The tycoon Elon Musk has launched this Thursday a social media announcement to recruit gifted people willing to work more than 80 hours a week. at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that he will lead to advise the president-elect, Donald Trumpon cuts in public spending.
“We need high-IQ revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours a week on cost-cutting,” the DOGE account detailed in a message posted on X, a social network from which it Musk owns.
The new department will be headed by Elon Musk and Trump businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who participated in the primaries for the Republican nomination. The DOGE stated in its message that Musk and Ramaswamy will will review the top 1% of resumes. they receive through direct messages on the X platform.
Trump announced Tuesday the creation of this office that “will provide advice and guidance from outside the government and will partner with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget for push for large-scale structural reforms and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never before seen.” DOGE’s mission will conclude no later than July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States. United States.
Musk’s appointment to head this office had been an open secret since the campaign, although the announcement of Ramaswamy as co-director came as a surprise. The naming of two people to head an efficiency office had been a source of criticism and derision on social networks.