Musk commented that his new department would have fire “merch.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced that billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency,” despite the fact that government agencies can only be created by an act of Congress.
The president-elect tasked Musk and Ramaswamy with eliminating the “massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending.”his agency’s “actions will be posted online for maximum transparency,” and will update a leaderboard for the “most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars.”, which allows the government to set up groups to provide “expert advice, ideas, and diverse opinions to the Federal Government.
The president-elect compared the new office to the Manhattan Project—the multinational effort to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. The project had spent about $2.2 billion–or over $30 billion adjusted for inflation in 2023–by the time the war ended in 1945, according to the
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