Students on UMN Campus Generally Oppose Elon Musk's Oversight of DOGE Government Layoffs
Zach Lebowitz, Hubbard school of journalism and mass communications. Elon Musk's new advisory body the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has laid off thousands of federal government employees , while cutting the budgets of a number of government agencies under President Donald Trump's administration. DOGE is not an official government department established by congress. Trump created DOGE via an executive order, which allowed Musk to lead the elimination of government expenses he thinks are unnecessary and waste taxpayer money. Leo Thayer, 17, a high school senior taking classes at the university of Minnesota, from Madison Wisconsin, said he disagrees with Musk's position in government because he was not democratically elected. "I believe that all officials in the government should be elected by the people, or at least by the people who are elected by the people," Thayer said. "There's a lot of problems with the system that he could get in even ...