On November 12, President-elect Donald Trump announced “the potential Manhattan Project of our time” in a letter published on X by Elon Musk. Of course, Trump was referring to the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the co-leadership of Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
DOGE’s mission is to cut $500 billion to $2 trillion from federal spending, which currently stands at a staggering $7.1 trillion as of this writing.
According to Trump, “To drive this kind of drastic change, [DOGE] will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”
On November 20, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote an op-ed in The Wall…
