Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday unveiled their plans for President-elect Donald Trump’s government efficiency panel, saying they will identify thousands of regulations to eliminate that will justify “mass head-count reductions.”

In a column for The Wall Street Journal, the tech entrepreneurs picked to lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wrote that most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by “the democratically elected president or even his political appointees” but by millions of “unelected, unappointed civil servants” who view themselves as immune from firing.

“A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy,” they wrote. “DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions. The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited.”

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