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• Trump’s ‘DOGE’ commission promises mass federal layoffs, ending telework - November 19, 2024

• The incoming administration will handle large-scale RIFs with compassion, Vivek Ramaswamy says.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  President-elect Trump’s forthcoming government efficiency commission is hoping to institute large-scale layoffs of federal employees and force civil servants to work in their offices five days per week, according to one of the business executives Trump has tapped to lead it.

  The Department of Government Efficiency—a non-government panel that Trump has vowed to stand up—will be able to move swiftly to implement the changes without congressional approval, Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News on Sunday, saying the president-elect can act through executive action. The entrepreneur and former presidential candidate added that recent Supreme Court precedent and its conservative makeup would provide legal backing to the ideas he and his co-lead, Elon Musk, will put forward.

  “We expect mass reductions,” Ramaswamy said. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions-in-force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.”

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