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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are starting a podcast — or “Dogecast” — to keep Americans updated on their progress running President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The powerful pair will use it to provide regular updates on their goal of cutting government spending by as much as $2 million, with DOGE hoping to complete its mission by July 4, 2026.
“Elon and I are going to start a separate track of ‘Dogecasts’ that explain exactly what we’re doing to the public to provide transparency on what is a once-in-a-generation project,” Ramaswamy said in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel on Wednesday.
“We want to bring the public along with us. To lift the curtain, to take us behind the scenes of what that waste, fraud and abuse in government looks like,” he continued. “However bad you think it is, it’s probably worse.”
Musk commented on the announcement on X, adding that the weekly podcast would also have guests.
Ramaswamy said in his video that he’d put his current podcast, “Truth,” on hold while working for DOGE.
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is a cost-cutting advisory board and not technically a federal department.
Its name is inspired by the Dogecoin cryptocurrency and memes.
The two co-heads of DOGE have teased “mass reductions” in areas of the federal government they deem “bloated.”
While campaigning for Trump, Musk suggested that the government could reduce its roughly $6.75 trillion budget by about $2 trillion, an amount that exceeds all discretionary spending including the military — about $1.6 trillion in fiscal year 2024.
Most government spending is considered mandatory and includes items like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on debt.
