{"id":25385,"date":"2024-11-13T04:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25385"},"modified":"2024-11-13T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:50:17","slug":"trump-appoints-musk-to-lead-government-efficiency-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/trump-appoints-musk-to-lead-government-efficiency-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appoints Musk to lead government efficiency in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Donald Trump has appointed SpaceX chief Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to head a newly formed government efficiency department as the president-elect rounds out his new cabinet with loyal allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"_1Rw6X\" data-testid=\"article-body-top\">\n<div class=\"_1ysFk\" data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>In a surprise appointment, Trump also said he would nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defence, giving the 44-year-old army veteran the job of leading America\u2019s military amid growing global uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The statements came amid a flurry of cabinet announcements.<\/p>\n<p>One week after his decisive election victory over Kamala Harris, Trump has asked South Dakota Governor\u00a0Kristi Noem to head the US Department of Homeland Security, placing her at the centre of his tough-on-immigration policy, reported AP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>Florida senator Marco Rubio is expected to be named secretary of state, making him the top diplomat to carry out Trump\u2019s foreign policy objectives, particularly when it\u00a0comes to China.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and firebrand libertarian conservative Ramaswamy \u201cwill pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies\u201d, Trump said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s acronym, DOGE, is a nod to Musk\u2019s favourite cryptocurrency, dogecoin. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy would work from outside the government to offer the White House \u201cadvice and guidance\u201d. It\u2019s not clear how the organisation will operate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump described Fox News Channel host Hegseth as \u201ctough, smart and a true believer in America First\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, 44, is a co-host of\u00a0<em>Fox &amp; Friends Weekend<\/em> and has been a contributor with the network since 2014, where he developed a friendship with Trump, who made regular appearances on the show. A fellow tough-on-China politician, Mike Waltz, has been named Trump\u2019s national security adviser, taking up the crucial post amid prolonged conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"vPaWe\" data-testid=\"article-body-bottom\">\n<div class=\"_1ysFk\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>The picks are emblematic of Trump\u2019s desire to rapidly round out his administration with loyal allies before Inauguration Day on January 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump said he would nominate former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel and ex-director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"_1lC_G\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has appointed SpaceX chief Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to head a newly formed government efficiency department as the president-elect rounds out his new cabinet with loyal allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,982,234,4,899,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-international","category-us","category-news_","category-trending","category-headline"],"views":57,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25389,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions\/25389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}