Team effort: Americans are brimming with DOGE cost-cut ideas for Musk and Vivek

Opinion News

Team effort: Americans are brimming with DOGE cost-cut ideas for Musk and Vivek
Donald TrumpElon MuskFederal Budget
  • 📰 nypost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 38 sec. here
  • 7 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 36%
  • Publisher: 67%

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramasamy aim to halt hundreds of billions of dollars of government waste and fraud — and the two have asked ordinary Americans to help them find it.

Elon Musk , co-chair of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency , carries his son"X" on his shoulders, as he walks with US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

Top DOGE Elon Musk, House speaker balk at Senate report showing only 6% of federal workers show up in person on full-time basis: ‘Absurd’Hunter got the full Nixon, prosecute the other Bidens and other commentary Incentivize federal employees to participate in identifying waste and suggesting innovative ways to save money. Give them a 15% finders’-fee bonus for every dollar saved.

Institute a 10% spending cut across the board, including defense . Follow it with a nine-month zero-based budgeting exercise that requires justification for each new expenditure. Let these bureaucrats defend their jobs. Open non-environmentally sensitive federal lands to the mining of critical minerals, bringing in billions in royalties and lease payments.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

nypost /  🏆 91. in US

Donald Trump Elon Musk Federal Budget Government Spending Vivek Ramaswamy

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Elon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesElon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesIt looks like President-elect Donald Trump will have not one, but two men in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or 'DOGE.'
Read more »

Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead Department of Government EfficiencyTrump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead Department of Government EfficiencyTrump did not detail how this new department would be funded
Read more »

Vivek Ramaswamy Once Trashed Elon Musk as a “Puppet” For ChinaVivek Ramaswamy Once Trashed Elon Musk as a “Puppet” For ChinaBefore cochairing DOGE, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur also reportedly suggested Musk's companies would cease to exist without government subsidies and contracts.
Read more »

Elon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesElon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesIt looks like President-elect Donald Trump will have not one, but two men in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or 'DOGE.'
Read more »

Elon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesElon Musk teams up with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE', Trump sharesIt looks like President-elect Donald Trump will have not one, but two men in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or 'DOGE.'
Read more »

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Trump’s New ‘Department of Government Efficiency’Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Trump’s New ‘Department of Government Efficiency’President-elect Trump announced Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE).
Read more »



Render Time: 2025-02-13 01:17:39