Just days after being tapped to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk is searching for "high-IQ" individuals to join the taskforce.

Mercurial CEO Elon Musk has made a big deal out of being put in charge of a "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE, promising to excise $2 trillion from the country's federal budget without elaborating how he plans to do just that.

With the new Department of Government Efficiency, Musk would be gutting agencies that are responsible for enforcing the law against him.

Co-led by Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aims to massively cut U.S. spending under President-elect Donald Trump.

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!"

President-elect Donald Trump has officially announced that fellow billionaire Elon Musk will head a new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE") under his administration. Musk may not be eligible to run for president,

The newly established commission known as DOGE is run by two Trump loyalists. Musk claims the organization will have a "leaderboard" for wasteful government spending.

Musk's newfound influence in the Trump world comes as regulators are grappling with the myriad of cutting-edge technologies his companies are developing.

The department assigned to Musk and Vivek Rivaswamy will ‘provide advice and guidance from outside of Government’ on restructuring federal agencies.

Since winning back the presidency, Donald Trump has been busy selecting members of his cabinet. On Tuesday (Nov. 12), the Republican politician shared that entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new branch dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency,

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to the Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump's new agency named after the meme-styled Dogecoin.