When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he quickly gutted the social media platform to its core operations, dispensing with anything he saw as wasteful or superfluous. Now, Donald Trump wants him to do the same to the US government.
The world’s richest man was named this week alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, a former rival of Trump’s for the Republican nomination, to head up a project with a mandate to “dismantle government bureaucracy”.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, whose acronym “Doge” is a nod to a Musk-endorsed cryptocurrency, is one that the multibillionaire had publicly lobbied to lead. Having become one of Trump’s highest profile supporters, he pledged at an October rally to rip $2tn out of the annual federal budget.
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