Elon Musk also can’t believe his DOGE government efficiency “department” exists

Elon Musk had some insightful thoughts on the new government effectiveness “department” he has been tasked with leading Vivek Ramaswamy. “I still can’t believe DOGE is real,” he wrote on his social media platform X on Sunday evening, followed by this crying-laughing face emoji. After Musk fueled Donald TrumpAfter returning to the White House, investing about $200 million in his campaign, the president-elect announced that he and Ramaswamy would lead an external advisory committee aimed at cutting $2 trillion in government spending — a plan that even conservative economists have proposed. called a “fantasy”. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Fla.) will lead a new House oversight committee working with the DOGE panel — an appointment that some of Taylor Greene’s fellow lawmakers have compared punishment, not reward – and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is forming a Senate DOGE caucus. The critics have underlines that DOGE has no budget, no offices, no staff, and no long-term mandate, but Musk doesn’t seem to care. “I think this is really going to work,” he wrote on X.