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.”

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.

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.