House Speaker Mike Johnson intends to cut 75 percent of all federal agencies with the help of Elon Musk’s external commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“We certainly hope” to reduce the number of federal agencies from 428 to 99, as Musk has promised, Johnson said in response to a question from Fox News host Martha McCallum in an interview Wednesday evening. “We want to be willing partners,” he added.

He indicated that he intended to cut all funding for PBS and Planned Parenthood. “I’d love to, that’s for sure,” Johnson said.

As for the mining authorities, “We have an opportunity to step in and really take back control from the administrative state,” he said.

“For a long time they have acted as judge, jury and enforcers of the rules they make for industries, small business owners and the rest,” he added. “We have the ingredients, we have the conditions now to be able to make really dramatic changes.”

Johnson said dismantling the government would be part of the “plan to be unleashed and unwound in January.”

Johnson added to X on Wednesday night: “Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch approach to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government.”

He acknowledged in the Fox interview: “We have to build consensus to have the votes to do it. “Where Congress is involved, the hard work is required to legislate and get everyone on the same page.”

However, he stressed that some of the work could be done by executive order. President-elect Donald Trump “has broad authority to do a lot of this,” he noted

Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur and former Republican Party presidential candidate who will spearhead DOGE (the name of Musk’s Bitcoin), are meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

The two billionaires were tasked with laying off federal workers and cutting government programs and federal regulations. Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is expected to chair a new House oversight subcommittee that will oversee DOGE.

Attempts to cut the federal government have faced resistance in the past as Americans grapple with cuts to programs they know and trust. Millions of Americans rely on these programs for jobs, health care, security and other needs.

Trump has appointed people to his administration who are eager to reduce the size of the federal government, such as Russ Vought, the former and next head of the Office of Management and Budget.

In one Wall Street Journal In their editorial published November 20, Ramaswamy and Musk cited a key Supreme Court case that Johnson mentioned on Fox News that they see as authorizing the draconian cuts.

“In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency “(2022), the justices ruled that agencies cannot issue regulations on important economic or political issues unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so,” they wrote.

“In Loper Bright vs. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the decision Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer rely on federal agencies’ interpretation of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Taken together, these cases suggest that a variety of current federal regulations go beyond the authority legally granted by Congress,” the duo added.