Elon Announces His Unexpected Title at DOGE: Says ‘Hardly Glorious,’ But We Have to Have It

Fixing the basics is the first step to fixing government, Elon Musk wrote Monday in announcing his preferred title as he begins his work to repair the federal government.
Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are heading President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
In a post on X, Musk said the sad state of federal IT systems ensures inefficiency.

“The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud, waste or abuse!” he wrote.
“That’s why the government can’t pass basic audits. They often LITERALLY don’t know where your tax dollars went. It’s insane,” he wrote.

Musk said his title is nothing grand.

The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud …