内容摘要：Among them was Andy Gatherer, an ex-Royal Navy marine engineer, who served in the Falklands War.

Among them was Andy Gatherer, an ex-Royal Navy marine engineer, who served in the Falklands War.

He said Musk and Ramaswamy would work with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to tackle "massive waste and fraud" in $6.5tn (£5.1tn) of annual government spending.Trump has likened the new initiative to the Manhattan Project, a top-secret World War Two programme to develop the first nuclear weapons.

The president-elect said Musk and Ramaswamy would complete their work no later than 4 July (American Independence Day) 2026.The organisation's name refers to Musk's preferred cryptocurrency - which was itself jokingly in 2013 named after an internet meme. Dogecoin has soared in value over the past week.In business, Musk has become known for his opposition to perceived government overregulation and his approach to cost-cutting - most notably after he took over Twitter, which he rebranded X and laid off thousands of staff.

Musk, who also founded SpaceX and Tesla, recently called for at least $2tn in cuts to US federal spending, nearly a third of the government's budget, without offering specifics. He has also proposed eliminating hundreds of federal agencies, arguing that many of them have overlapping areas of responsibility.In a press release from Trump's campaign, Musk said: “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people."

After the announcement, Musk posted on X: “Threat to democracy? Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!”

Ramaswamy reposted Trump's announcement on social media saying "we will not go gently". He also said he was withdrawing from consideration to fill incoming US Vice-President JD Vance’s soon-to-be-vacated Ohio Senate seat.for jokes on American late night television. But its mission is no laughing matter.

“Safeguarding the president-elect is a top priority,” said Anthony Guglielmi, US Secret Service chief of communications, in a statement to the BBC.In the months leading up to the US presidential election, Trump was the target of two apparent assassination attempts. The first took place at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and the other occurred at the Mar-a-Lago golf course in September.

Citing “concern for operational security,” the Secret Service declined to answer the BBC’s specific questions about the use of robotic dogs in Trump’s security detail, including when the agency began deploying the device at his primary residence.Boston Dynamics also declined to answer specific questions, although it confirmed the Secret Service was deploying its Spot robot.