The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is crowdsourcing resumes for potential staff off the social media site X.
President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of DOGE on Tuesday, the “department” will serve Trump’s White House in an advisory role on ways to cut costs and make the government more efficient. DOGE will be led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
“We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. 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,” DOGE posted on X from a new account. “If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
Musk, who owns X and several other high profile companies, backed Trump in the election and oversaw a significant part of the Trump team’s ground game in battleground states. Ramaswamy ran against Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this year, and endorsed the former president after dropping out of the race.
Trump said DOGE could “become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time” in a statement on Tuesday, comparing the efficiency committee to the United States effort to construct the nuclear bomb during World War II.
“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans,” Trump said in a statement. “Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.’”
Musk is a well-known for cost-cutting at his companies. When the tech mogul acquired X, then called Twitter, in a $44 billion deal in 2022, Musk oversaw mass layoffs at the company. Musk said he cut around 80% of X’s workforce, equivalent to about 6,000 people, in his first few months of owning the platform.
The president-elect gave DOGE a deadline of July 4, 2026, the United States’ 250th anniversary, to come up with recommendations.
“DOGE will deliver our nation the birthday gift of a government that’s actually accountable to its people, rather than the other way around,” Ramaswamy said.
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