President-elect Donald Trump has made his first official announcement on the much-touted Department of Government Efficiency – DOGE. In a statement released Tuesday, November 12, he wrote that the yet-to-be-created office will be jointly headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, giving it a two-year mandate to effect substantial change. It will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” he wrote.
And it seems that the former and future president has high hopes for this venture, saying, “It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time… Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time.”
In Government, or Out?
Trump wrote that this project will provide “advice and guidance from outside of Government,…