Billionaire Elon Musk has already secured a White House email address and office space, clearing the way for him to launch the cost-cutting effort he’s called the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk was itching to get to work at his new US government department dedicated to slashing red tape and bureaucratic spending. As Donald Trump became president, Musk’s axe had already fallen on his first victim: Vivek Ramaswamy,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman responded to Musk’s allegation that ‘they don’t actually have the money’ by calling him “the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time.”

With Ramaswamy gone, Musk’s DOGE will be inside the White House. The size of its ambitions for remaking the federal government are unclear.

During Trump’s late-October rally in New York City, he claimed that his DOGE group could slash $2 trillion in spending from the federal budget. The federal government spent more than $6.7 trillion last fiscal year,