All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power
Comment Well, it's official(ish): US president-elect Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise to appoint Elon Musk to the head of "the Department of Government Efficiency" – or DOGE.
No, we're not joking. Doge, as in Dogecoin, the meme cryptocurrency championed by the SpaceX supremo. We even warned about the possibility of such a move back in September when Musk and Trump's cozy relationship first started to bubble up to the surface of the campaign.
Who'd have thought the world's richest man, whose business empire relies on American government contracts and clashes with American regulators, would be interested in helping Donald oversee the running of American government organizations and their spending? It's wild how they came to be such good friends.
With yesterday's announcement, Trump made it somewhat official that Musk will co-chair of DOGE with former biotech CEO-cum-Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies."
