Pete Hegseth, Elise Stefanik and Matt Gaetz understood to be among those targeted
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he would host Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Capitol Hill next Thursday to talk about ways to cut the government as part of the two men’s Department of Government Efficiency effort.
In a post on Musk’s platform, X, Johnson said Republican House and Senate members were invited to “discuss major reform ideas to achieve regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions, and cost savings—& revive the principle of limited government!” While it’s called a “department,” the new effort is not a department of the government – a president cannot unilaterally create a department.
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