They anticipated it during the electoral campaign and it is now official: Elon Musk will be in charge of the new Ministry of Government Effectiveness of the future Administration of Donald Trump. The richest man in the world will share with the businessman and former candidate for the Republican nomination Vivek Ramaswamy the address of this new department, DOGE, by its acronym, which alludes to the cryptocurrency based on the meme of the same name and to which the owner of Tesla has referred so many times.
This new department, according to Trump, will energize “large-scale structural reforms“This could have powerful implications for the federal government. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will lead the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, reduce excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies,” he said. the president-elect.
“This will send shockwaves through the system and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk himself said, according to the statement with which the Trump campaign announced his nomination, in which this new department is compared to “the “Manhattan Project” of our time“, referring to the development of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
Musk, who has donated more than $118 million to the Trump campaign, and Ramaswamy have advocated applying. cuts in federal government spendingwhich could mean a reduction in staff. According to Trump’s statement, both will complete their work no later than July 4, 2026. “A smaller government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to the United States on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I’m sure they will succeed!”, he concludes.
Musk’s proximity to the incoming White House administration, however, has raised concerns given that his businesses in the United States automotive sector and the space industry They maintain contracts with the federal government.
Signatures for the Pentagon and the CIA
This Tuesday, the former Republican president also made other notable appointments for his next administration, among which the veteran and presenter of the ‘Fox’ channel stands out. Pete Hegseth, new Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, a decorated soldier from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a graduate of Princeton University, will lead the Pentagon and lead more than 1.3 million active-duty troops.
Trump also announced John Ratcliffeformer Director of National Intelligence, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (INC.). A former Texas congressman, Ratcliffe led national intelligence during the first Trump administration and during the first year of the pandemic and, in that capacity, was the Republican’s top adviser on the matter.
The future president also proposed to the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of your Administration. With Noem’s election to DHS and the recent announcement of the appointment of Tom Homan To resume leadership of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service), Trump constitutes the executive core of his immigration policy with very similar people and advocates of the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants that he predicted. Trump also promised during this election campaign to invoke martial law to arrest undocumented immigrants and sentence those who murder police officers to death.
Other notable appointments announced in recent hours include that of the former governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee, new ambassador to Israelwho, according to Trump, “will work tirelessly to achieve peace in the Middle East.” Huckabee’s nomination solidifies Trump’s pledge to more closely align his foreign policy with Israel’s interests as it wages wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The future president also announced that the businessman and philanthropist Steve Wittkoffone of his closest friends, will be his future special envoy for the Middle East. Another war veteran, in this case the Republican congressman Mike Waltzwas proposed by Trump as his national security advisora key decision-making position to manage geopolitical conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza. Trump said in a statement that the lawmaker and former Green Beret is “an expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and global terrorism.”
