Do you consider yourself a “super high-IQ small-government” revolutionary? Are you willing to work “80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting”?
Elon Musk might have a gig for you.
The billionaire Tesla CEO — whom President-elect Donald Trump has picked to lead a regulation-slashing effort alongside wealthy investor Vivek Ramaswamy — appears to be accepting resumes for his new team.
The details of the government-downsizing operation remain murky, but Trump announced that Musk and Ramaswamy will lead a so-called Department of Government Efficiency with a broad mandate to help “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” The effort appears likely to be an outside advisory committee rather than an actual department, which would require congressional approval.
Musk and Ramaswamy are already recruiting, according to a social media account that appears to have their backing.
“We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE,” says a post from an account titled “Department of Government Efficiency” on the social media platform X. It’s not clear who runs the account with the handle @DOGE, but Ramaswamy reposted the message from his own account.
“We don’t need more part-time idea generators,” the account posted. “We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 14, 2024
Sending a direct message to the account requires users to be verified, which requires them to have a paid account with the social media platform owned by Musk.
In response to one X user who reposted that comment, Musk wrote: “Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero. What a great deal!”
If the operation is successful, Ramaswamy thinks it could help drive ambitious young people into federal jobs, he posted Thursday.
“If we succeed in achieving our objectives at DOGE, I expect that a higher % of the nation’s smartest & most ambitious graduates will end up working in the government, for finite periods of time, instead of just flocking to Silicon Valley & Wall Street. This will be a good thing,” he wrote.
