vivek ramaswamy said that entire agencies could get deleted. that was his word. if they wanted to close down an agency, and that money has already been allocated by congress, what would happen to that funding? talk us through that process. guest: the funding from congressional appropriation, that money, the president does not have that much discretion in revoking that. the president-elect has talked about the empowerment act, a decades old law that would give the president more flexibility in withholding funds and maybe he could use that, but the legal capacity there is murky. once congress provides the money and authorizes these things it is not really up to the president to say we are getting rid of this agency. when he was the president last time he tried this on a smaller scale with small independent agencies. congress said no, we are keeping them, and they outlasted him. host: vivek ramaswamy on fox news talking about the plans for reduced government. [video clip] >> are you expecting to close down entire agencies like president trump talked about? the depar

host: ramaswamy says that most are teleworking and are not actually working. guest: according to the most recent data, that is not true. when you telework, it doesn't mean you're not working. it just means you are not working from an office. even that is, in many cases, needing to be negotiated through labor agreements. they can try to override that through labor authorities or the court, but it will be a challenge for them to unilaterally try to put that into place. host: i want to read this quote the american federation of government empye and get your reactio make noistake, our union will t stand by and let any political leader, regardles of their political affiliation, run roughshod over the constitution during president trump's first te administration attempted toany our negotiated union contracts come downsize and relocate federal agencies at a great tion and cost the taxpayers, and replace tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants with political appointees who would blindly do his bidding. guest: a couple of points. unions in his first term, tried

and trump's cabinet nominees they are meeting with editors on capitol hill as elon musk and vivek ramaswamyout how to cut excess government spending in a bloated budget, house ways and means committee jason smith is joining me at 8:00 a.m. eastern. european markets are lower, declines across-the-board in the eurozone in asian markets finish mostly lower their fractional moves across the board, joining the conversation already long strategic wealth partner mark tepper, acting ice director jonathan fahey and republican strategist tricia mclaughlin. "mornings with maria" is live right now. hit ♪ ♪. maria: it is time for the hot topic of the hour pre-president-elect trump bullied up his cabinet with two appointments acting attorney general matt whitaker tapped as nato ambassador he'll be tasked with pressuring companies with the alliance for defense spending, trump nominating michigan gop chair pete at struct for u.s. ambassador to canada and ambassador to the netherlands during the first term after serving 18 years as a michigan congressman he shared the house intelligence for a moment vp elec

told me he and team met with comer and greene look forward to working together ramaswamy spokesperson said a key spep to greater efficiency in government composing problem to the public grateful house oversight committee created a subcommittee to focus on this work comer told me panel i am aline with president trump's priorities to cut red tape greene told me she is excited to work with president trump elon musk ramaswamy told me she plans to hold hearings but said quote no topic will be left off the table, she plans to expose people who quote needed to be fireplaced president trump says republican i -- i politicians dreamed about the objective a very long time, a vote as director of office of management and budget, in charge of developing proposed budget implementing a trump agenda across the federal government. would also have a large influence on agencies at doge wants to cut down or eliminate, we have hearing trump's pick for treasury secretary could come by the end of this week, president-elect meeting with apollo glob ceo marc rowan yesterday look being more seriously at tenness

that will be co-managed by elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. what that means. while they will not work in an official government capacity, their department intends to work with embedded employees at agencies and identify the minimum number of pleas required. cut costs by targeting international organizations and progressive groups such add planned parenthood and all federal workers to be in office five days a week writing if employees don't want to show up, american taxpayers shouldn't pay them for the covid-era privilege of staying at home. musk and ramaswamy believe they can make the government fully efficient by july 4 of 2026. hayes and molly are back with me. do we know how to pronounce this acronym? >> doge. >> doge. >> it's a meme. >> yeah. >> because my friend jonathan capehart called it dodgy. that's funny. very appropriate. give me your thoughts. you have got as we said musk and ramaswamy calling this covid-era privilege. work from home mandates that saved in the middle of the pandemic that saved perhaps millions of lives and costs mi

a new us department of government efficiency along with republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy. welcome to newsday, i'm steve lai. a us deadline for israel to improve humanitarian aid access in gaza has expired — without repercussions from washington. us ambassador to the un linda thomas—greenfield said while israel has "taken some important steps" toward addressing america's demands, their actions will continue to be monitored. last month, us secretary of state antony blinken gave israel an ultimatum of thirty days to ensure more aid trucks reached gaza daily or risk losing the supply of us weapons. as the deadline expired — the israeli army announced the opening of a new aid crossing into gaza, but un agencies still say israel has not done enough to meet the threshold. the deadline comes as israel's president isaac herzog is in washington, holding talks with presidentjoe biden. the bbcsjon donnison is following developments from jerusalem. much of gaza now looks unlivable. a month ago america once again demanded israel take steps to reduce the number of civilian casualties. t

