President Trump Announces Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy’s Role In New Administration!

President Trump has huge plans for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in his new administration, and he just announced exactly what those are.

Musk and Ramaswamy will be joining forced to lead a new department — the Department of Government Efficiency (a.k.a. DOGE — you can’t say President Trump doesn’t have a sense of humor!)

Their job will be, in essence, to cut down on federal bureaucracy — it’s about time!

In his own words, President Trump explained,

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement.”

Colin Rugg broke it down:

BREAKING: Donald Trump announces that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) together.

"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration…"

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 13, 2024

Elon Musk shared President Trump’s full statement:

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024

NBC News reported:

President-elect Donald Trump named tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday to head up a new Department of Government Efficiency, fulfilling a campaign pledge to give Musk sweeping oversight of government spending.

Trump said in a statement on to social media that the department will help “dismantle Government Bureaucracy” and slash excess regulations. The name of the agency, DOGE for short, is a reference to a meme and a cryptocurrency associated with Musk.

“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in the statement released by the transition team.

On X, he added: “Threat to democracy? Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!”

Musk has said he wants to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, which is more than the discretionary budget of $1.7 trillion. He has provided few details about what he’d like to cut, though he has attacked relatively small recipients of federal money, such as the Education Department and NPR.

Musk has said the cuts would mean “temporary hardship” for some people.

Ramaswamy has called for mass layoffs at federal agencies, a tactic that could sidestep legal protections that otherwise insulate the federal civil service from targeted political cuts.

The New York Post has more details:

President-elect Donald Trump continued to fill his administration at breakneck speed Tuesday night, tapping SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency.”

Despite the name, Trump clarified in a statement that the Musk-Ramaswamy effort would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” in tandem with the White House and its Office of Management & Budget “to drive large scale [sic] structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”

The president-elect, 78, likened the effort to the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb and quoted Musk, 53, as saying: “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!”

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement,” Trump added.