Trump Appoints Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy To Lead New Department Of Government Efficiency

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will together establish a new Department of Government Efficiency in his second administration.

Musk and Ramaswamy have been appointed to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump’s statement reads. The former president added that the government department led by Musk and Ramaswamy will partner with the White House Office of Management and Budget in an effort “to drive large scale structural reform.” (RELATED: Trump, Elon Musk Reportedly Spoke To Zelenskyy About Future Support For Ukraine)

“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans. Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending,” Trump’s statement reads.

“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in a statement included in Trump’s press release.

🚨STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Let’s go, @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy! pic.twitter.com/YKT1V1UBVR

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) November 13, 2024

Threat to democracy?

Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024

Musk previewed what the newly established Department of Government Efficiency could achieve during a campaign rally ahead of the election.

“I mean, at the end of the day, you’re being taxed. You’re being taxed. All government spending is taxation. So whether it’s direct taxation or all government spending, it either becomes inflation or it’s direct taxation,” Musk said.

“Your money is being wasted, and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that. We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” he added.

We will not go gently, @elonmusk. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/sbVka2vTiW

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 13, 2024

Ramaswamy was once in the running for Trump’s vice president pick but once ruled out, became a surrogate for the former president on the campaign trail. Musk and Trump’s relationship has grown throughout the 2024 election as the Tesla CEO launched his an “America PAC,” to help promote get-out-the-vote efforts in favor of the former president.

“It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time,” the president-elect added in his statement.