A week after election day, President-elect Donald Trump announced a new commission that he said could “become, potentially, the Manhattan Project of our time.” It is called the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk, who has a reflexive need to make jokes, named the commission in honor of the recently surging meme cryptocurrency he favors, which is itself named after a famous Shiba Inu.

Trump selected Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the commission. So far, Ramasway has proposed that multiple federal agencies be “deleted outright,” while Musk has vowed to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “I think people will be surprised by how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes,” Ramaswamy told Fox News on Sunday.

After an X account for DOGE posted a call on Thursday for qualified applicants who would accept bad hours and no pay to join the commission, scores of followers sent in their résumés.

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 ........

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