Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy says all federal agencies will be “wiped out” under President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Government Department efficiency.

Ramaswamy, who co-leads DOGE with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, talked about plans for a “mass reduction” in the federal workforce and said the group would make recommendations “in real time.”

“We expect some agencies to be wiped out completely,” Ramaswamy, 39, told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “We expect major cuts in effect across bloated areas of the federal government.

“We expect major cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government,” he continued. “I think people will be surprised at how fast we can move.”

Critics like Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) argue that dismantling entire institutions would require Congress.

“Government 101: No federal agency shall be ‘deleted’ without an Act of Congress. The President cannot undo (undo) by executive order what Congress has done by law. “Congress, not the President, will have the final say on the fate of federal agencies,” he said. Torres wrote on X.

Ramaswamy has often talked about taking a sledgehammer to the administrative state during his 2024 Republican primary bid. plans to fire federal workers Social Security numbers end in an odd number.

78-year-old Trump officially announced DOGE last week and announced that it would complete its work by July 4, 2026. Despite its name, DOGE is not technically a federal department. Its name is inspired by the Dogecoin cryptocurrency and memes.

Ramaswamy argued that the November 5 election results gave Trump the authority for dramatic change.

“They didn’t vote for gradual change here this time,” he argued. “We voted for sweeping change, and voters really deserve to get it. And we’re focused on how to do that as early and quickly as possible.”

Citing the Supreme Court’s past decisions on federal overreach, Ramaswamy emphasized that this is an opportunity for downsizing.

“Rescind those regulations, roll back those regulations, and that gives us the industrial logic to reduce the size of that administrative state,” he said. “And the beauty of all this is that this can be accomplished simply by executive action, without Congress.”

DOGE is not without its skeptics.

On the campaign trail Musk suggested the government can roughly reduce $6.75 increased its trillion budget by nearly $2 trillion; this amount is an amount that exceeds all discretionary spending, including military; Approximately $1.6 trillion in fiscal year 2024.

Most government spending is considered essential and includes items such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on debt.

Critics slam Musk’s America Super PAC determination of interest payments On the national debt as an example of wasteful spending in 2023.

“Early reviews are not good. I read his 12-point government waste manifesto. And he said, look at all this money we’re paying for interest on the debt,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

“What happened? You have to pay the interest on the debt,” he continued. “There’s a syndrome where very rich people who get rich in finance or as tech entrepreneurs decide they’re heart surgeons and they’re capable of running the United States…early returns are not good.”

Musk took over Twitter, a platform he would later rename as X, in late 2022 and significantly reduced staff at the microblogging company.

Despite the naysayers, Ramaswamy was confident in his and Musk’s ability to push for deep reforms of the federal bureaucracy.

“I think the public is on our side. Most of the public understands that taxpayer money is not being spent well,” he said. “Elon and I are not in this for the credit. “But I think we will reach consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made in most of our history.”

Late last week, the national debt surpassed $36 trillion.