President Trump’s outside-the-box Department of Government Efficiency hasn’t even been officially established, but it’s already off to a strong start. On Wednesday, co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy published a piece in The Wall Street Journal laying out their vision for significant changes, and later that same day we received evidence of strong public support for their effort in the form of survey results showing that large majorities of the American public support the creation of the department and also support them using one of the tools they plan to use to achieve efficiency – the termination of federal employees who fail to return to the office.
The survey was conducted two days after Election Day for Tea Party Patriots Action by pollster John McLaughlin, who also polls for President Trump. With a survey sample of 1,000 general election voters, the survey had a margin of error of /- 3.1% at the 95 percent confidence interval.
Confident that Trump would win and be in position to implement his second-term agenda, we wanted to ask two simple questions that no one, to our knowledge, had yet asked: First, is there public support for the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency, and second, does the public support a proposal to require government........