In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

Donald Trump’s recently acquired buddy Elon Musk seems to have developed the idea of a sort of cartoon superhero agency designed to destroy the Deep State–or maybe it was just a joke, suggests Decrypt’s Liz Napolitano.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who's leading the new Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk, has a message to federal workers: "Come back five days a week from 8am to 6pm."Why it matters: Ramaswamy's comments,

Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead Trump's Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk. Learn more about his family, education, career and net worth.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will soon lead a new non-governmental agency that President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with stripping billions of dollars from the U.S. government. And these U.S. oligarchs will be explaining their efforts in a new podcast, according to a video posted by Ramaswamy late Wednesday.

Follow updates on Trump’s cabinet and staff picks. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of what President-elect Donald J. Trump has called the Department of Government Efficiency, said on Wednesday that they supported requiring federal employees to work from the office five days a week as part of a broad overhaul of the civil service.