The owner of Tesla, Elon Musk, leads The Government Efficiency Department (Doge) Agency created by the administration of Donald Trump to reduce public spending and restructure government agencies where 120 hours per week work instead, of the 40 hours that the standard working day is.
This agency also seeks to benefit those who contribute the most in the United States through a unique remuneration of $ 5,000.
The government efficiency department has fired and suspended from employment and salary to thousands of public officials. Also One dismantled International Humanitarian Aid Agency.
Elon Musk defends the measures of Doge and requested Congress support to consolidate the actions of the department in American regulations. The owner of X also met with the Republican senators, ensuring that government efficiency department is working to trace the use of taxes and correct failures in the public administration.
Work without charging
In November 2024, the Government Efficiency Department launched a program known as the “super high-iq”, Which comes to say that people with a high intellectual coefficient should not receive remuneration for working.
“We need revolutionaries with a very high intellectual coefficient willing Work more than 80 hours per week in little glamorous cost cuts. Are economic policies seek to reduce government spending of the United States government. Musk also acknowledged that Doge work is “tedious, will generate many enemies and compensation will be zero.”
Doge impact on low -income households
The Doge Dividend program design has been criticized due to its exclusion from Americans with lower income. According to data from the PEW Research Center, Most people with adjusted gross income lower than $ 40,000 do not pay federal taxeswhich leaves them out of this benefit.
This policy contrasts with the previous economic stimuli, which sought to provide financial relief to the most vulnerable sectors of the population. Doge prioritizes those who already contribute significantly to the fiscal system
Source: Ambito
