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Dismantle the Regulatory State "DOGE" can do it!

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DOGE Is Going To Defeat the Regulatory State

The Musk-Ramaswammy assignment emerges as the hottest ticket in Washington.

Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have joined together to oversee a government efficiency project. Getty Images

LAWRENCE KUDLOWDec. 5, 2024 05:39 PM ET

The hottest ticket in Washington these days is an outfit called DOGE. If you haven’t followed the story, that is the Department of Government Efficiency, run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

And it’s a non-governmental department, which is wonderful.

And the two superstars running it spent all day today on the Hill briefing members of both parties.

President Trump is totally behind it.

Most everybody seems to be in favor of the work of DOGE, even though a lot of people don’t really understand what DOGE is trying to do.

Many elected officials are saying how wonderful it is that we have a commission that will get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, reduce government costs, and cut the budget deficit.

That’s true — to some extent.

I think the real purpose of DOGE, though, is a vast undertaking to stop the unelected regulatory state that has been mis-governing America for far too long.

As Steve Forbes has pointed out, socialist-type central planning in the modern age operates through the hundreds of thousands of unelected bureaucrats who exercise their vast power over the economy through over 220 regulatory agencies.

That’s right. 220. That’s your regulatory state.

In my frequent conversations with Mr. Ramaswamy, it seems like chopping down the regulatory state and reducing the overextended government power of the executive branch is a principal DOGE goal.

I have served two presidents down through the years, but I had no idea there are over 220 of these agencies.

Of course American taxpayers don’t need all of them.

And running a thumb down multiple pages of lists of these agencies, it sure looks like many are duplicative or unnecessary.

Mr. Ramaswamy has told me several times that he intends to use Supreme Court decisions such as West Virginia v. EPA and overturning of the so-called Chevron deference, in which they criticized the regulators for doing things without any Congressional mandate.

That of course is what central planners always do.

They invent their authority to run the country — but there is no constitutional authority, no congressional authority, and no taxpayer authority. They just do it, to enhance their own power.

And they’ve been getting away with it for a very long time. Until now. Until DOGE.

Now, Messrs. Ramaswamy and Musk do intend to eliminate many of these agencies and significantly reduce the headcount of the entire federal bureaucracy.

One small item is government employees who don’t come to their offices to work. So federal buildings are empty. Why not lease them out to private-sector companies — and make some money in the process?

What’s that noise I hear? It’s a combined knee-knocking of millions of government workers, correctly worried about their jobs.

Messrs. Ramaswamy and Musk also want to look at federal procurement policies. And, yes, look for large-scale budget reductions.

They will work through Russ Vought’s Office of Management and Budget and his Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to implement the DOGE recommendations.

The budget-cutting number of $2 trillion has been floating around for a while — that may be possible over 10 years or even longer.

Really, though, the work and value of DOGE is not tied up in the Washington D.C. swamp cliche of “ending waste, fraud, and abuse.”

The higher mission is to take apart the unelected regulatory state and chop down wherever possible the alphabet agencies that have been so badly mismanaging the American economy for so many years.

A worthy cause.

From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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