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Christiaan Hetzner

Elon Musk is hiring for his DOGE taskforce—but you’ll need to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting

Elon Musk speaking at a Donald Trump Campaign Rally At Madison Square Garden In NYC (Credit: Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images)

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency taskforce has thrown open its doors to recruitment, inviting applications even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

Nicknamed DOGE after the cryptocurrency preferred by the Tesla CEO, its stated purpose is to radically shrink the size of the federal government by streamlining bureaucracy, eliminating jobs and shaving up to a third off of the $6.75 trillion fiscal budget. 

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