DOGE’s Big Ideas Include Ending Remote Work and Daylight Saving Changes

Here are six ways Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have suggested trimming the federal government.

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The Department of Government Efficiency , or DOGE, begins its work in earnest Thursday when Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meet with House and Senate Republicans to discuss the incoming Trump administration’s effort to cut federal spending and regulations.

Musk, the world’s richest man and chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, and Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who sought the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, have offered a range of ideas as »outside volunteers,« some granular and others sweeping, to constrain the government’s reach.