The US President-elect Donald Trump has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk and Indina-origin Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) together.
Tesla chief Elon Musk and Millionaire entrepreneur-turned-politician Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announces pic.twitter.com/lAjS028eGn
— ANI (@ANI) November 13, 2024
Musk and Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.
DOGE is not a US government agency. In his Tuesday night announcement, Trump said the Department “will provide advice and guidance from outside the government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”
After the announcement, Elon Musk posted on X, “All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.”
All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.
Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!
We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb… https://t.co/1c0bAlxmY0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024
Later, Musk added a fun post that featured an animation of a dog.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024
