Musk and Ramaswamy tout ‘Doge’ plan on Capitol Hill – how will it work?

Mike Johnson praised the two innovators', but their efficiency agency faces political and practical hurdles

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two technology billionaires with an anti-government axe to grind, aim to cut $500bn from the federal budget. They took to Capitol Hill on Thursday to explain their intentions to Republican lawmakers. But how, exactly, is the Department of Government Efficiency" supposed to work?

For starters, it is not actually a department of anything in the government.