- In November, then President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk “will lead” the Department of Government Efficiency. Trump set up DOGE on his first day in office via executive order, but now the White House says Musk isn’t the one leading the office—he isn’t a part of the department at all.
Multibillionaire and presidential “first buddy” Elon Musk has been the public face of much of the Trump Administration’s cost-slashing efforts as he appears with the president in the Oval Office and publicly celebrates the work of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a task force whose name Musk himself suggested.
