Historical Precedents for Government Reorganization
The concept of trimming the federal workforce has historical roots in the Hoover Commission of the late 1920s and Bill Clinton's 1996 efforts to reduce government size. While these initiatives often make recommendations, they face significant hurdles because Congress holds the ultimate power over the budget. The DOGE initiative is seen as the latest attempt in a century-long struggle to curb the administrative state.
herbert hoover· hoover commission· bill clinton· federal bureaucracy· doge
1:05:22 And, you know I follow his jet. You know there's a guy he got kicked off of X of course but he still has a Mastodon account and Elon is always on the plane and he's always on X so...and then he said Mar-a-Lago He's not running anything So in that regard he's just a phony Didn't invent Tesla didn't invent SpaceX Oh boy the rocket came back Go to Mars! Go to the moon! Impress me And then with this Department of Governmental Efficiency, it's going to be Vivec. The American people have voted for drastic reform of the government and our federal government is broken. It's no secret that it is a fourth branch of government, the administrative state that makes most of the rules, that creates a federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy So what do we want to do? We wanna go in and slash-and-burn that bureaucracy To help Americans stimulate the economy And restore self governance again Sean The people we elect to run the government They're not even the ones who run the government anymore Its these unelected bureaucrats
1:06:42 Republican politicians have talked about fixing this for a long time, not with a lot of progress. So I do think it's going to take a couple of outsiders. Elon and I have built a great friendship over the last year we're working together intensely and we're not gonna stop till we get the job done. Yeah yeah so yeah now i'm sure they can trim two trillion dollars that'd be good The first time I heard about the Republicans in particular And I wasn't around, but the first time I heard about this was Herbert Hoover when he became president before the economic collapse of the 30s. Yeah, I think it was called The Hoover Commission. I could be wrong about that. But he set up shop to do the exact same thing because back then in the late 20s a government was too big and needed to be trimmed
1:07:26 And then Bill Clinton came along and there's a speech that is going around from 1996 where he comes out and he says, we've got it. The government is too damn big. We gotta start trimming it down." I think the figure was at the time of their budget was just around $1 trillion now its seven This has been going on forever. It never does anything except it's just bullcrap." This was the indeed the Hoover Commission, which was the commission on organization of the executive branch of the government and also known as COABG. I think DOGE is much better than COABG
1:08:06 And Truman actually used the Reorganization Act of 1949 to implement the recommendations, so they could only make recommendations of the Hoover Commission. I'm reading from Wikipedia in case you wondered. Reorganization plans issued under that act could be nullified by a concurrent resolution enacted by both chambers of commerce So it didn't have a lot of girth to it probably, but yes I think you're right. The idea of doing this is a very tall order It'll be great they'll make some changes I'm sure let's go through some of these other By the way it will just be recommendations they have no power to do anything I'm in agreement with you Let's... I have Doge clips if you want to just get them out of the way Sure