Defense is the largest area of discretionary spending in the federal budget, and Elon Musk has been skeptical of its contract practices.

It may be tough to single out any particular ones as the worst of the bunch, but allow me to suggest two contenders: tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have been tapped as co-chairs of a proposed new “Department of Government Efficiency,

Democrats and good government groups are skeptical of how much Trump's outside commission run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be able to do.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it is already recruiting people to work on the new initiative to cut federal spending.

Both men have voiced ambitious ideas for how to use their new powers, whatever they may turn out to be. Musk boasted that DOGE, a reference to his favored cryptocurrency Dogecoin, will send "shockwaves through the system,

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy appear to be soliciting applicants to work at the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a social media post Thursday. The big picture: The initiative,