musk and vivek ramaswamy. >> the ramaswamies spent time to figure out how to save money.suggestions from the congressional budget office on how to cut spending. the cbo warning if we do nothing, federal debt held by the public would rise to 110% of the gdp. debt that is high and rising is a percentage of gdp could raise interest payments to holders of u.s. debt. not a lot of time to get this done. the president-elect trump has given doge until july 4th, 2026, to get the cuts in place. musk says that's not going to be a problem because they will be using ai to help sort through where money is being wasted. >> tammy: oh, boy. that sounds fun. it will be a fun year for you and me. thank you. i thought immediately, kara, that stating a number like $2 trillion, it's like monopoly money. don't state a number because maybe it's $20 trillion. you heard they can get to 1.4 reversing the executive actions. what about the education department? $300 million to progressive groups. planned parenthood gets $50 million from taxpayers. when you look at details. it'sy endless how much we c

look at vivek ramaswamy.ll chop down the government like you have never seen. >> you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs. ddonald trump is ultimate disrupt ter. he created a team of avengers, tulsi gabbard and pete hegseth and vivek and ielon. american people voted in a landslide for president trump to do this, in retrospect it had to happen this way we could no longer go on with deep state corruption. larry: i have to jump out, caroline. what is national review saying? do we know about matt gaetz. >> not sure about matt gaetz so far not sure if he has been pleased with majority of cabinet picks. impressive across the board, including pete hegseth, because of his commitment of ridding military academies of wokeness. if you can restore mission of military, which is to protect and defend u.s. in academies then we are good. larry: liz peek, caroline downey and monica crowley thank you. >> on c kudlow, a weaponized law fair party, headed for unemployment we'll talk about it with gregg jarrett and cud

liz: and coming up were taking out elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and its you with higher inflation and also tonight kamala harris did ripped through and torch a huge 1.6 billion and she lost anyway the donors debate if they could've done, registering their money down a rat hole, sitting it on fire please the could've toasted marshmallows over the first checking with her friends david ashman and was coming up on the bottom line. >> with a good show coming up in rehab or just going to be talking about that story that you are talking about biden ratcheting of the war in europe, without telling the incoming nsa director michael about with meals on that it also ron will tell us he plans to do with the border to have a lot of sports and fighting and trump dancing but viral but the pushback on woke agenda is force and that is on riley gains will be here in rfk jr. has been painted as this big bad anti- boxer and well maybe, just maybe, he is onto something doctor drew pinsky will be here as well at the top of the hour, see you then. u emu♪ woah, limu! we're in a parade. everyone customize and

will ramaswamy and elon go there?cutting grandma. >> no, because that's not what that this is really about. i come from right of center republican world, right. so i was there for all. fiscal responsibility arguments from the '90s and 2000s, and for those of us who actually believed in trying to make government better and more efficient cutting out waste, fraud and abuse, everyone agreed with those things being -- they should be examined. they were examined by serious people not looking to destroy. these guys are looking to not only destroy but enrich themselves and their friends. it that's the problem. marjorie taylor greene is not a serious person and neither are the other two idiots that will have a podcast and they are asking people to submit resumes. this isn't serious stuff. and instead it will hurt people and the american people are going toind fight that once they start cutting programs they need and realize donald trump's friends are getting enriched and they are not. >> tesla has 352,000 contracts at state d

he had to share it with vivek ramaswamy. elon musk got the first shared press release of any of donald trump's appointment announcements. even the fox host who isn't even the richest person at fox got his own press release from donald trump when donald trump announced that he would nominate pete hegsef as secretary of defense. a fox weekend morning host. for secretary of defense. today was the silliest day yet in the trump personnel announcements. we will get to more of them in a moment. but first, votes are still be counted in america tonight. the pennsylvania senate race remains too close to call. when that election is decided the republicans will have 53 senators if they win in pennsylvania. to the democrats' 47. if bob casey wins the republicans will have 52 senators to the democrat's 48. late last night, arizona democrat ruben gallago defeatedt kari lake. seems the republicans are likely to control the house of representatives as of this hour. republicans have 216 seats in the house and democrats have 207 seats in the h

musk and vivek ramaswamy talked about cutting $2 trillion from the fed. right now, the government is $6.7 trillion. 2019, not long ago, our budget was 4 -- $4 trillion and people were not dying in the streets and government was functioning fine. we can have $2 trillion cut from the government but where is the will to do it beyond trump, musk, and vivek ramaswamy? one of the biggest challenges come of easiest love was tending fruit is the money the government wastes on studies that go nowhere. for example, they spent several million dollars on a study i believe out of the university of north carolina to teach monkeys how to gamble. that is a real thing. you can look that up. that is a real thing. it was an hhs study to determine, what is the risk factor that impacts people's brains that make them gambling addicts? there are photos from this, monkeys holding cards with poker chips in front of them. there is another study out there, you could look this up -- host: looking for the picture. guest: transgender monkeys. again, another hhs. this was $8 million. t

