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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-hopeful-ramaswamy-joins-205201574.html   
      
   By James Oliphant   
      
   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vivek Ramaswamy joined a growing chorus of 2024   
   Republican presidential candidates vowing to radically reduce the size and   
   function of the U.S. government if elected next year, calling on Wednesday   
   for a “revolution” that will hold the federal bureaucracy “accountable.”   
      
   Former President Donald Trump and his top rival, Florida Governor Ron   
   DeSantis, have also pledged to fire hundreds of thousands of federal   
   workers and to dismantle or overhaul several departments and agencies,   
   including the FBI and the Department of Education.   
      
   Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is new to politics, outlined his   
   plan on Wednesday at a Washington think tank that supports Trump’s   
   “America First” agenda.   
      
   “Do we want incremental reform? No,” Ramaswamy said. “Or do we want a   
   revolution?”   
      
   Ramaswamy, 38, distantly trails Trump in national polls but has seen his   
   profile spike since sparring with other contenders at the first   
   presidential debate last month. He is running as an unapologetic champion   
   of Trump’s policies and has consistently defended the former president on   
   the stump.   
      
   Ramaswamy shares the same mistrust of the “deep state,” a term popularized   
   by Trump that contends, without evidence, that a network of unelected   
   federal bureaucrats works clandestinely to thwart conservative policy   
   objectives.   
      
   Ramaswamy said his plan would ultimately slash the federal workforce by   
   75%, resulting in more than 1.6 million layoffs, a target more dramatic   
   than Trump or DeSantis have proposed.   
      
   He would also eliminate the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms   
   and Explosives, the Department of Education and the Nuclear Regulatory   
   Commission, which oversees commercial nuclear power plants, among other   
   agencies.   
      
   “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you, and you can’t fire them,   
   that means they don’t work for you,” he said.   
      
   The vast majority of the 2.2 million government workers are classified as   
   permanent and non-political civil service. A small fraction, around 4,000   
   workers, are political appointees chosen by the governing administration.   
      
   Ramaswamy said the U.S. Constitution gives the president almost unlimited   
   authority over the executive branch, but experts disagree.   
      
   “It could not be done without Congress repealing the laws that empower   
   these agencies and functions,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow in   
   governance studies at the Brookings Institution.   
      
   Democrats currently control the U.S. Senate, but that chamber will be up   
   for grabs in the 2024 general election, when Americans will also elect a   
   president. Ramaswamy and others are campaigning to win their party's   
   nomination to face off against Democratic President Joe Biden next   
   November.   
      
   Ramaswamy did not address the economic impact that would result from more   
   than 1 million workers losing their jobs.   
      
   A study released last week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office   
   found that a five-week government shutdown in 2018-2019 saw nearly a   
   million federal workers furloughed and reduced U.S. economic output by $3   
   billion.   
      
   Trump has pledged to issue an executive order upon taking office that   
   would let him fire “rogue” bureaucrats in protected civil-service   
   positions deemed disloyal to the White House.   
      
   Allies of both Trump and DeSantis have been involved in "Project 2025," a   
   joint effort by dozens of conservative think tanks to compile lists of   
   thousands of conservatives who could take positions across federal   
   agencies and departments should a Republican president be elected.   
      
   Trump, who faces federal and state charges relating to his efforts to   
   overturn the 2020 presidential election, has called on Republicans in   
   Congress to defund the FBI and the Department of Justice claiming that   
   they have been “weaponized” against him.   
      
   DeSantis, too, has spoken of the need to reform those agencies. He has   
   promised to fire the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, if elected.   
      
   (Reporting by James Oliphant; Editing by Ross Colvin and Daniel Wallis)   
      
      
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