Ahead of his second term, President-elect Donald Trump created a new government agency led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, which is now recruiting "super high-IQ, small-government revolutionaries."
Trump secured his second term last week after beating out the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris by securing 312 Electoral College votes and the popular vote.
In the following days, Trump named numerous Cabinet appointees and administrative leaders, as well as the creation of a new agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump said that the new department will help his administration "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies Essential to the 'Save America' Movement."
DOGE "will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and the Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before," Trump said in the statement.
The department will be headed by Musk and Ramaswamy once Trump takes office on January 20, 2025.
On Thursday, the new department posted on Musk's social media outlet, X, formerly Twitter, that they are beginning to recruit employees. The post calls for "super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting," and not "more part-time idea generators."
As of Thursday, there is no official website for DOGE, but the post calls upon users to "DM this account with your CV," ensuring that "Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants."
We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don't need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that's...
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 14, 2024Newsweek has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment via email on Thursday.
The account only has three posts so far, resharing Trump's Tuesday statement, and a Wednesday post reading, "working overtime to ensure your tax dollars will be spent wisely!" DOGE's biography line reads, "The people voted for major reform."
As of Thursday, DOGE does not have an account on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social.
The new department's acronym is in reference to the dogecoin cryptocurrency, of which Musk is a fan. In the days since the announcement both Trump's electoral victory and the new department's acronym, the value of dogecoin has skyrocketed. One dogecoin is worth about 40 cents as of midday Thursday, according to CoinDesk, an information hub on cryptocurrency. That is over double its worth ahead of the November 5th election, when it was around 16 cents.
In general, cryptocurrencies have been doing better since Trump won a second term. During his election campaign, Trump told attendees of a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, in July that he wants the U.S. to be a "bitcoin superpower."
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