. >> molly: cochairs elon musk and vivek ramaswamy heading to their buying some major cuts. >> this meeting with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and republican lawmakers shows congress is taking the goals to cut government waste and trims spending seriously and they want to work together to get it done. >> i think having people that bring a business mindset having been a small business owner bringing that into congress looking at agencies can be a very effective strategy so having elon musk and vivek ramaswamy both individuals have started companies and grown companies we are looking forward to working with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy on working with government making it more efficient and effective. spent most people spent thanksgiving day carving a turkey but vivek ramaswamy spent the day brushing up on ways to help the government. some suggestions on how to cut spending warning if we do nothing that federal debt held by the public would rise to 110 percent of gdp at the end of 2032 reaching 185 percent by 2052 debt that is high and rising as a percentage could slow econom

>> i'm open minded about ramaswamy and musk. i think we wasted a significant amount of money in our government and i know there's a lot of criticism about how much should the federal government mimic a private business or publicly traded company. i think we need to streamline it. technology could replace a significant amount of people. we have too much bureaucracy. so i'm curious to see if their advisement to the president, working in tandem with congress, could improve some of those things. i take the point about the laws. that's going the make it a bit difficult. as it obtains to pete, harvard guy, princeton guy, 20 years military service, two tours, i think he'll be fine. i was a bit surprised about kristi noem. kaitlyn reported some disagreement there. i would have preferred with someone with intelligence background leading dhs. we'll see how she'll do in terms of being confirmed be i the senate. but everyone else, the president-elect is moving in the right direction but i'm really honing in on this government efficiency. we

primary i would hate to be battling musk and ramaswamy. thank you.ay lifting the salt is essential to trump's tax overhaul getting through the house. you will not support a tax bill if it doesn't get rid of salt. tell me why. >> correct. in a district like mine which is north of new york city we pay the highest property taxes in america. the on salt has had a very negative impact on my district in particular. 50% of household used to itemize deductions prior to the tax cuts and jobs act becoming law, it is now 19% in my district. the tax cuts and jobs act is strong and obviously helped grow the economy and create record revenue for the federal government but the on salt needs to be lifted. donald trump agreed with that during the campaign, said we need to fix the cap on salt. in 2017, republicans had a big enough majority that they could jam through a tax bill without folks like me in support. that is not the case this time around. there needs to be a good faith negotiation. if no tax bill is passed, the on salt, for those that are against lifting th

. >> some big changes to come, hhs operates with a two trillion budget which ramaswamy called bloated and will be take on by the department of government efficiency. >> alexandra, thank you. jilly. >> the country goes on. we shouldn't be dismissive of what the majority of americans believe. >> we are all re-cal greating and restrategizing. >> it's important to sit back and listen to our constituents fawned. >> democratic lawyers seen looking inward after failing to take control of the house a projected in arizona 6 district pushed republicans to 218 seats clinching the party control of both chambers of congress but the sizes of the majority playing out over coming days. maybe even a week, senior congressional correspondent chad joins us with details. >> jill, good noon, a victory in arizona pushed the g.o.p. to the magic number of 218 to win the majority, nine races uncalled. g.o.p. flipped two seats in pennsylvania those victories in the ski keystone state were key >> when you pass something in a part san way it often gets kicked out hopefully we are going to be as the leaders and th

the back ramaswamy joins us now.ith the smartest guy in the country, no doubt about it. and the richest guy. but you look at elon musk and he's a genius. if you can figure out a way to go save those astronauts that are lost in space, bless you, i could never figure that out and 500 lifetimes. so i admire that. he's talking about $2 billion in cuts by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. is that a realistic number? that's a big number. >> 2 billion is not a big number but 2 trillion is. >> sean: 2 trillion, i stand corrected. >> i want to be clear about the scale that we are thinking. we are not thinking small, we are playing big. we have a once in a generation mandate right now. the american people have voted for drastic reform of the government and our federal government is broken. it's no secret it's a fourth branch of government, makes most of the rules, rates federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy. so we want to go in and slash and burn the bureaucracy to help americans, stimulate the economy and restore

