I'm excited for the future. President Trump was elected with a decisive margin, a mandate,

not just for incremental change, but sweeping change. And I'm looking forward to being a part of it.

He's changed history with his creativity and how he's

thinking about this new administration, his second term. And one of the things that we're doing

differently is the, as you've probably heard, the newly created Department of Government

Efficiency, Doge, which I'll have the honor of co-leading with Elon Musk. This is, I think,

the Manhattan Project of our time, hopefully.

We are going to take aim at the overgrown fourth branch of government and finally restore self-governance

in America again, where the people we elect to run the government, once again become the ones

who actually run the government, and in the process, take care of massive cost overruns,

massive federal spending in a way that's really never happened in our generation.

Politicians have talked about it for a long time.

It hasn't happened.

And that's what we're doing things differently.

Elon and I, we're not politicians, we're businessmen.

We're not going in as government bureaucrats or even employees. We're outside volunteers.

And perhaps most importantly, we have set a finite expiry date on this project. We don't want Doge to exist forever.

To the contrary, we want this to end and the need for it to end by July 4th, 2026, which is appropriate.

That's the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.

And I can think of no better gift to this country than a downsized government that would make

our founding fathers proud.

And that's what we hope to help play a role in delivering for them.

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