When President Trump announced he would create a Department of Government Efficiency and ask Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead it, he created a potentially enormous opportunity to rethink and modernize government.
As Trump said, “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.”
Calling the new department the “Manhattan Project of our time,” the president-elect pledged to make a smaller, more effective government by July 4, 2026. He called it, “the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.”

- The Crisis of Radical District JudgesThe fight over whether unelected federal district court judges should be able to unilaterally halt an elected President of the United States’ agenda has reached a critical point.
- Overcoming the National Construction Crisis Will Be Critical to Making America’s Infrastructure Great AgainAmerica is in the middle of an enormous crisis of construction failure. The collapse of California’s proposed high-speed railroad line between San Francisco and Los Angeles is a dramatic warning that something is profoundly wrong with the American infrastructure system.
- Newt’s World Episode 838: President Trump’s First 100 DaysNewt talks with Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, about President Trump’s first one hundred days.
- President Donald J Trump at the University of Alabama CommencementI think President Trump’s ten lessons he had learned about life are so profound, I want to share what he said to the students at the University of Alabama.
- Newt’s World Episode 837: Protecting the American WorkerNewt talks with Vincent Vernuccio, president and co-founder of the Institute for the American Worker about the SALT Act.