Mr. Musk has turned to Silicon Valley to help recruit executives who will take up unofficial positions across the federal government.

Elon Musk walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday that half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

Elon Musk is reneging on his biggest DOGE promise. In a live interview on X Wednesday evening with political strategist Mark Penn, the billionaire conceded that his initial goal of cutting the federal budget by “at least $2 trillion” was a taller task than he first believed.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body,

The so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” intends to deploy unpaid executives to hang out in federal agencies. What could possibly go wrong?

Those who aren't deployed will be stationed at the US Digital Service, a White House branch that provides IT consulting services to federal agencies.

The efficiency and cost-cutting effort known as DOGE is taking formative steps ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and The New York Times has some new details about where the project is headed.