President-elect Donald Trump has appointed multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk and Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE, an apparent effort to inflict "temporary hardship" on the American people while making massive cuts to the federal government.

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!"

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, newly appointed co-leads of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have detailed their ambitious plan to reshape the federal government. Writing in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday,

Gray checkmarks are usually reserved for official government accounts. The Department of Government Efficiency will operate outside the government.

Elon Musk’s DOGE will advise on gutting federal departments and which staff should be fired if it deems they are a ‘massive waste’

The masterminds behind the proposed government efficiency agency have provided more detail about how it would function. Their explanations only makes their enterprise seem less plausible.

Trump's former chief of staff reportedly told clients on a call that Musk likely won't even stick around long enough to see his goals through.