The department wouldn't be a department at all, but an outside group that can likely only make suggestions — unless Trump tries to axe current laws.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head an effort, dubbed DOGE, to reduce wasteful federal spending. Here's what it's about.

The world's richest man seems to love this silly meme, so much so that he's gone and named a state department after it. So how did this history between Musk and Doge evolve? Let's take a look.