President-elect Donald Trump’s latest US department has not yet come to life but is already sparking the interest of a US ally within the Asia-Pacific region. The Japanese government shows great interest in how the latest US Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will function and the way its appointed head Tesla founder Elon Musk would bring the reforms that it promised.
Keen Interest In DOGE
Japanese minister for digital transformation Masaaki Taira expressed a keen interest within the Trump administration’s newly-established government efficiency department, saying it may very well be a great source of latest ideas to spur the Japanese economy on the right track again.
Taira said that the Japanese government would “closely follow” the approach that Musk would implement within the American government efficiency department to see what they will learn from it and integrate it with the executive reform efforts within the country.
Taira made the statement at the start of Japan’s “Autumn Review” on November 14 wherein state leaders are convened to judge the country’s programs and policies determining the direction by which the federal government would traverse in the longer term.
This 12 months’s Autumn Review will discuss nine national programs. It includes talks on the Japanese education ministry’s scholarships for foreign students and the state reconstruction agency’s subsidies that aim to revitalize the areas within the Fukushima Prefecture which were badly devastated by the March 2011 earthquake. The huge tremor crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant run by the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.
The ‘Ministry Of Government Efficiency’
In his address to the Autumn Review delegates, Taira revealed that he’s fascinated by copying the steps taken by the Trump administration to spice up government efficiency by creating DOGE and putting Musk as its head.
The Japanese minister expressed great interest in how the US government efficiency department would cut government spending, saying that he desires to implement similar reforms to the Japanese government.
He expected that Musk would implement “a reasonably drastic approach” to chop government spending within the US, adding that he would keep watch over the policies that the Tesla CEO would lay right down to execute DOGE’s mandate.
Trump Names Heads Of DOGE
Trump has recently appointed Musk and Roivant Sciences founder Vivek Ramaswamy to steer the federal government efficiency department.
The 2 incoming leaders of DOGE have already revealed their ambitious plan of downsizing the federal government workforce and reducing government.
Trump clarified that DOGE wouldn’t be an actual “department” just like the Department of Homeland Security, saying that establishing a latest government agency needs the approval of Congress.
He added that it might function as an “outside of presidency” advisory commission which might advise the federal government on tips on how to do “large-scale structural reform”.
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