UFC star hopes DOGE will 'clean things up at the state level,' wants justice for Peanut the Squirrel

UFC prima Jim Miller expressed anticipation that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) volition assistance cleanable up the authorities a spot aft his triumph astatine UFC 309.

Miller, who has the astir wins arsenic a UFC combatant with 27 wins, spoke to Joe Rogan aft his triumph implicit Damon Jackson astatine Madison Square Garden. He called for justness for Peanut the Squirrel.

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Jim Miller reacts aft defeating Damon Jackson successful a UFC 309 mixed martial arts lightweight rubric bout connected Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024 successful New York City. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

"New York, I got 1 happening to accidental archetypal – we request justice for Peanut. It’s not conscionable a squirrel," Miller explained. "It’s each the kids that went bare that nighttime and each the different things the wealth and resources could person been enactment to.

"Hopefully, that DOGE volition cleanable things up astatine the authorities level."

The animal, which became an net sensation, was killed aft a raid earlier this month.

The authorities Department of Environmental Conservation seized Peanut and a raccoon named Fred from proprietor Mark Longo's location and carnal sanctuary successful agrarian Pine City, New York, adjacent the Pennsylvania border, earlier this week. 

Peanut the Squirrel, who had implicit 500,000 followers connected 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, past euthanized the critters, to the fearfulness of Longo and astir 550,000 of Peanut's champion friends.

The incidental sparked outrage conscionable up of President-elect Donald Trump’s predetermination triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris.

X CEO Elon Musk reacted to Miller’s words connected the societal media platform.

The billionaire was astatine Madison Square Garden with the president-elect and different furniture nominees. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped to pb DOGE.

Ramaswamy outlined the inaugural for DOGE successful an interview connected "Sunday Morning Futures." He wants to bring "sweeping change" and "as aboriginal and arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

"The failures of the enforcement subdivision request to beryllium addressed due to the fact that the soiled small concealed close present is the radical we elite to tally the government, they're not the ones who really tally the government. It's the unelected bureaucrats successful the administrative authorities that was created done enforcement action. It's going to beryllium fixed done enforcement action," helium said.

Elon Musk speaks earlier Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine a run rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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"Think astir the Supreme Court's environment. Over the past respective years, they've held that galore of those regulations are unconstitutional astatine a ample scale. Rescind those regulations, propulsion those regs back, and past that gives america the concern logic to past downsize the size of that administrative state. And the quality of each of this is that tin beryllium achieved conscionable done enforcement enactment without Congress. Score immoderate aboriginal wins, and past you look astatine those bigger portions of the national fund that request to beryllium addressed 1 by one." 

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