Posted on 11/24/2025 8:20:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
DoGE has been DoGE’d. The once fearsome government efficiency office has been shut down eight months before its contract officially ends in July 2026. What was supposed to be an organization that exploded traditional ways of running the federal government has turned into a damp squib.
It was established by President Trump on the first day of his second term in office. Headed by Tesla chief Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (who resigned early on to run for Ohio governor), it struck the kind of fear into government bureaucrats that a visit from the Red Guards might instill during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Musk’s minions rampaged through government offices, whether it was the US Institute of Peace or the Wilson Center. The idea was that the bastions of the liberal establishment would not simply be purged but permanently abolished.
Now, as Reuters reports, the efficiency office has been disbanded. “That doesn’t exist” as a “centralized entity” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor said. Hasta la vista, in other words. After Musk torched, or appeared to torch, his relationship with Trump in May, DoGE began to sputter. The Trump administration is trying to put the best face possible on its dissolution. On social media Kupor declared, “”DoGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS,” Kupor said, referring to the United States Digital Service, which was reorganized into DoGE. “But, the principles of DoGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc.”
Yeah, right. The truth is that a government-wide freeze on hiring is over and the federal deficit has reached a record $38 trillion in the past month. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will add over $3 trillion to the deficit and that the deficit for fiscal year 2025 will run $1.8 trillion. The only mitigating factor has been a de facto tax hike by Trump who has imposed punitive tariffs.
If the debt remains, so does the insalubrious legacy of DoGE. One is the agencies that it either denuded or shuttered during its brief but chaotic existence. Take the Kennan Institute, which was formerly housed in the Wilson Center on the Washington Mall. I recently visited its new headquarters on K Street – a one-room office. The institute will make a comeback, but demolishing the Wilson Center was symbolic of DoGE’s march of folly through Washington.
Another inadvertent legacy of DoGE is actually diametrically opposed to its mandate – the expansion of big government in the form of National Guard troops stationed in a variety of American cities. When DoGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Corisine was attacked by ten juveniles near DC’s Dupont Circle in early August, Trump responded by stationing the National Guard in Washington and other cities. But this initiative, too, appears to be ebbing as Trump refrains from sending in troops to New York City and a federal judge blocks his deployment of the National Guard in Washington.
As he focuses on becoming the world’s first trillionaire, Musk, who attended the White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, appears to have put the entire episode in the rearview mirror. Once upon a time he called himself the president’s “first buddy.” Then came the feud with Trump. Now the reconciliation?
Anybody too stupid to know the difference between debt and deficit shouldn’t be writing articles. This clown used the terms interchangeably.
Rat Judges mobilized and went a long way to crush their efforts.
this author is writing about shit he doesn’t even understand
As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/S1pSmx26s0— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 24, 2025
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter https://t.co/Ku9U9Lf94E https://t.co/Ku9U9Lf94E— Reuters (@Reuters) November 23, 2025
Concur..... it’s so deep.... hip-waders are of little use.
The current tactic appears to be, now that “divisions in MAGA” turned out to be foreign accounts sowing discord, to throw as much BS out at once, faster than it can be corrected, to demoralize everyone.
DOGE hasn’t been shut down. They just announced $375 million more in contract cuts
- Nick Sortor
This was fake news by Rooters
I should have read all the comments before posting
Thanks
$335 million
My bad
“This clown used the terms interchangeably.”
“They are interchangeable. The debt is the total amount of money the U.S. government owes. It represents the accumulation of past deficits, minus surpluses.”
https://www.pgpf.org/article/debt-vs-deficits-whats-the-difference/
So one creates the other.
wy69
THANK YOU!
Fake news indeed.
bookmark.
The PDJT White House (1st or 2nd term) has yet to propose a balanced budget, no reason not to do it...the White House budgets are just non-binding “proposals”. At the very least put one out there and make the Dems cry some more.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/
At this rate the president isn’t going to come within miles and miles of his 2016 suggestion that “...he would be able to get rid of the debt ($19 trillion then) “over a period of eight years.””.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/can-donald-trump-pay-national-debt-8-years
DOGE was an early attack force until the permanent Cabinet leaders could be installed. Anyone who isn’t aware of the reductions across all branches is asleep.
Many years ago I interviewed the local congressman Leon Panetta. I was a news director for a little radio station in the district. Anyway, I asked Panetta that very question, to explain the difference between the deficit and the debt for the listeners at home. The man raised his voice and kinda exploded. I forgot what he answered but I was rather taken aback at his demeanor.
The inadvertent legacies of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative of the second Trump administration led by Elon Musk, include a significant expansion of National Guard deployments in U.S. cities and a potential long-term shift toward a more institutionalized, but less public, approach to government cuts.
Expansion of Government Power
Despite its mandate to shrink the government, one of DOGE’s key inadvertent legacies was the expansion of government power in certain areas:
National Guard Deployment: A physical altercation involving a DOGE staffer near Dupont Circle in Washington D.C. prompted President Trump to station the National Guard in Washington and other cities, an expansion of federal presence in local jurisdictions.
Expansion of Executive Authority: Some critics argued that the entire DOGE project was a mechanism to wrest spending powers from Congress and concentrate them in the executive branch, an inadvertent consequence of its aggressive tactics.
Fake news!
I heard the real story.
Elon led DODE and trained them up.
They pulled data for a baseline. They figured out, for instance, USAID was 100% corrupt and not accountable
Lessons were learned.
DODGE workers are assigned to small teams, 2 - 4 people, and sent to specific departmarts to continue their work
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