Former biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy is making the case that the president can order mass layoffs of federal workers and reorganize the bureaucracy — something he says he'll do if he is elected next year.

In a Wednesday speech at the America First Policy Institute, the Republican presidential candidate rolled out his first large domestic policy proposal: A plan to fire "over 75%" of federal employees "by the end of my first term."

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According to Ramaswamy, the current U.S. code provides him, if elected president in 2024, all the authority necessary to carry this out.

For him, it is a "fundamentally American vision" to "create a government that is accountable to us, not the other way around."

Speaking to a crowd, he said, "In order to actually get this job done, we're going to have to confront several myths that have been perpetuated in this town by advisers and members of the very bureaucracy we're looking to shut down."

Ramaswamy argued the president's authority over dictating rules for competitive civil service creates a dynamic between an agency and the president that is "the equivalent of working at a company — the [human resources] department does not actually determine the rules without reporting it to the CEO. It works the same way for the U.S. federal government as well."

He added that the established for-cause protections for agency employees don't apply to large-scale reductions in force because they are guided by the Office of Personnel Management.

According to him, the statutes pointed to by critics "do not apply to reductions in force — large-scale mass layoffs.

"And large-scale mass layoffs are absolutely what we will bring to the D.C. bureaucracy, both because it is necessary, and it is sanctioned by the law of the United States of America," Ramaswamy said.

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He detailed the president's authority to independently reorganize federal departments and agencies without the approval of Congress, due to provisions that remain in effect from the 1977 Reorganization Act, which itself has expired. He noted that the subsequent reorganization law in 1984, which would require congressional approval, has also expired, giving him the authority he needs.

"Do we want incremental reform or do we want revolution?" Ramaswamy asked. "I stand on the side of a revival of those 1776 ideals — a revival of that idea that yes, we the people create a government that is accountable to us, not the other way around."