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President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order Wednesday to “further reign in government waste and officially implement” the Department of Government Efficiency’s “cost efficiency initiative.”
Hoo boy--you can hear the flatulence-sounding explosions going off in Eric Swalwell's circle of Chinese Communist friends and others.
Trump's order requires each agency head to work directly with the DOGE team and find where government contracts and grants can be modified or even canned altogether. And this is to "commence immediately" with the aim to reduce federal spending or “reallocate spending to promote efficiency and advance the policies” of the Trump administration.
President Trump signed the order after holding the first cabinet meeting of his new administration, during which his senior adviser, Elon Musk, who influences DOGE’s actions, spoke at length about the department’s goals, causing Democrat hands to be wrung and tsk-tsks to be made.
“The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to address the enormous deficit,” Musk told Trump cabinet members on Wednesday. “We simply cannot sustain as a country two-trillion-dollar deficits. Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending.”
Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said that DOGE is working as “a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings to effectively find 15% reduction in fraud and waste.”
Trump’s executive order seeks to increase DOGE’s ability to drastically reduce federal spending. The order requires “Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, [to] conduct a comprehensive review of each agency’s contracting policies, procedures, and personnel.”
Per the president’s order, the DOGE team is required to provide the DOGE administrator with “a monthly informational report on contracting activities” that includes “all payment justifications provided pursuant to that process, to the extent consistent with law.”
Earlier this month, the White House clarified that Elon Musk is not the DOGE administrator. On Monday, they announced that Amy Gleason, a healthcare executive with experience in both the Trump and Biden administrations, holds the position. From 2018 to 2021, Gleason was part of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), which later transformed into DOGE.
President Trump recently issued a new directive for DOGE, building on an executive order he signed earlier this month. That order instructed federal agency heads to “coordinate and consult” with DOGE during hiring and to “limit hiring to essential positions.”
Some critics are growing worried about DOGE and Musk’s expanding influence within the Trump administration. On Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump if any cabinet members were “unhappy” with Musk’s involvement. Trump replied that some might “disagree a little bit,” but he went on to say, “For the most part, I think everyone is not only happy, but thrilled.”
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