In his quest to chop prices within the Federal Authorities, DOGE chief Elon Musk is deploying a ‘superpower’ that his enemies should not keen to make use of: a ‘hardcore’ work ethic with lengthy working hours, seven days per week.
Musk has bragged on X that the White Home’s Division of Authorities Effectivity he’s heading is placing in 120-hour work weeks.
It’s barely been two weeks because the Tesla and SpaceX founder took management of the brand new activity drive, working DOGE within the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing, with the purpose of slashing federal spending by as a lot as $1-2 trillion.
The New York Publish reported:
“’DOGE is working 120 hour[s] per week’, Musk wrote in a put up on X on Sunday. ‘Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours per week. That’s the reason they’re dropping so quick’.”
DOGE is working 120 hour per week. Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours per week. That’s the reason they’re dropping so quick. https://t.co/dXtrL5rj1K
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
That comes a day after the tech billionaire revealed that DOGE staffers had been working by the weekends.
“’Only a few within the forms really work the weekend, so it’s just like the opposing crew simply leaves the sector for two days! Working the weekend is a superpower’, Musk wrote, including a laughing emoji.”
Only a few within the forms really work the weekend, so it’s just like the opposing crew simply leaves the sector for two days!
Working the weekend is a superpower https://t.co/VgyBk1nJIO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025
That is the equal of over 17 hours of labor a day for DOGE workers.
Whereas it’s a grueling schedule, it’s additionally not a shock, since again in 2018 Musk claimed to work 120-hour weeks working Tesla, his EV maker.
He’s identified for encouraging his crew to work the identical lengthy hours.
“In 2022, when Musk accomplished his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, he demanded staffers decide to a ‘hardcore’ work life and put in ‘lengthy hours at excessive depth’ – or depart for one more firm.
The efficiency crackdown pushed greater than half of the corporate’s 4,000 staff to depart, opting as a substitute for 3 months of severance, in accordance with Enterprise Insider.”
DOGE has moved swiftly to close down Authorities operations accused of reckless spending.
Only a day President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, Musk tackled variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives throughout the federal authorities – shuttering the Chief Range Officers Government Council, the federal government workplace accountable for DEI and accessibility packages.
“Most not too long ago, staffers of the US Company for Worldwide Growth – a six-decade-old US assist and improvement company – had been advised to remain out of the crew’s Washington headquarters on Monday after Musk stated Trump agreed with him to shut the company.”
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