A lesson for DOGE from Iowa's Herbert Hoover

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Associated with this was the power of special interest or "pressure groups" that lobbied Congress usually to protect and enlarge government activity.
55% : Musk and Ramaswamy will codirect the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will have the objective of reducing the size and scope of the federal government.
47% : "Ramaswamy and Musk argue that they can accomplish many of their objectives without the approval of Congress based on precedents established by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA and Loper Bright.
43% : What DOGE should learn from Hoover is that eliminating waste and reducing the administrative state are noble policy goals, but even more important is the restoration of constitutional principles back to government.
37% : During the administrations of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hoover was selected to chair what became the two bipartisan Hoover Commissions, which were tasked with reorganizing the executive branch and reducing waste in government to bring about more efficiency and economy.

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