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Vivek Ramaswamy lays out plans to eliminate federal agencies including FBI
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Aug 8, 2023, 12:18:04 AM8/8/23
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CLAREMONT, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is
laying out plans to shut down a number of federal government agencies if
elected, starting with the FBI, Department of Education and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
Ramaswamy says his plan does not require rebuilding anything, but rather
reorganizing.
“In many cases, these agencies are redundant relative to functions that
are already performed elsewhere in the federal government,” Ramaswamy said
in an interview with NBC News. “When you have redundancy, that’s actually
a formula for corruption, as well as waste, fraud and abuse.”
Ramaswamy’s plan would see money used to run the FBI, for example, be
redistributed to the U.S. Secret Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency
and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Ramaswamy says the Presidential Reorganization Act of 1977 provides “an
important statutory basis” to go forward with this plan, as it allows him
to submit plans to Congress about reorganizing an executive agency.
Eliminating federal agencies has become a recurring talking point in
Republican primaries for years — most famously when then-Texas Gov. Rick
Perry said in a 2011 GOP debate that he would eliminate three agencies but
couldn’t remember one of them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/vivek-ramaswamy-
lays-plans-eliminate-federal-agencies-fbi-rcna95409
laying out plans to shut down a number of federal government agencies if
elected, starting with the FBI, Department of Education and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
Ramaswamy says his plan does not require rebuilding anything, but rather
reorganizing.
“In many cases, these agencies are redundant relative to functions that
are already performed elsewhere in the federal government,” Ramaswamy said
in an interview with NBC News. “When you have redundancy, that’s actually
a formula for corruption, as well as waste, fraud and abuse.”
Ramaswamy’s plan would see money used to run the FBI, for example, be
redistributed to the U.S. Secret Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency
and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Ramaswamy says the Presidential Reorganization Act of 1977 provides “an
important statutory basis” to go forward with this plan, as it allows him
to submit plans to Congress about reorganizing an executive agency.
Eliminating federal agencies has become a recurring talking point in
Republican primaries for years — most famously when then-Texas Gov. Rick
Perry said in a 2011 GOP debate that he would eliminate three agencies but
couldn’t remember one of them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/vivek-ramaswamy-
lays-plans-eliminate-federal-agencies-fbi-rcna95409
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