he created roles for elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. former arkansas governor and fox news host mike huckabee has been named as trump's u.s. ambassador to israel. he is a notable evangelical who actually won the iowa caucus back in 2008. we begin the hour with garrett haake. nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, senior national security correspondent courtney cubie, phil rucker, and michael meshlas. so did he drive up through the diplomatic entrance? tell us about the meeting. >> a historic meeting of course. the layers are fascinating when you think about donald trump's return to washington and how many years it has been. what it was like when he left office and what the scene was like in terms of what he had declined to do, accept the election results he lost. and when he did not attend joe biden's inauguration. there were plenty of pleasantries today on display. we know he arrived from the white house south lawn and there was not any kind of press coverage about arrival. but we know that president biden and first lady jill

he wants vivek ramaswamy and elon musk. joining the conversation is cara swisher host of the podcast on and pivot. are you surprised to hear this? >> no. it is an interesting stunt and calling it doge and that's the coin that elon musk likes and reminds me of something called the private sector survey on cost control and i don't know if you remember this in 1982 with ronald ragan instituting something later called the grace commission and the phrase he used then was drain the swamp and be bold and work like tireless bloodhounds and don't leave any stone unturned in the search to root out efficiency. this is a new idea to bring in private sector people to do this and i think it is a good thing to look for the government and figure things out but a lot of this is done in a stunt like fashion and i find it interesting that they would have two heads and not very efficient. and you can think of names of it like the department of grandstanding edge lords or something like that. it is fine and i don't know if it has any power but

—— vivek ramaswamy being appointed. had been some speculation that elon musk might bejoining donald trump today on his visit to the capital which would be a surprising development. we haven't been able to confirm that so we are waiting to see what happens, but as i said, at 11am what happens, but as i said, at ”am eastern time, donald trump president—elect will be meeting with the sitting presidentjoe biden in the oval office at the white house. he will not be travelling with his wife melania trump, she said she would not be attending this meeting so there won't be a meeting so there won't be a meeting between the first wives but we are watching closely to see donald trump hopefully de—plane in a moment. there are some key roles are still to be filled in his cabinet. one of the big roles certainly when it comes to the economy is that of the treasury secretary. that has not been felled but we have seen some of the cabinet positions when it comes to security defence, intelligence, those positions have been filled, but som

as heads of this new department, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy prosing changes in cuts to the federal government, he posted the new presidential commission goes after diversity, equity and inclusion roles, he says biden's hhs has gone wild on dei, efficient government has no place for dei gloat and elon musk suggested nongovernment organizations who receive money from the federal government may no longer be eligible. an interview with hannity last night, vivek ramaswamy said an easy way to cut excess spending would be, many are remote into the office. >> a from you want a job or show up to work five days a week. they will quit out the gate. that's a question we should ask. those are the inefficiencies, low hanging fruit, democrats and republicans can agree on. >> if you wonder how donald trump would improve and changes musk and vivek ramaswamy suggest when congress controls the purse strings, trump as far back as june propose challenging the constitutionality of a 1974 law that gave congress more control over budgets but which trump argued handcuffed the president from wasteful spendi

coming up, heading to the hills, musk and vivek ramaswamy will be meeting with gop leaders to discuss their plans for doge in the spirit of spending. not only did it rain on the macy's thanks going they pray but was interrupted by protesters. we have more on that coming up and his relapse cease-fire with hezbollah already in question just days after it started. dan hoffman on what that means for the stability of the middle east. that's next. to go further, you need to be ready for what's down the road. as energy demand continues to rise, we're harnessing breakthrough innovations to increase production in the u.s. gulf of mexico. our latest deepwater development, anchor, produces previously inaccessible oil and natural gas, allowing us to deliver the energy we all need today so everyone can follow their own road. that's energy in progress. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly real

going to be spearheaded, we are learning by elon musk and vivek ramaswamy.d on x earlier today this: he said all actions of doge will be posted online for maximum transparency. any time the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful. just let us know. he also says they are going to have some kind of a leaderboard where you can go to tell them when you think they are doing a good job. he wants a feedback loop is essentially what he is trying to create what do you work about his approach so far. >> i'm all for it. if we can find any efficiencies in the federal government and have eyes from the outside, some brilliant like elon musk and vivek ramaswamy is an effective communicator and highly energetic. these two in a team trying to lay fresh eyes on an intransigent longstanding problem even if it only benefits taxpayers by a relative pittance, it's something, right? people say oh, well, you can't really deal with the debt unless you deal with some of these huge entitlement programs. i agree with that that's what the math

