{"id":400515,"date":"2025-11-24T03:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400515\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:56:22","slug":"doge-has-quietly-ceased-to-exist-well-ahead-of-schedule-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400515\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE has quietly ceased to exist well ahead of schedule, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Government Efficiency plowed through federal spending and payrolls earlier this year, but it has since disappeared with top officials now working in other federal offices, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DOGE, which was once led by Elon Musk, had previously made controversial cuts, such as its high-profile effort to slash foreign aid. By contrast, its end slipped under the radar and came with eight months still left on its charter, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters when asked about DOGE\u2019s status, adding that it\u2019s no longer a \u201ccentralized entity.\u201d<\/p>\n

OPM has assumed many of DOGE\u2019s functions, according to Kupor and\u00a0documents<\/a>reviewed<\/a>\u00a0by Reuters. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS<\/a>. 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. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM<\/a> and @WHOMB<\/a> will institutionalize them!\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>, referring to his office and the White House budget office.<\/p>\n

In a blog post on Friday<\/a> detailing federal headcount plans, he said the government hired roughly 68,000 people this year, while 317,000 employees left the government\u2014outperforming Trump\u2019s goal for four reductions for every one new hire.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cthere are no prescribed reductions in headcount.\u201d And rather than the number of full-time employees, the focus instead is on \u201cgreat service delivery with maximum efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DOGE officials have taken positions elsewhere in the federal government, such as the State Department, White House budget office, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Naval Research, Reuters said.<\/p>\n

That includes Airbnb<\/a> cofounder Joe Gebbia, who went from DOGE to the National Design Studio, a new office where he will help beautify government websites.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Musk, who vowed to cut spending by $2 trillion and declared in February that DOGE is \u201cthe chainsaw for bureaucracy.\u201d <\/p>\n

After serving as one of Trump\u2019s closest advisers, the Tesla<\/a> CEO engaged in a stunning public feud with the president in June over his tax-and-spending bill.<\/p>\n

It appeared Musk would be out in the cold for good, but he has recently re-entered Trump\u2019s orbit. In September, they appeared together at Charlie Kirk\u2019s memorial service<\/a>. And earlier this month, Musk\u00a0attended a White House dinner\u00a0for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. <\/p>\n

For its part, DOGE still has a website that tallies its cost-reduction efforts<\/a> and claims $214 billion in savings. But a Politico analysis of DOGE\u2019s data<\/a> this summer found that its numbers are greatly exaggerated by using the maximum spending possible under each contract as its baseline.<\/p>\n

And the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit that focuses on the federal workforce, said DOGE\u2019s cuts also incur related costs, resulting in minimal net savings.<\/p>\n

Those costs don\u2019t include legal expenses for fighting multiple\u00a0lawsuits challenging DOGE\u2019s cuts or the lost tax revenue from IRS staff layoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an effort that was created to address waste, but we were seeing the opposite,\u201d PPS President Max Stier told CBS<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Government Efficiency plowed through federal spending and payrolls earlier this year, but it has since…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[16470,66,2142,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-400515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-doge","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-federal-government","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115602666200071447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}