Waste

For all of my life presidents have campaigned with the promise to end waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government but not one succeeded. The news would report on the fat lady paying with her food stamps and then driving off in her Cadillac while all the time it was the bureaucracy that was the true welfare queen. All of the best laid plans in the past required the current federal employees to cut their own budgets but that was like asking congress to introduce term limits. This time things are different. Outsiders who are not yet addicted to slurping in the trough are coming in fresh and not yet bought off by the lobbyist. These people will be closely watched by Elon and Vivek who will post their findings on Elon's podcast and on X. Currently Musk has 200 million followers but this number will rise quickly when they start exposing government waste. These two people will receive no salary which is mindful of WW 2 when many to top executives worked as dollar a year men. This will be a tough battle because the bureaucracy is so entrenched and will not give up power without knock down drag out fight. The constitution calls for three branches of government, Executive, Legislative and Judicial but the forth branch called the bureaucracy has risen to equal status and needs to be trimmed. The first test will come when senators who are part of the swamp will be asked to put the people first and their reelection fund second and approve those who want to cut back on waste.