Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have big plans for a new government department aimed at making the U.S. government smaller, more efficient, and less costly. This department is called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and its goal is clear: to cut the bloated bureaucracy and save taxpayer dollars. But how do they plan to do it?

The Problem: A Giant, Inefficient Government

Musk and Ramaswamy argue that today’s government isn’t working the way the Founding Fathers intended. I...