(NEXSTAR) — Just days after being tapped to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk is searching for “high-IQ” individuals willing to work long hours to join the taskforce. But the job may not come with a paycheck.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will spearhead the new department during his administration.
Despite its name, DOGE isn’t an official government agency. Instead, it’s a private initiative that Trump said will advise the White House on ways to reduce spending, cut regulations and “create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”
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“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people,” Musk said in a statement.
While it’s unclear how the department will operate, we at least know the type of team members DOGE is looking to recruit.
”We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,” the taskforce said in a Thursday morning post on X, Musk’s social media platform.
Those interested in joining DOGE were encouraged to send their resumes or CVs via direct message to its official X account.
“Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” the post read.
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When an X user pointed out that the “task at hand will require a monumental amount of tedious super-high quality work,” Musk agreed.
“Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero. What a great deal!” the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO replied with a laughing emoji. Musk previously said that neither he nor Ramaswamy were getting paid to run DOGE.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Ramaswamy said the agency plans to “stimulate the economy and to restore self-governance again” while slashing and burning government bureaucracy to help Americans.
As the taskforce takes shape, Ramaswamy said on X that they want to be “as transparent as possible with the public,” and a weekly DOGE podcast, titled “Dogecasts,” is on the horizon.
