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The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with two people for one role. Sounds REALLY efficient."
With a touch of sarcasm, she questioned if the arrangement was truly "efficient," saying @DOGE will do great things for the American people. Let history be the judge."
Unlike you, neither of us are being paid, so it is very efficient indeed."
In response, Elon Musk fired back I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies — Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement.”
This is how the Trump-Vance Transition put out the news, with the president-elect’s statement on X It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” a game-changer that has the potential to overhaul and transform the entire government bureaucracy and functioning
As Trump’s statement puts it A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence. I am confident they will succeed!”
As the statement concludes What a great deal!”
Musk, the richest man in the world, wrote with a laughing emoji Let that sink in.”
Following Trump’s re-election victory, Musk posted an edited photo of him carrying a sink in the Oval Office, writing on X If that's you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,
Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,
This is the first warning sign that this is going to be a failed operation,
Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution who managed the Clinton Administration’s spending-focused National Performance Review, told CBS MoneyWatch Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity,
he told employees that remained The people voted for major reform."
The account ... DOGE's biography line reads There are so many [agencies] that people have never heard of and that have overlapping areas of responsibilities,
Musk said in an interview with Tucker Carlson We don't need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting."
In a post on its newly created X account on Thursday, the new department wrote We do need an element of rewiring, we're spending too much taxpayer's money and delivering too little outcomes for society."
The Shadow Business Secretary added You are the media now" in the aftermath of the result
Musk has also hailed Trump's election victory as vindication of his $44 billion purchase of X, then called Twitter, in 2022, repeatedly telling users Putting the world's richest government contractor in charge of a project to cut government programs and regulations is the definition of a conflict of interest,
said Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics under former President Barack Obama They need to put it in one box or another and not play games with the rules,
The commission should consider that most of the time when this happens, it just moves money from the government bucket to the contractor bucket,
he said, referencing a 2011 study
