Trump to use one of his first executive orders to create DOGE, Semafor reports

Very efficient! After all the fanfare, DOGE won't be a new 'department' after all—it will just be a new name for the United States Digital Service,

Gabe Fleisher added

AFGE will not stand idly by as a secretive group of ultra-wealthy individuals with major conflicts of interest attempt to deregulate themselves and give their own companies sweetheart government contracts while firing civil servants and dismantling the institutions designed to serve the American people,

said AFGE National President Everett Kelley in a press release

[Musk is] getting an office for about 20 people we're hiring to make sure these get implemented,

said Trump during Monday's press event​​ per Quartz

There will be meaningful progress every week,

Musk added

This advisory committee led by Musk and Ramaswamy, who hold financial interests that will be directly affected by federal budgetary and regulatory policies, is beset both by conflicts of interest and the biased and extremist views of the libertarian billionaire class,

said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, one of the watchdog groups on the suit