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Elon Musk's DOGE is working overtime to meet their saving goals.
Donald Trump's crypto czar David Sacks has revealed in a podcast that
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staff have completely changed the work culture as they are working very late. The facilities people initially did not know what to do with them as they've never seen people working so late on a Friday night, David Sacks said as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is creating ripples -- for many reasons.
Sharing an anecdote about DOGE, David Sacks said he went to greet them and the room was full of young people. "I think they all are engineers. They were wearing suits and ties. They were working really late," Sacks said adding that new facilities access had to be created for them.
Is DOGE working 120 hours a week?
Elon Musk recently said his team DOGE is working 120 hours a week. "Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast," Elon Musk wrote as he made it a DOGE vs bureaucracy fight as DOGE has been asked to cut the cost.
Why is DOGE in controversy?
DOGE was announced after Donald Trump won the election and between November to January 20, DOGE started working secretively. The meetings used to be held in Starlink offices. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were the two co-chiefs of the department. Ramaswamy exited DOGE to run for the governor election in Ohio. Now a complete Elon Musk show, DOGE gained prominence as they got an office in the White House. DOGE staff got access to the federal payments system. They are visiting agency offices and are asking federal employees to justify their jobs in 15 minutes. Elon Musk has already announced shutting down USAID, next on their anvil is the education department.
Though DOGE has understandably many staff, four to five youngsters have gained prominence as they made those acrimonious visits to government offices. According to bureaucrats, all of them are youngsters aged between 19 to 25 years.
What is DOGE clock?
DOGE has created a digital tracker that aims to monitor the amount of taxpayers' dollars that the departments saved. On Saturday, it showed the savings as $36.73 billion which is 1.8 per cent of their goal of two trillion that has to be achieved within 511 days.
