Marc Joffe The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a promising adjunct to the second Trump administration that proposes to identify and root out billions or even trillions of dollars of federal waste, fraud, and abuse. To properly manage the problem of government inefficiency, it is best to measure it with big data on federal spending. But as those ...
Michael F. Cannon I submitted the following recommendations to the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a private-sector organization that will advise President-elect Donald Trump on how to reduce inefficiency in the federal government. The following recommendations would cut federal health spending 49 percent below baseline over the next 10 years and erase the primary federal deficit by 2027, even after increasing military ...
Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne Shortly after winning the 2024 election, President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of a parastatal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The goal of DOGE is to “pave the way … to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” Those goals don’t just require ...
Romina Boccia This morning, December 11, I’ll testify before the House Committee on the Budget at a hearing on “Sounding the Alarm: Pathways and Possible Solutions to the US Fiscal Crisis.” The Honorable David Walker (former Comptroller General of the United States), Kurt Couchman (Americans for Prosperity), and Dr. Douglas Elmendorf (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) will also testify as ...
Ian Vásquez Today, December 10, marks the one-year anniversary of Javier Milei in office. The Argentine president was elected promising a paradigm shift that would return his country to the classical liberalism that made it one of the richest countries in the world a century ago. With that ambitious goal in mind, Milei has achieved much more than most people thought possible in such ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a much higher rate of inflation than at any time during the prior few decades. Like the prices of many goods and services, the cost of housing rose rapidly, with the median home price increasing almost $100,000. (Figure 1.) Unsurprisingly, many potential homebuyers were—and ...
Tad DeHaven Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chiefs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy journeyed to Capitol Hill last week to meet with legislators. Republicans in the House and Senate have been organizing to focus on DOGE, and some Democrats have expressed interest in participating. The head of the new Senate DOGE Caucus, Iowa Republican Joni Ernst, sent Musk and Ramaswamy ...
Adam N. Michel The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new estimates on December 4 that show the effects of extending Trump’s first-term tax cuts, which expire at the end of 2025. On the surface, the congressional scorekeeper showed that the “Trump tax cuts won’t help the economy grow,” as the New York Times unhelpfully summarized. That headline cherry-picks a partial ...
Jon Hoffman After a two-week blitz by rebel forces across Syria, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has crumbled, ending nearly six decades of tyranny under the Assad family. Debates over how the United States should proceed in Syria are now front and center for US Middle East policy. The United States has limited interests at stake in Syria, namely preventing ...
Cease Government Funding of Counter-Misinformation Research and Activism: An Agenda for Policymakers
David Inserra This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. Misinformation is one of the most talked-about issues of our day. The World Economic Forum listed AI-powered misinformation and disinformation as the greatest threat currently facing the world. Academics, journalists, and politicians of various stripes decry the spread of misinformation and related terms like disinformation, misinformation, fake ...