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DOGE Already Crowdsourcing ‘High-IQ Small Government Revolutionaries’

Trump Announcement Has Americans Grinning Ear to Ear

byAnastasia Boushee
November 17, 2024

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already begun crowdsourcing resumes for potential employees in a post on X, requesting applicants who are “super high-IQ small government revolutionaries.”

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of DOGE — releasing a statement confirming that the advisory panel would be led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

In the statement, Trump declared that DOGE could “become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.”

“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans,” Trump’s statement continued. “Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.’”

Now, DOGE is already recruiting capable cost-cutters to reduce the size of the bloated bureaucracy. In a post on the department’s official X account, DOGE requested resumes for people willing to help with “unglamorous cost-cutting” — noting that they don’t need any more “part-time idea generators.”

“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. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,” the post read. “If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”

As the post explained, DOGE already has plenty of ideas for what needed to be cut from the federal government’s budget and enough people willing to come up with ideas. Many of those ideas are coming from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his legendary libertarian father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who is well-known for his disdain for wasteful spending. Rand Paul has continued his father’s legacy with his annual “Festivus” airing of grievances, where he comes up with a comprehensive list of outrageous government spending.

Rand Paul has already begun sharing these ridiculous expenditures with DOGE, including a post revealing that “The National Institutes of Health spent over $3,000,000 to watch hamsters fight on steroids.”

Americans are hoping for Musk to do to the U.S. government exactly what he did to Twitter, now X. After purchasing the platform in a $44 billion deal in 2022, Musk immediately began cutting staff in mass layoffs — axing 80% of X’s workforce, close to 6,000 employees. There were a few hiccups in the beginning, but the company soon began running even better than it was before.

DOGE has been given a deadline of July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the United States, to come up with recommendations for the Trump-Vance administration.

“DOGE will deliver our nation the birthday gift of a government that’s actually accountable to its people, rather than the other way around,” Ramaswamy said.

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Anastasia Boushee
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