, this is an onion.
…see the US sovereign debt past the point of remedy, accelerating exponentially…
…observe the weakening US military further depleting weapons by Ukraine and Israel demand…
…note the DIE metastasis at Stage 4 terminal in all spheres now including (especially) education…
…experience the decline of US health, worsening in step with the engineered virus and shots binary system as part of “healthcare”…
…feel the high inflation resulting from intentional government actions…
…marvel at the continuing climate canard threatening the lifeblood of the US, energy…
…don’t forget the continued hollowing out of US industry ceded to other nations and the China engine…
…or the Ukraine actions adding push to the fall of the dollar hegemony and the rise of a multi-polar order…
All pointing to a convergence with Trump taking the reins of the US regime again. What do you suppose will happen? Will Trump set things aright, or will he preside over crises necessitating suspension of Constitutional rights and extreme measures including de facto debt default?
If the latter, could that actually be the Plan?
(The collectivists will comply with the collective, but the right will be more likely to comply with their guy telling them it is necessary. This points to a possible Plan by the Controllers to rotate Trump back into office, to sway the right to comply with coming extreme measures pushing us toward totalitarianism. If the vote tabulator equipment could be manipulated in 2020, it can still be manipulated in 2024. Think about it.)
‘Look behind the scenes that are behind the scenes of the spectacle. ‘
In other words: Step back from the low-level drama (political soap operas) and expand your gaze to the seismic shifts underway.
The DOGE is not going to be so much as a speed bump to slow down the elephant that will bring the room down, the debt juggernaut. DOGE appears to mainly be a psyop, creating a big stir and keeping people distracted, but without teeth to actually do what they are claiming it will do.
The solution to the debt is going to be some kind of restructuring, under the coming multi-polar global governance. Or default, due to wartime exigency. The US Controllers are apparently working toward both possibilities, in case one doesn’t pan out.
Bartiromo does still work for Fox and Paul Ryan still sits on their board. Others who refused to do Fox’s bidding were run out.
A very effective strategy Vivek mentioned is to demand that Federal Employees show up for work at the office 5 days a week. Many freeloaders are working remotely and will retire or resign. This simple trick will rid us of the least useful.
Fair winds Vivek and Elon.
This is another sensational but baseless broadcast by Vivek. Evidently aimed to gin up attention and buzz, nothing more.
The whole DOGE thing is all about this concept.
Federal employees will come into the office to keep their jobs. They are well aware of the alternative – that’s why they remain Federal employees despite all the drawbacks.
He did mention that many federal employees don’t even live within commuting distance anymore and even live in different states, so moving an agency out of Washington really doesn’t affect many workers.
She’s doing the bidding of her bosses, trying to stay in the tracks of “the way it’s always been done”….which, if that’s the way this whole thing goes, we actually go NOWHERE. So I think Vivek did a good job of nicely re-directing her. Way to go, Vivek!
You can’t be employed within the executive branch with conflicts of interests (ie, business potentially affected by policy). Sorry I don’t see how Elon can run an “agency” under the executive branch without eliminating conflicts. Requirements for executive branch employees are held to much stricter rules than congressional members re conflicts. And if he’s not an employee — then he’s not really under the auspices of executive authority.
There are valid Constitutional questions about any private sector CEO being appointed and bestowed with executive authorities. It’s a public office.
Maybe it all passes muster but as citizens we shouldn’t abdicate questioning it.
Clarifier: agree with the point that the Executive can act re the executive branch without involving Congress. Who cares about Congress’s support – Bartiroma is off point with that line of pushback.
The screaming issue to me is deputizing a billionaire with government contracts and clear conflicts of interest as the head of an executive branch “department” or “agency.” I keep assuming this will get cleared up … but I’m not seeing how. When you work in/for the Executive Branch, conflicts are taken very seriously. The whole “revolving door” to describe fat cats moving in and out of government got that name because when you’re in government, you actually have to *leave* the private sector. The Executive can hire consultants or contractors or whatever from the private sector — but it can’t hire a head of department who isn’t willing to be a public servant (give up private business positions).
Has no concept of the 3 branches of govt, totally ignorant of our system. Time for her to leave the country.
Surprised that Ms. Bartiromo is not in favor of dismantling Fed bureaucracies?
This line of thinking is desperation from established types, they just cannot believe it may actually happen.
I’ve been waiting most of my adult life for this to happen.
You don’t need Congress to end any federal activity unless it’s existence is guaranteed in the constitution.
Do you need Congress to undeclare war when the military declares victory?
With the fake funding mechanisms in place at the moment Trump has the latitude to dismantle any damn thing he sees fit.
If Congress wants to stop any dismantling it will take legislation backed up by specific funding to stop it.
MAGA needs to prepare for this 18 month battle, the DC establishment won’t go down easy.
If we prevail we will have the best celebration we could ever possibly imagine on July 4, 2026.
Bartiromo – CFR member- need I say more?
I like interviewers who give people a chance to explain or argue points that are out there in the public. Our side doesn’t get that chance very often. From what I’ve heard, this communication channel gets a lot of viewers. Is it better to leave or get kicked out, or to stay and do what you can? In this exact case, the video also gets used on X and other platforms and essentially shows how the President’s policy will be implemented.
