Having businessmen and outsiders like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the helm of the new Department of Government Efficiency can remake U.S. governance, the latter said Sunday.
"We expect mass reductions," Ramaswamy said in a televised interview, Mediaite reported. "We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.
"We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts of all federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.
"So, yes, we expect all of the above," he said.
Conservatives for decades have hoped to root out government's waste, fraud, and abuse. Now President-elect Donald Trump vows to "drain the swamp," with Ramaswamy and Musk tasked to carry out the mandate of the resounding Nov. 5 victory.
"Over the last 40 years — even conservatives — we've talked a big game for 40 years about cutting the federal government, about reducing the scope of the federal government," Ramaswamy said. "Politicians haven't been able to do it.
"And so Elon and I, we're not politicians. We're businessmen.
"We're coming at it from the outside. Sometimes, if you go inside, you become native to the system," he said.