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The project plans to cut roughly $2 trillion from the federal budget, or 30 percent of annual government spending.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to launch the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he introduced during a pre-election interview on billionaire Elon Muskโ€™s social media platform, X.

Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will co-chair the effort, which aims to slash $2 trillion from the roughly $6.75 trillion federal budget, hack through a labyrinth of executive branch regulations, and reform or remove entire federal agencies.

They would also seek to sharply reduce the number of government bureaucrats โ€œproportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified,โ€ the duo wrote in a Nov. 20 Wall Street Journal op-ed.

โ€œTogether, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies,โ€ Trump wrote in a statement.

โ€œIt will become, potentially, โ€˜The Manhattan Projectโ€™ of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of โ€˜DOGEโ€™ for a very long time.โ€

How they might accomplish that effort, however, is unclear, experts told The Epoch Times. Especially because the departmentโ€”which Trump said will serve in an advisory capacity to the White House and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)โ€”may encounter roadblocks in its mandate to โ€œdrive large-scale structural reform.โ€

Here is a breakdown of what the new efficiency department is, what its goals are, and what to expect from the project moving forward.

The Scope of DOGE

Trump said that DOGE will make โ€œchanges to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiencyโ€ to โ€œdrive out the massive waste and fraudโ€ in the federal governmentโ€™s multi-trillion dollar annual spending.

Although it has the word โ€œdepartmentโ€ in its name, DOGE is not a federal agency like the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which audits the federal government for Congress.

โ€œTrump has made clear that DOGE is an advisory board operating outside the federal government,โ€ Jordan Haring, the director of fiscal policy at the American Action Forum, told The Epoch Times. โ€œThus, unlike federal agencies, it does not need to be formally enacted through an act of Congress.โ€

Byย Jacob Burg

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