President-elect Donald Trump has appointed multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk and Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE, an apparent effort to inflict "temporary hardship" on the American people while making massive cuts to the federal government.

Musk—the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X (formerly Twitter)—was quoted in Trump's announcement as saying that DOGE "will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!"

Headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the body announced by Trump would operate outside government and provide advice to the White House on cutting spending.

These two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” said Donald Trump in a statement.

Elon Musk’s DOGE will advise on gutting federal departments and which staff should be fired if it deems they are a ‘massive waste’

Trump's former chief of staff reportedly told clients on a call that Musk likely won't even stick around long enough to see his goals through.

The masterminds behind the proposed government efficiency agency have provided more detail about how it would function. Their explanations only makes their enterprise seem less plausible.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a currently nonexistent entity they say will “cut the federal government down to size.” Though DOGE isn’t a real department — and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trump’s way of placating Musk by giving him the appearance of a real job — it represents a long-running right-wing attempt to gut the civil service,

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key government departments, including the Pentagon.