Candidates are warned: you will need to be very motivated to work at “Doge”, the future department of “governmental efficiency” of which Elon Musk will take the helm on January 20. Just appointed to this position by President-elect Donald Trump, the whimsical boss of Tesla has already launched recruitment. And its criteria are strict.
Between two same grotesques and threats to former government teams, the “Doge” (Department of Government Efficiency) thus defined this Thursday the profiles sought on X (formerly Twitter). With his co-director, Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk claims to be looking for “revolutionaries with very high IQs, in favor of small government, and ready to work more than 80 hours a week on inglorious cost reductions “.
To apply, volunteers must send their CV by private message to the official account of the government efficiency department. Which is only possible… by paying the premium subscription to X which, remember, is a social network belonging to Elon Musk. Only the “top 1%” of applications will be examined, warns the “Doge”.
A few days after being elected, Donald Trump announced that he intended to appoint the boss of Tesla, Space X and X to head this new commission. Its mission: “Send shock waves through the system” by deregulating at all costs and making drastic cuts in the American federal budget.
A “ranking of the most terribly stupid expenses” will be published, which “will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining,” Elon Musk announced on X after the announcement of his future appointment. It remains to be seen how two notoriously self-centered figures like him and Donald Trump will get along in the long term.
The billionaire, who threw himself headlong into Donald Trump's campaign over the past year, in any case seems determined to carry out his mission, and even more. According to the New York Times this Thursday, Elon Musk met the Iranian ambassador to the UN on Monday to “ease tensions” between Tehran and the United States.
The daily quotes two anonymous Iranian sources specifying that the meeting of more than an hour in a secret location in New York between the billionaire and Amir Saeid Iravani had been “positive” and represented “good news”.
