Elon Musk says he “still can’t believe” that his “Department of Government Efficiency” that President-elect Donald Trump tapped him to lead earlier this month “is real.”
The billionaire Tesla CEO was appointed by Trump to head the newly created department, also known as DOGE, in the politician’s second administration alongside biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. (Ramaswamy holds shares in BuzzFeed, HuffPost’s parent company.)
The proposed advisory commission, which is not an official government department, has garnered mixed reactions and sparked concerns about how it will operate.
In a post shared on his social media platform, X, formerly called Twitter, on Sunday, Musk wrote, “I still can’t believe @DOGE is real,” alongside multiple crying-laughing emojis.
“But I think it’s actually going to work,” he added in a follow-up post.
Trump has described DOGE as an effort to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal…
