Jason Furman, former Council of Economic Advisers chairman under Obama, and Doug Holtz Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss what government efficiencies can get done through executive actions,

The newly proposed Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE promises to make the U.S. government lean and effective. But champions of efficiency would do well to heed the warnings of 19th century British economist William Stanley Jevons: The more efficiently we do something, the more of it we tend to do.

It’s time for a radical, but simple, reform: implementing word limits to ensure brevity and clarity across government processes.