Donald Trump and Joe Biden promise smooth transition of power in White House meeting

I was against bureaucracy back then too.”

Reposting the video, the former Republican presidential candidate wrote ... He concluded his post with a laughing-out-loud emoticon

Elon Muskbillionaire

The entertainment value will be epic."

Or, as Musk himself said about the leaderboard

There's nothing more boring than talking about reducing spending in government. It's worse than just doing math for the sake of math,

North said

People will be so easily drawn into playing 'gotcha' and being outraged that they may get caught up in the outcome rather than the meaningful details,

she said

I would hope that he will look for places to do what he did at SpaceX,

said Steve Grundman, a deputy under secretary at the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton

The way to save big money is to delete stuff, close things,

Grundman said, ... adding the

Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional".

On social media site X in 2023 he wrote

Elon Muskbillionaire

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency,

Musk wrote

Working overtime to ensure your tax dollars will be spent wisely."

By Wednesday afternoon, the account posted its second tweet, which read

There's a significant opportunity to make the government more capable of delivering for Americans, and ironically it will actually cost less not more,

he wrote

The US Department of Agriculture runs a foreign language school. I took a Chinese class there. Why does the department of agriculture need to teach Chinese? We have community colleges for that right?"

Petersen wrote

Bill Ackmanbillionaire

It's becoming exciting again to be an American."

Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and outspoken Trump supporter, reposted Musk's announcement of a leaderboard on X, writing

The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person,

she wrote

The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver."

Karoline Leavitt, a Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman, said in a statement to Business Insider

Doge will soon begin crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud & abuse,

tweeted Ramaswamy,

Donald Moynihanprofessor

Both of those things are fine until Musk is given charge of government, and gets to make recommendations about which agencies should have reduced budgets, or which officials should be fired,

said Moynihan

Donald Moynihanprofessor

[DOGE] will be a Federal Advisory Committee

instead of an actual department, University of Michigan public policy professor Donald Moynihan told Newsweek

Musk has enormous and multiple conflicts of interest that should prohibit him from working in the Trump administration,

he added

Ronald Reaganformer President

Most of the recommendations, especially those requiring legislation from Congress, were never implemented,

the Reagan Library said

The relationship between Musk and Trump brings into the open a level of influence that most business moguls prefer to keep under the radar,

Schaake said