Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.

Just days after being tapped to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk is searching for "high-IQ" individuals to join the taskforce.

On a Saturday morning in December 2022, Elon Musk summoned finance executives at Twitter, which he had bought six weeks earlier, to a conference call. Then he drilled into a spreadsheet that contained the social media company’s expenditures.

Musk, alongside Vivek Ramaswamy and a horde of terminally online bros, are X-branding the new Department Of Government Efficiency with AI-generated Doge memes. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going full Dr.

There was a minor conflict of interest early on in the department's recruiting drive when users realized the only way to send a direct message to the DOGE account was by paying fo

Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to streamline federal agencies and cut bureaucracy. Their plan focuses on using executive actions to bring quick changes.

While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ( which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.