President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE campaign is making haste to cut the waste in our federal government. Let’s hope they never stop. It’s about time! For the first time in 40 years, a Republican president with top-notch experts and intellectuals is making aggressive moves to stem to tide of financial profligacy in Washington to stop the spending, trim the fat, and cut the crap. 

However, bigger problems are lingering in the United States due to the federal debt, deficit, and destructive financial overhauls. Misuse of funds, overspending, and unconstitutional appropriations have been the norm in Washington DC for too long. But other profligate norms need to be removed, too.

The Trump Administration needs to set its sights on higher heights of federal reduction.

Let's just say that Trump does eliminate all of the waste, and DOGE restores some degree of government efficiency. The idea of making big government more efficient is kind of self-defeating, like shoveling sand at the tide. Big government can never be efficient. A large state inevitably encumbers too much debt and misuse of funds. We need to discuss getting rid of entire departments and ensuring they never return. So far, I have heard about shutting down departments and merging them with others. Are these efforts really cost-saving measures? Milton Friedman outlined extensive department reductions that should take place in Washington DC … and that was 2002! Why wait?!