Trump's former chief of staff reportedly told clients on a call that Musk likely won't even stick around long enough to see his goals through.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key government departments, including the Pentagon.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a currently nonexistent entity they say will “cut the federal government down to size.” Though DOGE isn’t a real department — and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trump’s way of placating Musk by giving him the appearance of a real job — it represents a long-running right-wing attempt to gut the civil service,