“It’s the chainsaw of bureaucracy”declared Elon Musk at the beginning, in a memorable setting.
Except that everything didn’t go as well as planned. Although gigantic efforts were made at the beginning, it is clear that DOGE did not have the desired effect. Thus, Reuters tells us that the service has been dissolved since this summer, although it was supposed to be active until July 2026.
Musk admits that DOGE could have been “more efficient”
According to Jason Kupor, the device’s chief personnel officer, DOGE “no longer exists” as a centralized structure. It must be said that while DOGE boasted of having reduced spending by tens of billions of dollars, experts were never able to verify these figures because the unit did not provide a detailed public account of its work.
Donald Trump remains evasive
It should be noted that while the White House assures that “waste, fraud and abuse” will continue to be fought by the government, Donald Trump remains very evasive on the situation.
The American president has never officially announced the end of the program, even if he tends to talk about it in the past tense when he talks about it to journalists.
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Relocated employees…
As for the employees who worked within DOGE (with the obvious exception of Elon Musk who left the ship earlier following a quarrel with Trump), they don’t have too much to worry about. In fact, most of them have been resettled.
Thus, two joined a new structure created in August, the National Design Studio. The latter is led by Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, and aims to improve the appearance of government sites.
Reuters further specifies that Zachary Terrell is today director of technology within the Department of Health and Human Services and that Rachel Riley, another DOGE figure, is now director of the Office of Naval Research.
Jeremy Lewin, who helped Musk and the Trump administration dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), now oversees foreign aid at the State Department.
