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.

The new "department" will aim to "slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies," according to Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency — yes, the acronym is DOGE — to “pave the way” for his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”

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

Musk, alongside Vivek Ramaswamy and a horde of terminally online bros, are X-branding the new Department Of Government Efficiency with AI-generated Doge memes. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going full Dr.