Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's

aides with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have

spoken with staffers at more than a dozen federal agencies to

begin preliminary interviews, The Washington Post reported on

Friday.

The agencies include the Treasury Department, the Internal

Revenue Service, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Health

and Human Services, the newspaper said, citing four people

familiar with the matter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential

candidate Vivek Ramaswamy are in charge of the department, which

intends to dismantle bureaucracy, cut regulations and

restructure agencies.

Musk and Ramaswamy have stepped up hiring for DOGE, with

more than 50 staffers already started working out of the offices

of SpaceX, which Musk owns, The Washington Post reported. DOGE

aims to have close to 100 staffers in place by Trump's

inauguration on Jan. 20, according to the report.

Steve Davis, the president of Musk's tunneling enterprise

the Boring Company, is helping to oversee the entire effort and

Emil Michael, a former Uber executive, is one of the people

overseeing the effort to cut regulations, the newspaper said.