When the Drug Enforcement Administration marked its 50th anniversary last year, it had spent over $1 trillion partly to enforce Richard Nixon's 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the cornerstone of his War on Drugs,

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have a new target in their war to make the government more efficient — daylight savings time. The world’s richest person, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, took to X to push for the measure.

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead Trump's Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk. Learn more about his family, education, career and net worth.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will soon lead a new non-governmental agency that President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with stripping billions of dollars from the U.S. government. And these U.S. oligarchs will be explaining their efforts in a new podcast, according to a video posted by Ramaswamy late Wednesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will host Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leads of the newly established “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), at the Capitol on Dec. 5, he announced Thursday.