Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two billionaires appointed by President-elect Donald Trump to oversee the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), say they will rely on recent Supreme Court rulings to justify unilaterally cut down federal agencies and wipe away existing regulations.
In an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, the pair of MAGA businessmen pointed to two particular rulings that will prove especially helpful, in their view. In 2022, the court found that federal agencies cannot address "major questions" with broad economic or social impact without explicit congressional approval. Later that same year, the Supreme Court overturned its own precedent that had called on courts to defer to an agency's interpretation of ambiguous laws.