and i think ramaswamy's a very good communicator, he's an articulate guy.of them together have different strengths they bring to the process. but you're right, the regulation side is outrageous. and one of the things you have to do is just not worry about who concern what friends you're make. just start the cutting the stuff out to. a lot of people's jobs depend on this bureaucracy. stuart and he's going to tread on a lot of toes from members of congress with spending cuts in their district. >> members of congress who are at least elected but also unelected members of the executive branch that sit throughout this administrative state. stuart: donald trump.com the may noted in texas border counties. brooke taylor joins us from eagle pass. what are voters telling you about their decision to vote for trump? if. >> reporter: well, you know, we wanted to speak directly to these voters or to hear what they had to say for themselves. not one person we spoke to was surprised that the border counties here flipped the because they've just been so frustrated and fed u

maybe elon musk, vivek ramaswamy, donald trump, maybe they should look at this.t went out the door in taxpayer money that went to democrats special interest and the donor class, and you know, green energy, for example. if that money got recycled back in the form of political donations to keep democrats in power. taxpayer money used for that. >> well that's exactly right and the american people don't know a lot about that and it's absolutely criminal and frankly when you've got elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, you've got two of the smartest minds out there. if anyone will get the job done they are. liz: ford o'connell great to have you on thanks so much for helping us out good to see you. >> thanks, e-mac. >> and there is no protection for me. fema sent me an e-mail with 10 sheets of paper and said this is how you are supposed to protect yourself. there's a problem with fema. liz: wow. that's a biden-harris fema supervisor that was fired. she's now speaking out. she is saying it was fema's policy to not go to homes in florida or elsewhere with political signs includ

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have been very publicly sharing areas where they think they could make spending. they're putting more than 2 million people who work for the federal government on notice. vivek ramaswamy posting on x the new presidential commission will go after diversity, equity, and inclusion roles, within the department of health and human services, saying biden's department of health and human services has gone wild on dei. he says an efficient government has no place for dei bloat. elon musk has suggested some non-government organizations that receive money from the federal government may no longer be eligible, and in an interview with hannity last night, vivek ramaswamy said another easy way to shrink the government be to force federal employees many of whom are still working remote back into the office which would lead some to quit. he says there will be some surprises too. >> we've got a long list, and a lot of this is to stay tuned for what's coming on january 20 because some of it we want it coming as a big way swinging on day one and i hope we will help unite

the ap says trump says elon musk and vivek ramaswamy will form groups on government efficiency. president donald trump said elon musk and former gop president candidate vivek ramaswamy will lead a new department of government efficiency, which is not a government agency. the acronym is a nod to musk's favorite cryptocurrency, doge coin. musk and ramaswamy will work from outside the government to offer advice and guidance and partner with the office of management and budget to drive large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach the government. he added the move would shock government systems. here is speaker mike johnson yesterday with reporters outside the capital on the election results in working with president-elect trump in january. >> we got extra ordinary candidates. we flipped blue seats to read and kept this majority. we expect the majority will be larger than last time. we have a number of races outstanding, but we are optimistic and looking forward to governing in unified government beginning in january. it is true on tuesday voters rejected what

this will be a big deal, but vivek ramaswamy has significant business exposure as well. the, nation balances out the other side with marco rubio or the other chosen candidates. tom: elon musk has the closest ties to chinese leaders so that will be a fascinating potential source of tension for the trump administration. we got an ambassador to israel and an the middle east. a new secretary state the pentagon for defense. what are the names we are seeing in terms of the team being built out? >> let's start with the ambassador to israel, this is an important one. mike huckabee was also a presidential contender, former governor of a state called arkansas in the south of the united states. not many people are familiar on the international stage. his daughter served as the press secretary for donald trump and has been very vocal in terms of a pro-israeli stance. that's a little bit of a concern from the current biden administration. the cease-fire talks in terms of rennet could completely change and it's important to keep in mind that in the last seven days or the past weekend,

