US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new agency called the “department of government efficiency”...
As such, the two businessmen will be responsible for implementing Mr. Trump's campaign promises to cut regulations, reduce bureaucracy and reduce spending in government agencies.
“A threat to democracy? No. It’s a threat to bureaucracy!!!” Musk, the world’s richest person and a staunch Trump supporter, wrote on his social media platform X.
“We will not act quietly,” Mr. Ramaswamy wrote in another X post tagged Mr. Elon Musk.
Mr Trump said the pair would work with him and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) until July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. The new department’s acronym is “DOGE”, which is also the name of the cryptocurrency Mr Musk backs.
According to Mr. Musk, DOGE will be completely transparent and will report all its activities on the online platform.
“All Government Efficiency activities will be posted online for maximum transparency. Any time the public thinks we’re cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, let us know,” Musk said.
He also vowed to create a "ranking board" to list the "least intelligent" spending of taxpayers' money.
DOGE is expected to provide guidance and will work with the White House and US budget agencies to “push forward large-scale structural reforms and create an entrepreneurial approach to government like never before,” according to Trump.
In late October, Mr. Musk promised to save $2,000 billion for American taxpayers if he
Trump won the election on November 5. At that time, the American billionaire said that taxpayers' money was being wasted, and DOGE would solve that problem.
"We're going to stop the government from bothering you and taking your money. When Mr. Trump proposed the creation of DOGE, he stated that it would be an independent task force tasked with conducting a comprehensive financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for the bold reforms we need," Mr. Musk pledged.
Previously, Mr. Musk warned about the US debt situation, saying that the country was at risk of bankruptcy if it did not restrain spending.
Billionaire Elon Musk has been the most prominent supporter of Trump’s campaign this year, spending more than $130 million on the super PAC America PAC, making the group a key part of President Trump’s bid to retake the White House.
In the last few weeks before the election, Mr. Musk also attracted attention when he and America PAC awarded $1 million a day to voters in battleground states.
According to Sputnik
