Vivek Ramaswamy wants to shut the FBI with Elon Musk. Here's what they'll need to succeed
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Source: The Telegraph
The FBI should be closed down and 1.5 million government workers sacked under Donald Trump’s new cost-cutting department.
That is the view of Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been appointed to lead it alongside the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.
Mr Ramaswamy – whose catchphrase has become “shut it down!” – said on the campaign trail that he also wants a crusade against big government at the Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
His views, expressed as a loyal surrogate for Mr Trump in the run up to the election, may be at the extreme end of what is possible at the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/13/what-is-doge-elon-musk-and-vivek-ramaswamys-two-year-fbi/
Trump and the GOP falsely claimed that the Democrats wanted to defund the federal police and Israel… yet here they are proposing to defund the federal police and Israel in their first big domestic policy announcement.
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