. >> harris: elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are unveiling their plans for the department of governmentey have the doge cast now. a new podcast. president-elect trump tapped the two businessmen to slash wasteful spending and overregulation in the complete. the two have written an oped now. we'll reverse the executive power grab. vivek ramaswamy has more. >> we want to go in through executive action to do the failures of the executive branch that need to be addressed. we will be cutting costs, expect mass reduck se -- most of the public understands their tax dollars aren't being well spent. >> harris: the paperwork burden under president biden and kamala harris is finding it consumed 10 1/2 billion hours in 2023, the paperwork. that's nearly 15,000 human lifetimes. grady trimble. that's hard to fathom. >> in this opinion piece for the "wall street journal" musk and ramaswamy argue president trump will be able to drastically reduce government spending through executive action alone what you heard ramaswamy say there in the interview with maria bartiromo as well. they outline plans to redu

pleased to announce that the great elon musk working in conjunction with american patriot, vivek ramaswamy, will lead the department of government efficiency and together these two wonderful americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy\excess regulations and cut wasteful spending's and restructure federal agencies essential to saving the american movement in this said will become the manhattan project of our time . all of this comes at the end of the day that saw new reporting on significant potential moves by the president-elect involving top military commanders and the headline reads the executive order would create a purge for generals and up and military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military. the journal got the draft which calls for the creation of a board of retired senior military personnel and empowered to review three-star and four-star officers and recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership and according to the report as commander-in-chief he could fire any officer that will been an outside board who

vivek ramaswamy and elon musk.ning the conversation cnn contributor cara swisher , host of on and pivot. are you surprised to hear this? >> no it's an interesting stunt, calling it doge is cute, of course it is the coin that elon likes. private sector survey on cost control in 1982, reagan instituted something to later get called the grace commission. the phrase he used was drain the swamp, and people working like tireless bloodhounds don't leave any stone unturned for efficiency. so this is a new idea to bring in private-sector people, but a lot of this is done in a stunt-like fashion. i find it interesting department of government efficiency would have two heads, that's not very efficient. but that's fine. i can think of names for like the department of grandstanding edge lords , you know, it's fine. i don't know if that has any power, i think it's a good idea to always look at government spending, but this is a lot of a stunt. they will put everything online, they will show a stupid thing government pays for i g

him and vivek ramaswamy. that's a scary thought, not only because of job losses, but what it may mean for the productivity of our government. i mean, twitter is struggling to stay afloat in a lot of ways. without all those workers, you'd hate to see the federal government do the same thing. let's see how it all unfolds. this will be really interesting. thank you scott. coming up here, california leaders say their solution to 911 dispatch problems will save lives. but our investigative unit found out it's filled with problems. we investigate a lot of misrouted calls, outages, and in some cases, delays in life saving help. you're wahing nbctc we are grocery outlet and we are your bargain bliss market what is bargain bliss? prices are too high, but grocery outlet has the name brands you love for way way less. that's bargain bliss. this thanksgiving budgets are stretched tight, so we are giving you a little extra help this season. $3.99 for a jennie-o 14 to 16 lb. turkey. when you spend $35. head to your neighbor

liz: that's vivek ramaswamy on the department of government efficiency, doge. we've got to deal with a new democratic tack line, senator elelizabeth warren is attacking it. let's welcome steve moore . always wonderful to see you again, steve. first this. how much can trump do with doge with executive actions, because we've got senator elizabeth warren falsely claiming they want to cut social security benefits. they don't. i mean, you know, you know what i mean? we're talking 2.7, 3.7 trillion in green crony capitalism, government over payments since 2003. what can trump do with executive actions? >> well by the way, when they start using this phony argument that trump wants to cut social security benefits, it's actually, we want to cut all of this waste in an efficiency so we don't have to cut social security benefits so we don't fall off a cliff and look, you mentioned earlier, this idea of getting, this was in the clip you played by vivek ramaswamy saying we've got to get the public behind us. well the public is behind them, you know, the public, everyone kno

along with fellow entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy, it was one of mr trump two rivals for the republicantion. elon musk will oversee the department of government efficiency, that is a body that is being set up to limit red tape to dismantle bureaucracy and induct a more entrepreneurial spirit into the federal government. government spending in this country is put at around $6.5 trillion a year and elon musk is already on record as saying that he believes he can save about a third of that. earlier mr trump announced the nomination of the former army veteran and fox news commentator pete hick seth as defence secretary. he has been openly critical of former leaders of the pentagon and is expected to make good on donald trump two campaign pledge to rid the us military of what some on the right sea at progressive policies that have affected diversity within the ranks. meanwhile, a long—time hard line on immigration policy the south dakota governor kristi noem has been nominated for the role of homeland security secretary. she is a long—time hardliner on immigration policy and one of donald tr

elon musk, vivek ramaswamy moving fast to cut government waste.atch for the new false narrative from democrats and they're trying to claim they want to cut social security. no, they don't. they're not going to do that. they want to stop things like $2.7 trillion in wasted overpayments over the last generation sent down trust worthy social security, medicare and medicaid to literally dead people and feeds. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. reporter: good evening, liz. cost cut asking not glamorous and meticulous and monotonous work and hosting weekly live streams to update people on their progress. the department of government official seizure disorders known as doge, heard from thousands that want to jump into that. going to be fire department. >> elon musk going to have plans and deportation going to have federal bureaucrats and going for bc going it save this country. going to know elon musk yet and doesn't bring a chisel, he bring as chain saw. reporter: the u.s. is $36 trillion in debt and counting and the responsible budget is cheerin

