On November 15, according to Jinshi, on November 14 local time, Musk forwarded the recruitment announcement of the newly created @DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) account on his X account and wrote: "It's started." The content of the announcement reads: "We don't need people who only provide partial ideas. We need 'small government' revolutionaries with extremely high IQs (super high IQ) who are willing to work more than 80 hours a week. Please send your resume to this account in a private message. Elon and Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants." Musk also forwarded posts from other X users mentioning the announcement, and commented: "Indeed, this will be tedious work, will make many enemies, and the salary will be zero."