UFC star Jim Miller expressed his hope that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will help clean up the government a bit after his victory at UFC 309.
Miller, who has the most wins as a UFC fighter with 27 victories, spoke with Joe Rogan after his victory over Damon Jackson at Madison Square Garden. He called for justice for Peanut the Squirrel.
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Jim Miller reacts after defeating Damon Jackson in a UFC 309 mixed martial arts lightweight title fight on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in New York City. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
“New York, first I have one thing to say: we need justice for Peanut. He's not just a squirrel,” Miller explained. “It's all the kids that went hungry that night and all the other things that money and resources could have gone toward.
“Hopefully, DOGE will clean things up at the state level.”
The animal, which became an internet sensation, was killed after a raid earlier this month.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation confiscated Peanut and a raccoon named Fred from owner Mark Longo's home and animal sanctuary in rural Pine City, New York, near the Pennsylvania border, earlier this week.
Peanut the Squirrel, who had more than 500,000 followers on Instagram, was euthanized by New York state officials earlier this month. (peanut_the_squirrel12 via Instagram)
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The agency, which said it had received complaints that wildlife was being kept illegally, then euthanized the critters, to the horror of Longo and about 550,000 of Peanut's best friends.
The incident sparked outrage just before President-elect Donald Trump's election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
X CEO Elon Musk reacted to Miller's words on the social media platform.
The billionaire was at Madison Square Garden with the president-elect and other cabinet candidates. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were chosen to lead DOGE.
Ramaswamy described the DOGE initiative in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures.” He wants to achieve “radical change” and “as soon and as quickly as possible.”
“The failures of the executive branch need to be addressed because the dirty little secret right now is the people we elect to run the government, it's not them who actually run the government. It's the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state who were created through executive action. It will be solved through executive action,” he said.
Elon Musk speaks before former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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“Think about the Supreme Court environment. In recent years, it has held that many of those regulations are unconstitutional on a large scale. Rescind those regulations, withdraw those regulations, and that gives us the industrial logic to then reduce the size. size of that administrative state and the beauty of it all is that it can be accomplished simply through executive action without Congress. If you get some early victories, then you look at those larger portions of the federal budget that need to be addressed one by one. . one.”
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