On Sunday, Fareed Zakaria of CNN reportedly referred to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as “brilliant” as they were getting ready to use the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was only recently launched.
While he was speaking to his audience, Zakaria expressed his appreciation for the endeavor to reduce federal spending.
“Of Donald Trump’s recent announcements, the one that intrigues even excites me the most is the establishment of DOGE. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant and the Federal Government has clearly become too expansive and its writ too cumbersome.” Zakaria said.
He also mentioned that Musk and Ramaswamy might have the opportunity to assist the Republican Party in fulfilling a seven-decade-old commitment to reduce large government programs that came into being during the time of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Despite the fact that the host of CNN did not necessarily argue for or against two internet entrepreneurs who were targeting FDR’s legacy, he did praise them for their attempt to cut expenditure and for having the opportunity to offer conservative voters something that their elected leaders had failed to deliver since the 1950s: change.
Zakaria created a list of regulations that, according to him, could be done away with or changed in order to assist the federal government in putting an end to the loss of money.
He also mentioned that there were certain areas of the national budget that were not eligible for reductions, such as expenditure on the military and programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance.
“What is now left is about 15% of the federal budget, which includes certain veterans benefits, agricultural subsidies, spending on roads and highways, etc. To achieve the $2 trillion spending cuts that Musk has often talked about. He would need to eliminate all of the spending and all of the Pentagon spending, and then he’d still have work to do. But I do support the impulse to reform and not just because I think it will force greater scrutiny and efficiency to government, which needs it.” Zakaria said.
“The duo will also force the country, and especially the Republican Party, to confront a reality that it has danced around for decades. The moderate Republican Party was forged in opposition to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Ever since the 1930s, the party’s strongest ideologues have promised to repeal the New Deal and dismantle the architecture of the federal government that was largely constructed by FDR. But they never did.” he added.
He said that these aspects were not subject to any cuts.
After that, Zakari went on to point out that every Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower had failed to challenge the spending of the government in any serious sense, and the last chief executive to balance a federal budget was Bill Clinton.
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