speaker johnson says musk and ramaswamy will speak with house and senate republicans about their major reform ideas and here's a live look at chicago for you, one of many spots that you will see here on cnn tomorrow morning for what we hope will soon will quickly become a holiday tradition. thanksgiving in america. we'll be highlighting the parade there in the windy city, as well as a number of other spots across the country throughout the morning, including this one. here's a live look at new york city. you see minnie mouse there added to the parade this year. i believe that's ronald mcdonald right behind her. the balloons currently being inflated there on the upper west side of manhattan. that is a beautiful tradition every year, which kicks off of course, ahead of the parade tomorrow morning, you'll see we will also have live coverage in houston, chicago, detroit and philadelphia. join us at 8 a.m. tomorrow. the news continues in the situation room happening now. >> some residents are returning to their homes in lebanon as the cease fire between israel and hezbollah appears to be ho

vivek ramaswamy saying biden's hhs has gone wild on dei.r they i bloat, and elon musk has suggested nongovernment organizations that receive money from the federal government made no longer be eligible. in an interview with sean hannity he outlined that, he wants to force government employees are still working remote back into the office. >> if you tell people eat to affirm and show up to work 5 days a week, how many are going to quit at the gate? those are the kinds of inefficiencies, democrats and republicans, black or white americans can agree on. >> doge has its own x account if you want to follow the goings-on, musk says all the actions it takes will be posted for full transparency in the public would be able to way in. the platform he owns this morning, causes inflation and they are going to get it under control. stuart: we will see. i want to know how many administration pics are millennials, younger than me. how many? >> half a dozen. the president surrounding himself with advisors the age of his kids. he speaks to them. vivek ramas

that was the prediction of vivek ramaswamy.stalled elon musk and ramaswamy into outside the government consultancy roles to oversee the department of government efficiency to provide what there would be recommendations to downsize the workforce for departments and agencies. now, both of them are making the case that much of this can be done unilaterally by forcing the hand of federal workers to comply with the regulations and decisions by the trump administration and that there will be a natural purging of the federal workforce. but also much of this would come down to the reclassification of part of the federal workforce from civil workers, career workers, into political appointees that could be one way donald trump could sign that executive order to do just that, that would be another way to potentially eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. but then there is also the potential of congressional authorization to enact and give the president-elect trump the authority to consolidate some departments and agencies and downsize the w

look at elon musk and vivek ramaswamy.nt # like you've never seen. >> you cannot break an omelet net without breaking breaking eggs. he's created a team of avengers and incredible disrupters and tulsi gabbard and pete hegseth and vivek and elon doing their thing to cut government. they're mandating president trump and retrospect had to happen this and going to no longer go on with deep state. larry: caroline, what's the national review going to say? do we know yet about matt gaetz? i don't know about matt gaits and going to be pleased with the majority of the it his credentials and commitment to reading the military commie academies of wokeness and if you can protect and defend, then we're good. larry: thanks to all three of you. coming up on kudlow, it's a weaponnized lawfare retirement party. oh, it's for special council jack smith? fani willis and alvin bragg. all together heading for unemployment. we'll talk about it with fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett when kudlow returns. municipal bonds don't usually get the me

my favorite thing is that musk and ramaswamy are interested in targeting unelected bureaucrats.are? >> i appreciate the spirit with which they are coming at it. a lot of the people will say the government is too big with too many regulations and we should take a look at that. but bringing in this 25-year-old fresh on the hill legislative assistant who is just thinking about the things for the first time. it is not like there are people not trying to figure out regulatory reform and how to figure out how to save money in the federal budget. they say they are going to root off waste, fraud and abuse. >> most people would say rock on, do that. take the corporate raider approach to this. come on now. >> like the federal government, they enforce waste and fraudulent acts all of the time. if they find more, that is great. they have the grand pronouncements they are finding $2 trillion. they are not taking it seriously in that way. if you want to balance the budget you need to look at medicare, medicaid, social security, department of defense. that is where the money is. >> they won't

