Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) want the US government to offer an “Apple store-like experience”. This new department, created by US President Donald Trump, wants to achieve this feat by streamlining operations and reducing inefficiencies. In a recent interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, along with seven other DOGE members, revealed the department’s “Apple Store” plan for the US government. They also discussed their goals to overhaul federal processes and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in this interview.
Elon Musk’s DOGE’s ‘Apple Store plan’ for US government
During the interview, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who has taken a role in DOGE, shared his plans to digitise the government’s retirement process. He said that the current system is an “injustice to civil servants.”
“This will be an online digital process that will take just a few days at most… it’s an injustice to civil servants who are subjected to these processes,” Gebbia noted.
Gebbia stated that the digitised retirement process will reduce it to just a few days for federal employees. He even highlighted that the current outdated system takes months to complete.
“There is a mine in Pennsylvania that houses every paper document for the retirement process in the government. This giant cave has 22,000 filing cabinets stacked 10 high to house 400 million pieces of paper,” he said, adding that the process started in the 1950s and largely has not changed in the last 70 years. We really believe that the government can have an Apple-like store experience. Beautifully designed, great user experience, modern systems,” Gebbia noted.
Apart from this, Musk said that DOGE aims to cut government spending by at least 15%, calling it “quite achievable.” Earlier, he warned that the nation’s debt is so high that interest payments surpass the military budget, making DOGE essential to avoid bankruptcy.
Following Trump’s directive to streamline operations within 18 months, the department has eliminated various DEI initiatives, consulting contracts, underused federal building leases, and redundant agencies and programs.
