The DOGE Daze of Regulatory Reform
Why Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are overestimating the extent to which the administrative state can be brought to heel through Presidential fiat.
Why Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are overestimating the extent to which the administrative state can be brought to heel through Presidential fiat.
Doing nothing will lead to Medicare benefits being cut by 11 percent and Social Security Benefits being cut by 23 percent in less than a decade.
After nearly two decades and billions in federal funding, California’s high-speed rail project still isn’t up and running.
Maybe we can all agree that government officials shouldn’t target political enemies.
Ambitious budget cuts will meet political reality in Trump’s second administration.
Trump is talking about cutting government spending, but that's mostly in Congress' hands.
Trump’s immigration agenda runs headfirst into his government efficiency initiative.
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The new advisory group promises bold savings and massive spending cuts, but without any expertise in the federal budget, it’s likely to be all bark and no bite.
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Plus: Democrats' housing-lite postelection recriminations and yet another ballot box defeat for pro–rent control forces in California.
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It would take nearly $8 trillion in budget cuts merely to stabilize the national debt so it does not grow faster than the economy.
Congress and the president show no interest in cutting government. Maybe outsiders can get it done.
Ending the government’s preferential treatment of energy technologies is the best way to ensure long-term economic and environmental sustainability.
Narrowly understood, the president-elect's familiar-sounding plan to tackle "massive waste and fraud" may not give us "smaller government" in any meaningful sense.
When it comes to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, what's lacking is not ideas but the political will to act on them.
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If Musk is truly serious about fiscal discipline, he'll advise the president-elect to eschew many of the policies he promised on the campaign trail.
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