The head of the new Department of Government Efficiency has been tasked with minimizing bureaucratic waste. Those who worked under Musk say his past efforts to micromanage in the private sector have yielded mixed results.
Elon Musk has big plans for his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Donald Trump takes the White House in January. Prior to the election, the Tesla CEO said he would help cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in a statement. (DOGE, which Musk will co-lead alongside former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, will actually sit outside government and will only “provide advice and guidance from outside of government,” according to Trump.)
