https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump's pledge to slash the government's size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings."That doesn't exist," Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE's status.It is no longer a "centralized entity," Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration on the end of DOGE.The agency, set up in January, made dramatic forays across Washington in the early months of Trump's second term to rapidly shrink federal agencies, cut their budgets or redirect their work to Trump priorities. The OPM, the federal government's human resources office, has since taken over many of DOGE's functions, according to Kupor and documents reviewed by Reuters.At least two prominent DOGE employees are now involved with the National Design Studio, a new body created through an executive order signed by Trump in August. That body is headed by Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, and Trump's order directed him to beautify government websites.Gebbia was part of billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE team while DOGE employee Edward Coristine, nicknamed “Big Balls,” encouraged followers on his X account to apply to join.
The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on social media. Musk, who led DOGE initially, regularly touted its work on his X platform and at one point brandished a chainsaw to advertise his efforts to cut government jobs."This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy," Musk said, holding the tool above his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in February.DOGE claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work."President Trump was given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government, and he continues to actively deliver on that commitment," said White House spokeswoman Liz Huston in an email to Reuters.TRUMP OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN SIGNALING DOGE'S DEMISETrump administration officials have not openly said that DOGE no longer exists, even after Musk's public feud with Trump in May. Musk has since left Washington.Trump and his team have nevertheless signaled its demise in public since this summer, even though the U.S. president signed an executive order earlier in his term decreeing that DOGE would last through July 2026.In statements to reporters, Trump often talks about DOGE in the past tense. Acting DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason, whose background is in healthcare tech, formally became an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy in March, according to a court filing, opens new tab, in addition to her role with DOGE. Her public statements have largely focused on her HHS role.
Republican-led states, including Idaho and Florida, meanwhile, are creating local entities similar to DOGE.A government-wide hiring freeze - another hallmark of DOGE - is also over, Kupor said.Trump on his first day in office barred federal agencies from bringing on new employees, with exceptions for positions his team deemed necessary to enforce immigration laws and protect public safety. He later said DOGE representatives must approve any other exceptions, adding that agencies should hire "no more than one employee for every four" that depart."There is no target around reductions" anymore, Kupor said.FORMER DOGE EMPLOYEES MOVE ON TO NEW ROLESDOGE staff have also taken on other roles in the administration. Most prominent is Gebbia, whom Trump tasked with improving the “visual presentation” of government websites.So far, his design studio has launched websites to recruit law enforcement officers to patrol Washington, D.C., and advertise the president's drug pricing program. Gebbia declined an interview with Reuters via a spokesperson.Zachary Terrell, part of the DOGE team given access to government health systems in the early days of Trump's second term, is now chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. Rachel Riley, who had the same access according to court filings, is now chief of the Office of Naval Research, according to the office’s website.
Jeremy Lewin, who helped Musk and the Trump administration dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, now oversees foreign assistance at the State Department, according to the agency's website.Musk shortly after Trump’s election said he had a mandate to “delete the mountain” of government regulations. He made undoing government regulations and remaking the government with AI two key tenets of DOGE, in addition to eliminating federal government jobs.The administration is still working toward slashing regulations. The White House budget office has tasked Scott Langmack, who was DOGE’s representative at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with creating custom AI applications to pore through U.S. regulations and determine which ones to eliminate, according to his LinkedIn profile.Musk, meanwhile, has reappeared in Washington. This week, he attended a White House dinner for Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Where are the celebrations? There should be a parade.
they saved so much money for the country. I am a proud American on this day. Thank you for your service, Mr. Musk.
>>1459578>DOGE disbandedGood
>>1459578God knows how much data they took or where they sent it. There needs to be a full scale investigation with absolutely no holds barred.
>>1459714with our current DoJ? sure, Jan
>>1459578A fond farewell to Elon and his Musk'ateers.You tried, and Dems and their terrorists funded by corporations fully invested in stealing tax dollars hated it. So you were on target.A shame the liggerals tried to destroy your business with literal terrorism.
>>1459778Where do you people get this shit from?
>>1459779It's what I'd do if I was a Demomafioso.And of course who can forget the Tesla firebombings?
>>1459578This shit is gonna be remembered as one of the most embarrassing governmental failures in history. Leaving aside all the effects of cutting foreign aide, the facts remains this went in with the mission of cutting 1 trillion, got caught repeatedly exaggerating their numbers on their own site, wound up performing mass federal firings that turned out to be either invalid on their own or so actively harmful they had to scramble to rehire them, with both options causing millions in payments to people who did no work, and finally ended 8 months early with the debt higher than it was when they started with estimates putting it as potentially resulting in the government losing more money then they saved.
>>1459780Everyone but you forgot about the Tesla firebombings.
>>1459786But you have to careThe richest man in America lost some cars in a protestYOU HAVE TO CARE
>>1459794Less concerned about the cars, more concerned about the terrorism.
>>1459786No. I don't think they did, especially people who drive Teslas.>>1459794But you seem to forget the corpo foot soldiers attacking privately owned Teslas, because you're a terrorist sympathizer.Y
>>1459797>>1459798Who is supposed to believe this billionaire sponsored narrative?
>>1459800Let the whiny pussies complain they were a scared because people in another country burned unsold cars in another country
>>1459820https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tesla_vandalismI don't know what country you were in, but this was an international incident of political terrorism primarily in the US, but also in parts of the EU.
>>1459800>Muh, CNN, MSNBC, Colbert, Kimmel, Paramount opinions couldn't possibly be the product of billionaires.>I fukkin love communism, brought to you by McDonalds
>>1459823>cable networks nobody watchedOk boomer
>>1459825>I saw an SNL skit about this, and here's how they handled itEven if, you still have to explain why they echo lefterrorists opinions.
>>1459831What's an SNL, grandpa?
>>1459835It's a Smokey New Land-Yacht brought to you by liggeral terrorists.
>>1459658true, they stopped so much money wastefully going to israel
That fagnut cost us billions of dollars and grifted at least as much for his personal enrichment. Then he lectures the middle class and the poor.Is anyone taking notes?
>>1460051Source?
>>1460071Google it retardhttps://files.catbox.moe/d9lohj.png
>>1460051>Cost us billionsMaybe if billions to gay muppets in the middle east and hundreds of millions for gender studies in Africa is "us"
>>1460072I did. The best I can find is 'marginal savings only totaling hundred of billions and that's a bad thing'
>>1460077>Saved hundreds of billions>Also cost us hundreds of billions
>>1460090Define "us" here.Keeping in mind I don't work for the government.
>>145957824 hours until DOGE exists again and Reuters isn't held accountable for false reporting again.
>>1460077No you didn't>Yes, the independent analyses and news reports indicate that the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative may have cost the government more to implement than it saved in verifiable cuts.
>>1460112Go back to work, Elon
Takes it off the dog meme. What an utter failure though.
