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| He will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, President-elect Donald Trump said | He will co-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 a new 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. | |
| In September, Trump promised to appoint Musk to “government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, and making recommendations for drastic reforms.” | |
| Musk – the world’s richest man and the owner of SpaceX, Tesla, and X – endorsed Trump shortly after his failed assassination attempt in July, and actively campaigned for him during the last months leading up to Election Day on November 5. | |
| The founder of the pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, Ramaswamy sought the Republican Party’s nomination during the 2024 presidential election, but eventually dropped out and endorsed Trump. | |
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