DOGE should focus firt on where the big costs are that are ‘low hanging fruit’, and that would be in and around D.C. i.e. the beltway. No need to study any org, rather just basic organizational cost metrics, i.e. span of control and flattening, and aligning pay grades with private sector levels of compensation for comparable work and responsibility. There should be an immediate RIF of 5%, starting from the top down. This could all be accomplished in 90 days. Then outsourcing after the RIF to further downsize. Much of NASA should be moved to SpaceX. Education Dept moved to states. Etc.
President Trump does not have to go to congress to do something entirely within the Executive Branch.
President Trump does not have to go to congress to do something entirely within the Executive Branch.
President Trump does not have to go to congress to do something entirely within the Executive Branch.
President Trump does not have to go to congress to do something entirely within the Executive Branch…
We are sick to death of Congress thinking they control all the shots.
People are AWAKING, FINALLY!!!
NFL players, dancing.
Boxer stating, I’m an American Christian, I love the USA (starts USA chant), I love Trump, I love this country.
It’s turning folks, get your energy ready or re-energized. Don’t depend or wait on Fox/their pundits…they will tell you differently.
TAKE your states back.
NC has MUCH work to be done. Our 2 senators are (r’s ) and worthless. We gonna primary their AS****…
ncgop is very similiar to fed gop party; worthless and useless and work ONLY for rino’s and HELP DEFEAT ANY Conservative running in NC. Grassroots gonna change that crap. Trump won NC 3x now. Out of 100 counties, only 12 (if I recall, voted dem). Guess which ones? Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville and Wilmington-LIB HELL!! RUral counties overwhelmingly voted Trump.
WHO continues to watch FOX and be disappointed?
TURN IT OFF; you won’t be disappointed or disgusted.
Been 2Y+ not watching, listening to any fox pundit, much happier life.
Almost 95% off breitbart; for same reason. Turn on occasionally early morning walk, but random and seldom.
A girl has to earn a living somehow. I never had a paycheck with as many zeros as hers and I did some pretty dumb things to earn the ones that I got.
Let us not forget, Maria’s Fox bosses (Murdochs, POS Board member, Paul Ryan, etc.) who dislike Donald J. Trump, have drawn Bartiromo’s lines in the sand on these subjects. i.e.–banned interviews with Steven K. Bannon, Dr. Peter Navarro, Dr. John Eastman, Jr., Sidney Powell, General Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Dinesh D’Souza and any talk of the FRAUDULENT Nov.3rd, 2020 election.
Maria needs to invite her fellow Fox network employee, Constitutional Expert –Mark Levin, to AGAIN explain the US Constitution and the Executive Branch that …”permits an initiative of the Executive Branch; specifically, an authorized agency with authorized officials carrying the plenary and absolute power of the Presidency.” (Sundance)
She’s still on Fox, that says it all…
Agreed.. Maria is NOT MAGA…
Eliminating a department will require congressional authorization, if the department exists on the basis of a law passed by Congress. Additionally, there may be some civil service protections that will complicate matters.
However, if Elon and Vivek determine that they can reduce 80% of the personnel in these government agencies as musk did at Twitter, then it is entirely the prerogative of the executive branch to hand these bureaucrats their walking papers.
And nobody outside of Washington DC will ever miss them.
The SCOTUS decision deriving from Trump’s appeal of the J6 Jack Smith prosecution against him states the basis for DOGE very clearly:
The President “occupies a unique position in the constitutional scheme,” as “the only person who alone composes a branch of government,” The Framers “sought to encourage energetic, vigorous, decisive, and speedy execution of the laws by placing in the hands of a single, constitutionally indispensable, individual the ultimate authority that, in respect to the other branches, the Constitution divides among many.” (citations omitted).
Lawfare “backfired” in many ways.
When it comes to Wall Street versus Main Street Bartiromo will always come down on the side of Wall Street.
She’s married to it.
DOGE will likely be governed under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. DOGE will make recommendations, but will have no regulatory authority itself. Efficiencies through executive action is one thing; spending cuts, however, will go through Congress. Bartiromo was asking about the latter. It’s a legit question for those of us who want to reduce government spending.
Vivek did say there was a 1/2 Trillion spent by the executive branch that was not authorized by Congress. I’d like to know more about that.
Maybe she is making the point that congress is NOT needed by getting Vivek to spell it out like he did.
I don’t know what’s in Boritomo’s mind, but it stands to reason that many of the wasteful agencies were created outright by Congress or they were created by the Executive to fullfill functions mandated by legislation. Much of it was likely bought and paid for at the time the functions were created, but these things live on. Would it not be useful to bring into being a group of Congressmen and Senators incentivized to HELP the reform process? We can be sure that elements of Congress will be doing their best to thwart reform and protect waste/redundacy. The administration will need allies to push back on that. There will also be situations where moving functions into other agencies, consolidating duplicative programs will be necessary; such moves will require budget changes, etc. None of what I reference is “asking for permission” — it’s getting friendly elements of Congress to help get the job done, rather than alienating allies.
Maria is WEF.
Why should she care about Congress they have be the cause of all of this BS expansion of government and overspending!!
The BS is in DC is coming to an end with or without fox!!
Sundance, You are wrong in my opinion. Bartiromo wasn’t pushing back. She was asking Vivek how he was going to deal with the pushback. That’s the obvious question as the pushback will be epic. She never said anything resembling the need for something like congressional oversight of the housecleaning. In fact, she seemed quite receptive to Vivek’s case.