He will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, President-elect Donald Trump said
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during his second term in the White House.
“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,” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday.
Musk was quoted in the statement as saying that “this will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!”
The new department “will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” the statement read, referring to the WWII-era nuclear research program that allowed the US to build the world’s first atomic bomb.
Trump said that Musk will…