Our coun­try needs a turn­around sto­ry to save itself. Elon, Vivek and DOGE can restore our san­i­ty

As reck­less spend­ing has become the norm, gov­ern­ment has grown out of con­trol and our nation­al debt has sky­rock­et­ed to more than $36 tril­lion, it’s clear that Wash­ing­ton has all but giv­en up on fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream. We need dra­mat­ic change in Wash­ing­ton to bring Amer­i­ca back to the path of fis­cal san­i­ty, and Pres­i­dent Trump’s deci­sion to name Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy shows there are still patri­ots devot­ed to pro­tect­ing the Amer­i­can Dream by reign­ing in big gov­ern­ment. 

The work of the Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy (DOGE) will be crit­i­cal to turn­ing our coun­try around, Mak­ing Amer­i­ca Great Again and res­cu­ing the Amer­i­can peo­ple from our big gov­ern­ment, infla­tion and debt night­mares. That’s why I recent­ly joined Iowa Repub­li­can Sen. Joni Ernst as a found­ing mem­ber of the Sen­ate DOGE Cau­cus.  I will be work­ing to make sure Con­gress pro­vides the Trump admin­is­tra­tion max­i­mum flex­i­bil­i­ty to fix the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and advance DOGE’s work to ensure its suc­cess.

I am 100% com­mit­ted to DOGE’s mis­sion because my entire life has been a turn­around sto­ry. 

ELON MUSK AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY AGREE ON ‘NEED TO SCRUTINIZE’ US FUNDING FOR NGOS

As a kid born to a sin­gle mom who grew up in pub­lic hous­ing, I’ve always been in a fight to defy the odds. My mom always told me grow­ing up that because I was born in Amer­i­ca, I could do and be any­thing if I was will­ing to work hard. That’s the men­tal­i­ty I took in my busi­ness life turn­ing around fail­ing com­pa­nies to cre­ate jobs. 

Then, in 2010 when I saw Florida’s econ­o­my in freefall with our state grow­ing its debt, los­ing jobs and shrink­ing in pop­u­la­tion as fam­i­lies moved away from the Sun­shine State, I ran for gov­er­nor on a mis­sion to turn Flori­da around. Our work to slash bur­den­some reg­u­la­tions, cut tax­es and work for Flori­da fam­i­lies led to a boom­ing econ­o­my, a 47-year low in crime, bet­ter K‑12 schools, the #1 high­er edu­ca­tion sys­tem in the nation, and the cre­ation of 1.7 mil­lion new pri­vate-sec­tor jobs.

ELON AND VIVEK SHOULD TACKLE US FUNDING FOR THIS BOONDOOGLE ORGANIZATION AND SCORE A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR WIN

Like Flori­da did in 2010, Amer­i­ca now finds itself at a moment where dra­mat­ic change is need­ed to save itself. These fig­ures high­light just how dire our finan­cial sit­u­a­tion tru­ly is. Since 2019, the U.S. pop­u­la­tion has grown just 2%, but fed­er­al spend­ing has sky­rock­et­ed by 52% and the fed­er­al work­force has grown by more than 140,000 employ­ees, an increase of over sev­en per­cent. 

Since Pres­i­dent Biden took office, improp­er pay­ments by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment have totaled $764 bil­lion. The U.S. nation­al debt has grown by near­ly $8 tril­lion under the Biden admin­is­tra­tion and the inter­est expense on that debt now con­sumes more than $1 tril­lion annu­al­ly – cost­ing near­ly $6,500 per Amer­i­can tax­pay­er.

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As a busi­ness guy, I know that if you don’t run a com­pa­ny that con­stant­ly improves, inno­vates and becomes more effi­cient, you die. That’s what we are see­ing in the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment right now. Washington’s fail­ure to live with­in its means which has forced infla­tion, high inter­est rates, and few­er jobs on Amer­i­can fam­i­lies. DOGE has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to fix this mess with a sea-change men­tal­i­ty that scales back big gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion, slash­es bureau­cra­cy, cuts tax­es, improves pub­lic safe­ty and edu­ca­tion, and grows our pri­vate sec­tor to cre­ate good-pay­ing Amer­i­can jobs so every fam­i­ly can live their dreams. 

Elon and Vivek have had mas­sive suc­cess in busi­ness because they know how to run effi­cient orga­ni­za­tions and man­age pro­duc­tive teams. The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment needs a hell of a lot more of that type of lead­er­ship. Fail­ing to force account­abil­i­ty with­in our fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is a seri­ous threat to our nation­al secu­ri­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream. Elon and Vivek under­stand this well and Pres­i­dent Trump’s deci­sion to put them at the helm of DOGE should give Amer­i­cans con­fi­dence that DOGE is a seri­ous effort led by seri­ous peo­ple that are hell-bent on turn­ing the coun­try around.

Since being elect­ed to the U.S. Sen­ate in 2018, I’ve been fight­ing to fix the prob­lems and I’m so glad DOGE is now being cre­at­ed to help tack­le these issues. 

I’ve been fight­ing to pass bills like the REINS Act, my Let’s Get to Work Act to reestab­lish work require­ments for peo­ple receiv­ing gov­ern­ment ben­e­fits, and my Make Wash­ing­ton Work agen­da. But there are many in Wash­ing­ton that reject the change we need. The Wash­ing­ton estab­lish­ment wants to pro­tect that sta­tus quo that’s allowed them to line their pock­ets and inflate their pow­er by grow­ing gov­ern­ment. For these insid­ers, the hard­ship that reck­less spend­ing and mas­sive debt cause for Amer­i­can fam­i­lies is sim­ply an accept­able con­se­quence of a bro­ken sys­tem which now only ben­e­fits them.

In Novem­ber, the Amer­i­can peo­ple made clear with their votes that they have had enough with the bro­ken sta­tus quo. Pres­i­dent Trump was elect­ed with a man­date to reform Wash­ing­ton and the work of DOGE, with Elon and Vivek comb­ing through and elim­i­nat­ing the reck­less spend­ing, waste and fraud in our fed­er­al gov­ern­ment will be invalu­able to advanc­ing his agen­da of gov­ern­ment effi­cien­cy so we can Make Amer­i­ca Great Again, save the Amer­i­can Dream and final­ly Make Wash­ing­ton Work for hard­work­ing fam­i­lies across the coun­try.