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The Department of Government Efficiency has been much in the news since its creation was\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0in mid-November by\u00a0President-elect Donald Trump<\/a>. Wealthy supporters\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>, the co-chairmen of the advisory panel, are collecting ideas to right the nation\u2019s finances. Good ideas are needed. The federal government spends\u00a0$6 trillion<\/a>\u00a0annually, runs a $2 trillion deficit, and has piled up $37 trillion in debt…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Government Efficiency has been much in the news since its creation was\u00a0announced\u00a0in mid-November by\u00a0President-elect Donald Trump. Wealthy supporters\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0and\u00a0Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chairmen of the advisory panel, are collecting ideas to right the nation\u2019s finances. Good ideas are needed. The federal government spends\u00a0$6 trillion\u00a0annually, runs a $2 trillion deficit, and has piled up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}