Trump announces Musk, Ramaswamy will lead newly-created Department of Government Efficiency
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that billionaire Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new interim agency called the Department of Government Effectiveness.
Trump said in a statement that the two men “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, cut redundant regulations, slash wasteful spending, and reorganize federal agencies — critical to the ‘Save America’ movement.” important.”
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Musk said in his own statement that the new agency “will send shockwaves throughout the system and anyone involved in government waste, and there are many!”
In his statement, Trump set a deadline for their work, saying it “will end no later than July 4, 2026.”
“A smaller, more efficient government with less bureaucracy would be the perfect gift to America on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” Trump wrote. “I believe they will succeed!”
Musk was a key part of Trump’s reelection effort, and Ramaswamy ran against Trump in the Republican primary before endorsing him.
DOGE, the department’s abbreviation, is also a dog meme that inspired Dogecoina cryptocurrency created as a joke and considered the first meme coin.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
