The co-leader of President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to wipe out federal regulations and shrink the government said the operation isn’t just based on the new administration’s policy preferences.
“It’s a legal *mandate* from the U.S. Supreme Court,” entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk will lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, posted Wednesday on the social network X.
Touted by Trump as the “Manhattan Project of our time,” the new department will take aim at government bureaucracy, excess regulations and wasteful spending, the president-elect said Tuesday evening. But questions remain about how far the effort will go and what authority the department has to take on its mission.
Ramaswamy on Wednesday cited several recent Supreme Court cases that he said require the Trump administration to act.
