Elon Musk had done 'no preparation' for DOGE ahead of Trump's win so adopted a 'spaghetti against the wall' approach

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Source: The Independent

Elon Musk had done ‘no preparation’ for DOGE ahead of Trump’s win so adopted a ‘spaghetti against the wall’ approach

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Graig Graziosi
in Washington, DC
Friday 28 February 2025 22:36 GMT

The world's richest man and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, reportedly didn't start preparing to upend the federal bureaucracy until the days after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, according to a new report.

Musk and his team of young computer engineers have been gutting the federal government, recommending the firing of tens of thousands of civil servants — including at least 6,000 US veterans — and shuttering entire agencies since Trump's inauguration earlier this year.

But the plan for DOGE's work didn't begin in earnest until after Trump won, when Musk and a group of MAGA loyalists reportedly began hurriedly throwing together a plan for shaving down the federal workforce, according to a New York Times report. In early November, Musk began staying at a $2,000 a night cottage on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort property in Florida, where the early plans for DOGE started to form.

At the time, failed Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was still co-leading the group alongside Musk. Sources familiar with the situation told the newspaper that Musk and Ramaswamy's early challenges involved trying to determine a legal structure for accomplishing their goals.

One source described their methodology as throwing "spaghetti against the wall."

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