The pair has said the new department will repeal thousands of regulations and drastically reduce the federal workforce.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aim to scrap « thousands of regulations » and reduce the size of the federal workforce through a new, efficiency-focused government agency.
On November 12, President-elect Donald Trump announced that the two entrepreneurs would lead the Department of Government Efficiency, an agency he said would serve an advisory role to the White House and partner with the Office of Management and Budget to « drive large scale structural reform » within the federal bureaucracy.
In a Wednesday column for The Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote: « The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings. We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws. »
Employing « a lean team of small-government crusaders » and using the U.S. Constitution as their « North Star », the pair said they would target the thousands of government regulations that had been installed through « administrative fiat » and without congressional authorization.
