Mercurial CEO Elon Musk has made a big deal out of being put in charge of a "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE, promising to excise $2 trillion from the country's federal budget without elaborating how he plans to do just that.

While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.