Jeffrey Toobin Predicts Trump’s New ‘Episode’ Led by Musk and Ramaswamy Will ‘Drive Them Crazy’

President-elect Donald Trump On Tuesday, he announced the creation of a unit he called the “Office of Government Efficiency” and said it would be run by it. Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy.

It appears the “department” will not be a congressionally approved government agency but an advisory commission working within or with the White House.

“I am pleased to announce that the great Elon Musk will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), working with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy,” Trump said. expression. “Together, these two great Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure the Federal Agencies Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement.”

The acronym “DOGE” is an apparent reference to Dogecoin, a nearly worthless cryptocurrency backed by Musk.

Musk has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Trump’s bid to return to the White House. Ramaswamy ran for the Republican presidential nomination this year but refrained from criticizing the former president on the campaign trail.

While conservatives welcome the creation of the “department”, former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin He warned that the business would probably not meet his expectations.

on tuesday AC360 On CNN, Toobin stated that Trump clearly has the right to hire the advisors he wants, but offered a caveat.

“But there is a very boring and very important law called the Administrative Procedure Act that governs how the government goes about changing the way it operates,” he explained. “And it takes a lot of hoops to jump through. If you want to get away piece of a government department. “If you want to change the structure of the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you have to go through all these stages.”

Toobin later predicted that Musk and Ramaswamy would be disappointed with the effort.

“And like it or not, these two entrepreneurs are going to have to start learning and following this,” he continued. “And it’s going to drive them crazy and we’ll see how successful they really are. Many attempts have been made to make government more efficient. Al Gore I did. There was something like Additional Report I went back to the Reagan administration. “It’s a lot harder than it looks.”

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