By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-15 08:56:49 | Updated at 2024-11-15 11:35:25
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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 tapped the Tesla CEO and former Republican presidential candidate duo to run the newly-created department dubbed DOGE on Tuesday.
Trump said DOGE the 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 to pay for a premium membership to the platform so they can submit their resumes.
'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, DM 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 educational or work requirements necessary for the job.
'We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,' the post said.
It is also unknown how much the job will pay - or where funding for the department will come from.
'Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero. What a great deal,' Musk said in a separate post.
Trump sparked a liberal meltdown Tuesday night by telling Musk to slash billions in government waste.
The president-elect said he hopes to recapture the spirit of J. Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, which saw the first nuclear weapons developed in just three years between 1942 and 1945.
That effort yielded the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, leading to an end to the Second World War.
Musk jumped on X to pledge to slash hundreds of agencies from the federal government.
One of the requirements for applicants is to pay for a premium membership Musk owned X so they can submit their resumes
Which agencies Musk planned to cut were unclear but he emphasized the slashing was not a 'threat to democracy' but a 'threat to bureaucracy' - adding that he would be open to suggestions.
Dogecoin - a similarly named cryptocurrency favored by Musk - surged to its highest value in more than three years in the wake of the presidential election.
The crypto token originally refers to a viral image of a Shiba Inu dog, popular online from 2010. It was intended to make fun of other cryptos as Bitcoin came to the fore, but grew in popularity - and even went on to sponsor a soccer team in the UK.
It is not clear why Musk took interest in the currency, but he has continued to make reference to the meme in posts on X, which he bought in October 2022.
