Elon Musk's DOGE begins mass hiring spree - but there's a huge catch

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy person started hiring for their recently formed Department of Government Efficiency, but applicants indispensable beryllium subscribed to X to taxable their resumes.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped the Tesla CEO and erstwhile Republican statesmanlike campaigner duo to tally the newly-created department dubbed DOGE connected Tuesday.

Trump said DOGE the duo volition 'dismantle' the $6.5 trillion national government by co-leading the 'Manhattan Project of our time.'

The section announced connected X - owned by Musk - that they are hiring squad members.

One of the requirements for applicants is to wage for a premium rank to the level truthful they tin taxable their resumes.

'We are precise grateful to the thousands of Americans who person expressed involvement successful helping america astatine DOGE. We don’t request much part-time thought generators,' DOGE said.

'If that’s you, DM this relationship with your CV. Elon & Vivek volition reappraisal the apical 1% of applicants.'

Users indispensable wage for a verified X relationship to nonstop messages to DOGE. The premium level membership, which costs $84 annually, gives users a verified account.

It is unclear if determination are immoderate circumstantial acquisition oregon enactment requirements indispensable for the job.

'We request ace high-IQ small-government revolutionaries consenting to enactment 80+ hours per week connected unglamorous cost-cutting,' the station said.

It is besides chartless however overmuch the occupation volition wage - oregon wherever backing for the section volition travel from.

'Indeed, this volition beryllium tedious work, marque tons of enemies & compensation is zero. What a large deal,' Musk said successful a abstracted post.  

Trump sparked a wide meltdown Tuesday nighttime by telling Musk to slash billions successful authorities waste.

The president-elect said helium hopes to recapture the tone of J. Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, which saw the archetypal atomic weapons developed successful conscionable 3 years betwixt 1942 and 1945. 

That effort yielded the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped connected Hiroshima and Nagasaki successful Japan, starring to an extremity to the Second World War. 

Musk jumped connected X to pledge to slash hundreds of agencies from the national government. 

Which agencies Musk planned to chopped were unclear but helium emphasized the slashing was not a 'threat to democracy' but a 'threat to bureaucracy' - adding that helium would beryllium unfastened to suggestions. 

Dogecoin - a likewise named cryptocurrency favored by Musk - surged to its highest worth successful much than 3 years successful the aftermath of the statesmanlike election.

The crypto token originally refers to a viral representation of a Shiba Inu dog, fashionable online from 2010. It was intended to marque amusive of different cryptos arsenic Bitcoin came to the fore, but grew successful popularity - and adjacent went connected to sponsor a shot squad successful the UK.

It is not wide wherefore Musk took involvement successful the currency, but helium has continued to marque notation to the meme successful posts connected X, which helium bought successful October 2022.