If the incoming Trump administration has its way, thousands of deep-state bureaucrats who have lived off the U.S. taxpayer will have to find employment in the private sector. The cuts are poised to be so deep that entire agencies will be abolished.

The Gateway Pundit reported last Tuesday that President Trump announced Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk promised that the news "will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people."

Ramaswamy appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo to discuss DOGE's plans for slashing wasteful spending and shrinking government. Bartiromo opened by asking whether they expected to close down entire agencies, such as the Department of Education.

Ramaswamy confirmed that the Trump Administration would eliminate government agencies and make massive reductions elsewhere, including by reducing the number of federal contractors overbilling the federal government.

Ramaswamy then explained to Bartiromo how they planned to achieve such historic cuts when previous presidents had failed. The secret, he explained, was that the unelected bureaucrats who run the government (the administrative state) were created through executive action and could be fired via executive action.

Moreover, the Supreme Court has ruled that many government regulations authorized by the federal government are unconstitutional, which makes it much easier to scale down the size of the administrative state.

The Trump administration will then use the bully pulpit to pressure Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans in the next session, to deliver on other portions of the federal budget that must be addressed one by one.