Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE to clean up US bureaucracy: Trump

In Short
Department of Government Efficiency aims to dismantle bureaucracy, cut wasteful expenditures
Trump likens DOGE to ‘The Manhattan Project’ for efficiency
Musk and Ramaswamy vow to shake up government waste
US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named  Elon Musk and “American patriot” Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to clean up the federal bureaucracy.

In a statement, Trump said that the 53-year-old billionaire Musk and the 39-year-old former Republican presidential candidate Ramaswamy will work from outside the government to offer the White House “advice and guidance”, partnering with the Office of Management and Budget to “drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”