President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

President Ronald Reagan created the efficiency-minded Grace Commission in 1982, promising that it would “drain the swamp.” President Bill Clinton established the National Partnership for Reinventing Government in 1993 with the goal of making the government “work better, cost less, and get results Americans care about,” keeping it active until 1998.

Musk has spent days bounding in and out of meetings, sitting in on phone calls, weighing resumes and traveling to Washington as Trump’s unofficial co-president.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that "the Great Elon Musk," who has zero experience running the federal government, and "anti-woke" Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE.

Musk's role "creates the appearance of corruption, and increases the chances that such corruption will take place," according to a public policy expert.

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Elon Musk for a role in government cost-cutting, as part of his drive to "dismantle" bureaucracy when he returns to the White House next year. Tech billionaire Musk,

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, will be taking on an official role to try to help President-elect Donald Trump make government more efficient. It will add yet another responsibility to an ever-growing to-do list for the increasingly distracted CEO and business leader.

The MSNBC anchor also pointed out the "funniest" part of the president-elect's press release about the billionaire's new role.