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Experts: DOGE scheme doomed because of Musk and Ramaswamy's "meme-level … – Salon.com

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaires President-elect Donald Trump picked to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have made their aspirations of slashing government spending clear, promising to bring a "chainsaw" to federal bureaucracy and costs.
To cut back on hundreds of billions in government spending, one approach Ramaswamy has suggested is eliminating programs that have lapsed spending authorizations despite still being funded by Congress, […]
Experts: DOGE scheme doomed because of Musk and Ramaswamy's "meme-level … – Salon.com

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Supervise Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy – New York Magazine

Nobody much knows how to deal with the Department of Government Efficiency, whose DOGE acronym is based on a cryptocurrency-adjacent meme. Donald Trump’s recently acquired buddy Elon Musk seems to have developed the idea of a sort of cartoon superhero agency designed to destroy the deep state — or maybe it was just a joke, suggests Decrypt’s Liz Napolitano. DOGE has no legal status, no public funding, no authority to do much of anything other than bloviate, headed by Musk and Vivek […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Supervise Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy – New York Magazine

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The More You Learn About Elon Musk's DOGE, the Less Sense It Makes

Earlier this week, I wrote about the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and its vague but audacious plans for reforming the executive branch after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two men leading the project, have largely spoken about it only in hazy terms—at least until now. The clarity that they have offered is unlikely to satisfy its critics or doubters, to say the least.
The op-ed opens with a certain lack of self-awareness. “Our […]
The More You Learn About Elon Musk's DOGE, the Less Sense It Makes

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Elon Musk's DOGE Takes Aim At Federal Agencies—Here's Where Cuts Could Be Made

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the upcoming Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency commission, also known as “DOGE”, have vowed to slash federal spending by “at least $2 trillion,” Musk suggested last month at a Trump rally—targeting agencies like the Pentagon and the Education Department—though it’s unclear how he arrived at that figure.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024. (Photo by Saul Martinez for The […]
Elon Musk's DOGE Takes Aim At Federal Agencies—Here's Where Cuts Could Be Made

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Musk and Ramaswamy say DOGE will target $500 billion in spending. Here's where they …

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are sharing details about how their newly created Department of Government Efficiency — which isn’t an official government department — plans to take aim at paring federal spending, with the two writing in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on Wednesday that they are aiming to cut $500 billion in annual spending.
The announcement of DOGE has raised a host of questions, from whether Musk and Ramaswamy will have the authority to make changes […]
Musk and Ramaswamy say DOGE will target $500 billion in spending. Here's where they …

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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy Eye 5-Day Office Week For Federal Workers – NDTV

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the newly formed task force to review government spending – said they will push for eliminating work-from-home policies for federal workers, an idea that could spark clashes between the new administration and government employee unions.
“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, […]
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy Eye 5-Day Office Week For Federal Workers – NDTV