What Can the Department of Government Efficiency Do?
President-elect Trump has indicated the entity will operate outside the government, a position that comes with legal limits.
10 programs that could be on the ‘government efficiency’ chopping block
Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk’s partner at Donald Trump’s planned spending panel, suggested defunding programs that Congress no longer authorizes. Here are some of those.
What Services Could Be Cut by Trump's Government Efficiency Program
The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, aims to cut "wasteful" spending by defunding expired programs. Many of those programs provide critical services.
What to know about Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head an effort, dubbed DOGE, to reduce wasteful federal spending. Here's what it's about.
How Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency could actually work
The department wouldn't be a department at all, but an outside group that can likely only make suggestions — unless Trump tries to axe current laws.
Musk and Ramaswamy won't be paid to lead new Department of Government Efficiency, Musk says
Elon Musk shared on X that nor he or Vivek Ramaswamy will be paid to co-lead the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump appoints Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to head Department of Government Efficiency
President-elect Donald Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. This would be an outside department that would make recommendations for cutting waste from the government.
What is DOGE? Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk and Ramaswamy
Elon Musk’s DOGE will advise on gutting federal departments and which staff should be fired if it deems they are a ‘massive waste’
Elon Musk pushes Lutnick for Treasury
Elon Musk is backing Donald Trump’s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Treasury Department, touting the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald as a potential secretary who “will actually enact change” from the most powerful economic post in Trump’s cabinet.
How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to whip the American government into shape. On November 14th their newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it wants to hire “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” to get to work on cost-cutting.
Elon Musk downsized Big Tech. Can he do the same to Big Government?
Can the cost-cutting tactics Musk has employed in the private sector work to corral waste and bloat in the federal government? Musk and his DOGE cochair, the biot
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Trump’s “Efficiency” Plans Are Getting More Extreme Than Project 2025
Speaking with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Trump’s nominated co-chair for the Department of Government ...
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Trump taps Ohio native Vivek Ramaswamy to co-head ‘government efficiency’ initiative
Ramaswamy will oversee the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, with Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, ...
The disappointing history of government efficiency commissions like DOGE
Since at least the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, presidents have been appointing commissions to reform the government ...
Trump Picks Two People To Lead Government Efficiency, Sparks Flood of Jokes
The new department is being co-led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Elon Musk's DOGE is looking for people to help cut government spending. But is he offering a real job? And is it paid?
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is looking for people to join — but it's not clear if it's a paid role, or if ...