{"id":2387,"date":"2024-11-13T01:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T01:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:48:02","slug":"elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to lead \u2018Department of Government Efficiency\u2019 in Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest person has a new job. <\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk will lead a newly created \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency\u201d that will spearhead efforts to shrink the federal government, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Musk will work with fellow Trump acolyte Vivek Ramaswamy to run DOGE \u2014 a winking reference to a joke cryptocurrency \u2013 and conclude their work by July 4, 2026, Trump said in a written statement announcing an effort that had been previewed during his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to \u2018WE THE PEOPLE,\u2019\u201d the president-elect said. <\/p>\n<p>Details of the department \u2014 such as the size of its staff, if any, and the scope of its mission \u2014 were not yet available. <\/p>\n<p>The budget-cutting endeavor gives an unusual and influential role to Musk, who spent more than $100 million to help elect Trump and has billions in government contracts through his Space X and Starlink companies. <\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy ran in the Republican primary in 2024 but went on to become a passionate advocate for Trump on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n<p>Trump floated the idea of naming Musk as the head of a government efficiency commission in September during a speech to the New York Economic Club. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest person has a new job. Elon Musk will lead a newly created \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency\u201d that will spearhead efforts to shrink the federal government, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Musk will work with fellow Trump acolyte Vivek Ramaswamy to run DOGE \u2014 a winking reference to a joke cryptocurrency \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}