While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.

Both men have voiced ambitious ideas for how to use their new powers, whatever they may turn out to be. Musk boasted that DOGE, a reference to his favored cryptocurrency Dogecoin, will send "shockwaves through the system,