Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to cut 75% of federal agencies, reducing them from 428 to 99, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Vivek Ramaswamy.
Johnson’s agenda includes defunding PBS, Planned Parenthood, and curbing the “administrative state” through legislation and executive orders under Donald Trump.
Critics warn such cuts would impact jobs, healthcare, and essential services.
Backed by recent Supreme Court rulings limiting agency authority, Johnson and DOGE aim to reduce federal regulations, sparking significant debate over these drastic proposals.
Don’t they want to handle your paperwork for you but are prevented from doing so by laws written, effectively, by Intuit?
Don’t they very much want to tax the rich but are unable to do so because they aren’t given funds sufficient to fight the lawyers employed by the rich?
All conditions ultimately created by… guess who. Exactly why these agencies will not be on the list of outfits eligible to be chopped, which was my point.