>>> now washington, president- elect trump chooses elon musk and former rival turned ally vivek ramaswamy to lead a new agency focused on government agency. >>> also brit coin just briefly toughs new market milestone of $90,000 and got some detate this morning over that rally's staying power and wait means for competing assets like gold and silver. >>> plus, when the trump trade fundamentals and investors readying for the latest read on u.s. consumers prices and later a big day for the big money movers including activists pushing one industrial bellwether to fresh all time hies. it's wednesday, november 13th, 2024, you are watching "worldwide exchange" right here on cnbc. >>> and good morning and thank you so much for being here with us, i'm frank holland and get you ready for the trading day ahead and start with a look at u.s. stock futures with the nasdaq and the s&p both of them breaking a five day win streak and take a look. right across the board we're looking at the futures market and actually it was just a second ago. very quickly down fractionally and dow would open about 40 point

vivek ramaswamy on tutoring and dollars of government cuts the ei spending and trimming the workforce could be first on the chopping block as new data shows trump is set to inherit the largest budget deficit in history, dreaming out americans for tax reform president grover norquist, great to have you think of her being here. they say they will live stream weekly updates for everyone to see in terms of what their cutting. what you make of the new department the department of government efficiency. >> i think transparency is extremely helpful, peter gray stated effort that lasted until 1984 but he did all the study and handed it out in the big book. if he released what he found week after week it would've built more support for in the country and people would've realized what the opportunities are. i love the idea of the transparency. maria: president-elect trump has been talking about his economic plans and he wants to extend the tax cuts and have no tax on tips or social security and no tax on overtime. how will you pay for this. do you buy into the idea as president trump has told m

larry: vivek ramaswamy joining us now. welcome.s to some -- i agree. it is about national character. isn't national confidence related to nai national character. >> you are right simple verse of this election the economy and border and national security staying out of worl world war iii, i got this question, at colleges, i spent a lot of time on ground with young people in pennsylvania, i felt i owed them a deeper answer, it is about reviving confidence in america, confidence in ourselves, once woe get this self confidence back that is a good input for the economy that gives us spine to enforce the rule of law and seal the border, in deeper sense that is what this election is about. who'll restore the confidence as americans, that is donald trump hands down, that is why i'm supporting him. and all of other policies in some ways downstream of, that i found that answer is bringing more young people along gen-z coming in our direction. and i think a lot of time in pennsylvania hopefully will payoff. larry: you need a positive message.

earlier this week, vivek ramaswamy was talking about this effort. i want to get your response. [video clip] >> here is the dirty little secret in the federal bureaucracy today. most people do not even show up to work. if you require most of those federal bureaucrats to come to work five days a week, a lot of them will not want to do that. these are examples. it is a great point you just brought up. sweeping changes we are able to make quickly. >> you could move agriculture somewhere else. is that what you are thinking? >> absolutely. even bigger picture, many agencies should be downsized wherever they are and for whatever does remain, move them out so they are more accountable to the people. if you have many voluntary reductions of the size of the workforce along the way, that is a good side effect of the policies. our goal is not to be cruel to the individual employees. most of them are individually good people and we want to be compassionate and generous and how we handle the transition. but the real issue is there are too many. we should not have 4 million civil servants who

>>p pe trump speaking at mar lag ooh last night praising vivek ramaswamy, musk and ramaswamy headingtment of government efficiency using x to hire, looking for superhigh iq small government revolutionries work willing to work 80 plus hours a week unglamorous cost-cutting. >> zero compensation joining me joe lonsdale great to see you. thank you so much for being here, how do you like that that post from elon? not such a great sales pitch work 80 hours no pay. >> sounds like he wants to tell people that built greatest companies in silicon valley, jump in i am friends helpfuling out on side got hundreds perfect notes how can i help this is an exciting time in our history we love it. we love it. maria: a i love that. >> america should be going to our economy should grow twice the rate it is like, so many of us, for years for decades have seen this bureaucracy, fourth bran of of government permanently in charge of our country wishes sworn could do something about it a huge opportunity. maria: thank you, as a businessperson and investor, for pitching in here, it is great to see elon musk,

and donald trump, they tapped vivek ramaswamy and donald trump on the case.ry regulation that on the books. and in other is an executive order, on schedule after that donald trump enacted at the end of his first term but didn't have time to put into place. that allows the government to reclassify career bureaucrats as political appointees which mean it is easy to replace them with people who are more efficient in carrying out their duties, tools to work with to restructure. >> the regulatory affairs section of the budget office and the white house has a lot of powered reviews, that's how we implement these things. what do you make of that? is that the right way to go? >> it means it doesn't have the power to affect this itself so the extent that this will succeed in the end will come down entirely to whatever agency donald trump is tasked with being the recipient of our proposed changes and imposing government and whether cabinet heads in these agencies take those roles and work on them with gusto. a lot of it will come down to donald trump's commitment to ma