Trump announces appointing Elon Musk to head ministry of ‘government efficiency’

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to appoint the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, to head a newly created department of “government efficiency,” jointly with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

“Together, these two great Americans will chart the course for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut unnecessary spending, and restructure federal agencies,” the president-elect said in a statement, ensuring that these two allies in his campaign would “send shockwaves through the system.”

He even compared it to the “Manhattan Project of our time,” named after the American research and development program during World War II to create the atomic bomb.

It’s been weeks since Donald Trump announced that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and

If the three wealthy businessmen come to an enduring agreement, they could make 2,000 billion dollars in clear cuts in a federal government budget of 6,500 to 7,000 billion.

“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes in the federal bureaucracy, with a vision for efficiency and, at the same time, to improve the lives of all Americans,” boasted Donald Trump.

“It is important that we clean up the waste and mass fraud in government spending of $6.5 trillion. They will work together to free our economy and make the United States government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE’,” Donald Trump proclaimed.

He gave MM. Musk and Ramaswamy until July 4, 2026 for the world’s leading power to adopt a “smaller government” which would be “a perfect gift to America for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” of July 4, 1776 .

In English, Mr. Musk’s new ministry is titled “Department of Government Efficiency”, or the acronym “Doge”.

However, “Doge” refers to a Japanese dog of the Shiba Inu breed, named Kabosu, known worldwide on the internet since 2010, thanks to a photo which inspired a wave of offbeat jokes and “memes”. The dog has become the emblem of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency originally created as a joke but with which Elon Musk became infatuated in 2021.

After years of “Dogemania”, the richest man in the world announced a space project supposed to be entirely financed in dogecoin: DOGE-1, a small satellite to be launched by his company SpaceX. Then he declared that this Dogecoin cryptocurrency could be used to buy certain Tesla products, and in 2023 he briefly used a Doge icon as the logo of Twitter, the social network that he bought and renamed X.