President-elect Donald J. Trump has announced the appointment of Elon Musk to lead the newly established Government Efficiency Department.
Despite the name, the department will not be a government agency. Trump said in a statement that Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will work from outside government to offer the White House “advice and guidance”.
They will partner with the Office of Management and Budget to “drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”
Trump said the duo “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies”.
Musk vowed on X to document all actions of the department online for “maximum transparency”.
“Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!” he said, while also promise to keep “a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars”.
The president –elect also hoped that the pair will work together to "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."
"It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time," the announcement on Tuesday evening said. "Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time," he said.