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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Downsize The Excess Defense Muscle And Save $500 Billion, Part 11
If Donald Trump’s “America First” focused foreign policy means anything at all, it’s that the current $1 trillion national security budget is double the…
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 10
Big Government statists have used a tried-and-true playbook for decades.
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 10
Big Government statists have used a tried-and-true playbook for decades.
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November 2024

Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone, Part 9
In the first eight installments, we slew a veritable herd of sacred cows.
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Memo to Musk & Ramaswamy: How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone, Part 8
Anyone confused or delusional about the difficulty of making even modest headway against the nation’s towering public debt—to say nothing of the worthy…
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone, Part 7
In Parts 5 and 6 we identified a second layer of nine agencies where we believe the headcount could be cut by 50% and existing missions sharply…
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 6
As we have indicated, the 70,000 headcount reductions and $11 billion of savings that would result from terminating 16 unneeded Federal agencies would…
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 5
As we have indicated, the 16 agencies slated for elimination in previous installments do comprise a kind of Litmus Test of fiscal resolve.
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Memo To Musk And Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 4
Here again are the 16 unnecessary Federal agencies that should be put on the zero-out list by DOGE.
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 3
To resume from Part 2, here again are the 16 unnecessary Federal agencies that should be put on the zero-out list by DOGE.
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 2
Under our three savings bucket scheme, “Slashing the Fat” would account for just $300 billion or 15% of DOGE’s $2 trillion per year savings target.
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion Of Fat, Muscle And Bone From The Federal Budget
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America.
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