Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — the duo that President-elect Donald Trump tapped for the effort known as the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) — have indicated they plan to examine funding for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

“We need to take a hard look at the U.S. government’s funding of ‘nongovernmental organizations,'” Ramaswamy noted in an article on goes deeper: Americans deserve transparency on opaque foreign affairs. aid and nonprofit groups that support our own border crisis.

Musk agreed, commenting: “Absolutely.”

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE). (Getty Images)

He also agreed with his brother Kimbal Musk, who suggested that NGOs are the “mouthpieces” of governments that “need to go.”

“NGOs are the government’s way of creating spokespeople who promote its agenda and push for censorship without the normal checks and balances that the government must follow. They need to go,” Kimbal Musk said in a tweet.

“Yes,” Elon Musk replied.

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Musk and Ramaswamy noted in a Wall Street Journal article last month, they “will act as outside volunteers, not as federal officials or employees.”

Trump said in a statement that DOGE “will provide advice and guidance from outside government, and partner with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to pursue large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach of government never seen before. “

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Vivek Ramaswamy encourages voters to support then-candidate Trump during a campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, January 22, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Musk said in a recent article: “Less government means more power to the people.”