What a surprise! Turns out the "Department of Government Efficiency" has nothing to do with government efficiency but is simply a pro-business deregulation, mass layoff and cost-cutting exercise...
It's all explained by Musk and Ramaswamy in the WSJ: https://wsj.com/opinion/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020
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It's all explained by Musk and Ramaswamy in the WSJ: https://wsj.com/opinion/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020
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But no, they don't even mention it, it's all about "cutting government down to size", in their words.
1) Identify a list of "thousands of regulations" which enforcement should be paused, and that should ultimately be rescinded
They write they'll be doing so based on the court cases West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022)...
Their logic is beautiful in its simplicity: since they're eliminating regulations, they'll need fewer people to enforce them! That's what they write: "drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions".
"...and drown it in the tub?"