Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to “close the FBI” and replace it with something very FBI-sounding

• Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 GOP nomineesaid he wanted to shut down the FBI.

• It was a “head scratcher” for MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, who spoke to Ramaswamy on Sunday.

• Ramaswamy, a “anti-woke upBiotech millionaire has also proposed cutting other federal departments.

A relatively little-known Republican presidential candidate wants to shut down the FBI and replace it with a new office that sounds a lot like the FBI.

If you are confused 2024 GOP contestant Vivek Ramaswamy‘s suggestion, you are not alone.

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd called Ramaswamy’s plan to shut down the FBI “kind of a headache for me” during an interview with the candidate on Sunday’s Meet the Press.

“I didn’t say to disappoint the FBI. I said shut down the FBI and replace it with something new,” said Ramaswamy, a “anti-woke up” Biotech millionaire. “I think it’s a new device built from the ground up, respecting the law rather than inventing it.”

“So you’re going to replace the FBI with a new FBI?” asked Todd.

The candidate has also proposed closing the Department of Education, curtailing the Federal Reserve and sending US troops to the Mexican border The Washington Post.

“Personally, I believe that someone who runs to actually run the executive branch of government, from time to time, has a bureaucracy whose culture is so ossified that you have to flip it,” said Ramaswamy, who has done so in particular no political experience.

He added: “We need federal law enforcement, but this institution is so ossified in a bipartisan way, I think, in its own norms, in its own corruption, that we need to build it from the ground up and take on a new place.” “

Ramaswamy said that if there were term limits for him if elected (a “good thing,” he noted), there should be similar limits for “the bureaucrats who report to me.”

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