Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency, was at the White House for Trump’s signing of an executive order directing federal employees to comply with DOGE as it seeks to cut the size of the government’s workforce.
The executive order, signed on Tuesday, implements DOGE’s so-called “workforce optimization initiative” and underscores Trump and Musk’s plans to drastically reduce the $300 billion the federal government spends on its 2.4 million employees, excluding active-duty military, United States Postal Service personnel, and money for pension programs, after the expiration of the president’s Day One hiring freeze.
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