Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - US President-elect, Donald Trump has appointed tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump said in a statement that the department will help
"dismantle Government Bureaucracy" and slash excess regulations.
"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 —
Essential to the Save America Movement," Trump wrote in a statement
on Tuesday (capitalization his).
"It will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project'
of our time," Trump added. "Republican politicians have dreamed about
the objectives of 'DOGE' for a very long time. To drive this kind of drastic
change, the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and
guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and
Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and
create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.
According to Trump, Elon Musk and Ramaswamy will
wrap up their work no later than July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of
the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Reacting to the appointment, Musk wrote: "All actions
of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum
transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or
not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a
leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be
both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.
"Either we get government efficient or America goes
bankrupt. That's what it comes down to. Wish I were wrong, but it’s
true," another Tuesday post reads.
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