I know firsthand the patriotic passion behind Vivek Ramaswamy’s mission to blow up the bloated bureaucracy and return power back to the American people.
Prior to joining the South Shore Press, it was a privilege and honor to work as Mr. Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign spokesman and Deputy Communications Director.
An issue near and dear to his heart was reforming the federal government, the structure of it, and how your tax dollars are spent within it.
President Trump has tapped Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to co-chair DOGE, “Department of Government Efficiency.”
Keep in mind, Musk is the mastermind behind cutting about 80% of the Twitter (now “X”) workforce and the social media site, and it still remains in the Top 10 of visited websites around the world, with almost one billion unique visitors per month.
Let me forewarn the deep state and swamp creature bureaucrats who have been humming along on a taxpayer funded gravy train with practically zero accountability: your days are numbered.
Vivekk started laying the groundwork for bulldozing the bureaucracy within and around Washington DC in September of 2023. We were in the middle of a hotly contested race for the GOP nomination for the White House, and Ramaswamy was set to deliver a major policy speech at the America First Policy Institute.
Here is where Vivek would lay out his incredible vision to rightsize the federal government, while providing families important services that they need and that struggling taxpayers can afford.
The most interesting part of his strategy is that Ramaswamy did what most Presidents or their staffs never bothered to do: he read the entire United States Code, the 54 titles and five appendices that constitute the laws governing the United States government.
What Vivek found in the “fine print” is that the President of the United States can enact mass layoffs, 75% of the entire federal workforce, via Executive Order without approval from lawmakers. Yes, individual federal employees might be protected by lawsuits or union regulations, but not immune from mass, blanket layoffs.
Ramaswamy’s plan was focused on shutting down or drastically cutting federal agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Education, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, and the clawback of Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
These specific plans to gut the bureaucracy were mapped out well over one year ago, and will most definitely be fine tuned right now with both Vivek and Musk on board.
For too long Commanders in Chief and those running for the highest office in the land paid lip service to reducing big government spending and draining the swamp.
Donald J. Trump has a laser-like focus on being the first President to actually dismantle the deep state.
Ramaswamy spoke of his desire to do exactly that when he ran for President. I was in his “Green Room” at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the first Republican Primary Presidential debate when Vivek posed a question and made a bold statement at the same time about saving our Constitutional Republic.
“Do you want incremental reform, which is what we’re hearing a lot of tonight, or do you want revolution?” asked Ramaswamy.
Buckle up America. As of January 20th, 2025, you’re in for a slashing of the federal budget and bureaucracy with a chainsaw, not a scalpel as in years past. Two titans of business will be guiding where the bureaucratic bloodbath begins.
Only then will we experience in America a government that is “by the people, for the people”