Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have started hiring for their newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, but applicants must be subscribed to X to submit their resumes.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed the Tesla CEO and former Republican presidential candidate duo to lead the newly created department called DOGE.
Trump said DOGE duo will “dismantle” the $6.5 trillion federal government by co-leading the “Manhattan Project of our time.”
The department announced on X – owned by Musk – that they are hiring team members.
One of the requirements for applicants is that they pay for a premium membership to the platform so that they can submit their resume.
“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,” DOGE said.
‘If that’s you, send a DM to this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
Users must pay for a verified X account to send messages to DOGE. The premium level membership, which costs $84 annually, gives users a verified account.
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have started hiring for their newly formed Department of Government Efficiency
It is unclear if there are any specific education or work requirements for the position.
“We need small government revolutionaries with super high IQs who are willing to work 80+ hours a week on unglamorous cost cutting,” the post said.
It’s also unknown how much the job will pay — or where funding for the department will come from.
‘This will indeed be tedious work, make many enemies and the compensation is zero. What a great deal,” Musk said in a separate post.
Trump caused a liberal meltdown Tuesday night by telling Musk to cut billions in government waste.
The president-elect said he hopes to recapture the spirit of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons in just three years between 1942 and 1945.
That effort produced the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II.
Musk jumped on X and promised to cut hundreds of agencies from the federal government.
One of the requirements for applicants is to pay for a premium membership owned by Musk,
Which agencies Musk planned to cut was unclear, but he stressed that the cuts were not a “threat to democracy” but a “threat to bureaucracy” – adding that he would be open to suggestions.
Dogecoin – a similar cryptocurrency favored by Musk – rose to its highest value in more than three years in the wake of the presidential election.
The crypto token originally referred to a viral image of a Shiba Inu dog, popular online from 2010. It was intended to poke fun at other cryptos when Bitcoin came to prominence, but grew in popularity – even going on to sponsor a football team. in Great Britain.
It’s not clear why Musk showed interest in the coin, but he continued to reference the meme in posts on X, which he purchased in October 2022.