Summary
Former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney dismissed the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a “PR campaign,” noting it lacks statutory authority and cannot implement changes independently.
While praising Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s goals to cut bureaucracy and waste, Mulvaney emphasized DOGE must rely on Congress or the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to enact reforms.
He highlighted Russ Vought, the incoming OMB Director, as important to the initiative’s success, despite Musk and Ramaswamy’s higher profiles.
It would be hilarious if they told Elon he has this powerful position and he goes around telling people what to do but it’s just a plot to keep him happy and distracted. People pretend to listen and then once he’s gone they just ignore what he said and do what actually needs to be done.
You know, like how SpaceX is run already.
I was gonna say, that sounds like the modus operandi at his one company that’s legitimately successful underneath the hype.
He did nearly bankrupt Tesla after he stole the company from its original founders and demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles, completely ignoring his engineers advice that the R&D would be extremely expensive and time consuming because of the safety regulations requiring the handles to still be functional after a crash.
You mean like they do with trump? 🤪