Trump’s DOGE Is Dead and We Won’t Miss It
It was there during a bad time, not long: the US Department of Government Effectiveness, or DOGE, was officially dissolved.
The questionable department run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, which laid off dozens of workers and gutted parts of the federal government, has fallen into obscurity, according to a Reuters exclusive.
When Reuters reporters asked about the department, which had moved to cut government spending but failed to deliver on its promises while creating chaos among the federal workforce, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor said, “There’s no such thing.”
DOGE is no longer a “centralized entity,” he added.
The Trump administration has been signaling the end of DOGE since the summer, according to the report, and the president typically speaks about it in the past tense. Many DOGE staff members have since found employment elsewhere in government, such as Acting DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason, who is now an official advisor to RFK Jr. at the Department of Health and Human Services.
DOGE’s legacy is both very stupid and very sad: it decimated the federal workforce, including Social Security staff in field offices, and made it easier for hackers to access your data. The agency destroyed USAID, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. And all this for projected savings – numbers that got smaller and less ambitious every time Musk mentioned them.
Although DOGE may disappear into a fever dream of Trump’s first 100 days, its effects – and the suffering it has inflicted – will be felt for a long time.
