Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire who has become a close advisor to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, surprised people with an unexpected crypto endorsement this week. Now, as traders bet that Trump will follow through with an outlandish plan to create a bitcoin strategic reserve and wipe out the U.

As US President-elect Donald Trump makes several choices to fill out his incoming administration’s Cabinet, the lobbying for key positions has been

Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.

ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to whip the American government into shape. On November 14th their newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it wants to hire “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” to get to work on cost-cutting.

President-elect Trump has announced Elon Musk will lead a new cost-cutting agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Democrats have raised “serious concern” over Musk’s companies having major contracts with the federal government.

While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.

Want to apply for a job at the new Department of Government Efficiency headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy? The process is selective and the pay is nonexistent, but the big-picture payoff could make getting involved worth it.