This Thursday, tycoon Elon Musk launched an advertisement on social networks for recruit talented people willing to work more than 80 hours per week at the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), which he will lead to advise President-elect Donald Trump on public spending reductions.
“We need revolutionaries with high IQs and willing to work 80+ hours a week to keep costs down,” DOGE detailed in a post on X, a social network that Musk owns. The new department will be directed by Elon Musk and Trumpist businessman Vivek Ramaswamywho participated in the primaries for the Republican nomination.
DOGE indicated in its message that Musk and Ramaswamy will review the top 1% of resumes they receive via direct messages on the X platform. Trump announced Tuesday the creation of this office which will “provide advice and guidance from outside the government and partner with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to advance large-scale structural reforms and creating a never-before-seen entrepreneurial approach to government.
The DOGE mission will end no later than July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States. Musk’s nomination to head that office was an open secret of the campaign, although the announcement of Ramaswamy as co-director was surprising. The appointment of two people to head an efficiency office was a cause of criticism and mockery on social networks.
