Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to tame the federal government. They aren’t the first.
But unlike President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton, who both largely failed attempts at taming federal spending and sprawl, their Department of Government Efficiency has a crucial advantage: Republican control of both chambers of Congress.
That political reality opens up more avenues to achieving their ambitious goal of cutting $2 trillion in spending. Budget reconciliation, a process […]
Why Elon Musk's push to cut federal waste might succeed where others failed