Gray checkmarks are usually reserved for official government accounts. The Department of Government Efficiency will operate outside the government.

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

But the structure of the so-called “department” may allow Musk and his co-chair, Vivek Ramaswamy, to evade some ethics requirements.