Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were appointed by Trump to lead DOGE, which will function as an advisory committee outside of the government.

To do that, he’s creating a new agency, called the Department of Government Efficiency.If the name sounds like a meme, it’s because it is. DOGE is the brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk, who came up with the acronym in homage to the mascot for the digital currency Dogecoin,