Elon Musk has shared his own disbelief that the government efficiency department Donald Trump tapped him to lead “is real.” The world’s richest man and SpaceX owner, who holds billions of dollars in government contracts through his companies, appeared to mock the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a post on X.

The department wouldn't be a department at all, but an outside group that can likely only make suggestions — unless Trump tries to axe current laws.

Elon Musk’s understanding of the so-called deep state comes off as rather shallow. The Tesla CEO reckons $2 trillion can be slashed from the U.S. bureaucracy, echoing decades of arm-waving over wasteful spending in Washington.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's closest Congressional counterpart will be Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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,

Musk—the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X (formerly Twitter)—was quoted in Trump's announcement as saying that DOGE "will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!"