Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday November 12, 2024 that he intended to appoint the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, to head a newly created ministry of“governmental 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 wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies.”declared the president-elect in a press release, ensuring that these two allies of his campaign would “send shock waves through the system”.
He even compared it to “Manhattan Project of our time”named for the American research and development program during World War II to create the atomic bomb.
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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, improving the lives of all Americans”praised Donald Trump.
“Gift to America”
“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 hold the United States government accountable to 'WE THE PEOPLE'”proclaimed Donald Trump again.
He gave MM. Musk and Ramaswamy until July 4, 2026 for the world's leading power to acquire a “smallest government” who 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.
A Fox presenter at Defense
Donald Trump had earlier announced his intention to appoint former elected official John Ratcliffe, 59, as head of the CIA.
“He will be a fearless defender of the constitutional rights of all Americans”said the new president-elect in a press release.
Ratcliffe previously served during the previous Trump administration as director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021.
The Republican also surprised by indicating that he intended to appoint as Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former major in the American army who served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is currently a presenter on Fox Newsthe favorite channel of conservatives in the United States.
“With Pete in charge, America's enemies have been warned – our armed forces will rise to greatness again, and America will never back down.”declared the president-elect “Pete is tough, smart and truly believes in America First.”.
In addition, the future government will include South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Minister of Homeland Security, a portfolio that includes customs and border guards.
Noem stood out last spring when she claimed in her memoirs to have shot her dog, which she considered incapable of hunting.
Faithful ally of the president-elect, “she will work closely” with Tom Homan, who was entrusted with the burning issue of immigration control, according to Donald Trump.
Earlier in the day, the Republican also said he would nominate as ambassador to Israel former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Jewish state-supporting conservative whose choice could signal Washington's future political direction. with regard to conflicts in the Middle East.
