Trump Transition Team Announces Department of Government Efficiency

Posted by Ryan Fitzgerald on November 13, 2024

A campaign promise outlined by President-Elect Trump earlier in the campaign, is starting to take shape. On Tuesday, the transition team for the President-Elect announced in a statement that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The two entrepreneurs and corporate leaders have been tasked with dismantling bureaucracy, cutting back regulation, and restructuring federal agencies to drive a smaller federal government.  

As many know, Elon Musk is the current CEO of electric vehicle automaker, Tesla, as well as, the Owner and CEO of Space X, while also being the largest stockholder and leader at X (formerly Twitter). Vivek Ramaswamy was himself a former candidate for President in the 2024 Republican Primary. He is an entrepreneur who has founded and led venture investment into several firms in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, venture capital, financial services, and technology platform sectors.   

The Trump transition team stated the newly formulated agency will function outside of normal government constructs but didn’t define further what that might mean. 

The goal of the DOGE is to work closely with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to “…drive large scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.” 

It appears the role or leadership of Musk and Ramaswamy will be short-term, with the goal of wrapping up their downsizing efforts by July 4, 2026. Whether the DOGE will continue after the high-profile leaders depart has yet to be fully determined, but the action is directly in line with what President-Elect Trump outlined to voters during his latest campaign.  

As the GoWest team pointed out in previewing a second Trump Presidency, there is a focused expediency to his return to the White House, and the President-Elect is already naming his cabinet nominees. Those individuals will be expected to hit the ground running on January 20th. The expectation is that cabinet members and key leaders will quickly get to work implementing President-Elect Trump’s views on the operation, outlook and external view of the United States, and its government. The GoWest team will closely follow the development of the newly outlined DOGE, as well as the roll out of the President’s short-term and long-term agendas.  

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