DOGE could be a mechanism for a Musk shadow presidency, a nonsense job designed to keep Musk busy without giving him real power, or a curious mix of the two. In any case, Musk and Ramaswamy have proposed cutting “thousands” of federal regulations and determining the “minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions.

President-elect Donald Trump has officially announced that fellow billionaire Elon Musk will head a new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE") under his administration. Musk may not be eligible to run for president, but it seems he'll still get to make decisions as part of the incoming U.S. government.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk and Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE, an apparent effort to inflict "temporary hardship" on the American people while making massive cuts to the federal government.