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It was almost two years ago when candidate Donald Trump delivered a new campaign pledge: If elected to a second term, the Republican said, he would appoint Elon Musk to lead some kind of government \u201cefficiency\u201d panel.<\/p>\n

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To hear Trump tell it, the endeavor was going to work miracles. The Musk-led commission, he boasted, would save taxpayers \u201ctrillions of dollars\u201d and implement \u201can action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a variety of reasons, none of this made any sense, but in early 2025, the Republican White House followed through and launched the Department of Government Efficiency, though the charter came with an expiration date of sorts: DOGE would cease to be on July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n

In other words, in the wake of Independence Day, DOGE is no more.<\/p>\n

Politico reported shortly before its formal demise:<\/p>\n

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DOGE claims it saved $215 billion, or $1,335.40 per taxpayer, with its cuts, which included slashing duplicative software licenses, canceling diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, grants as well as ending leases for underused office space. That\u2019s a pittance to the federal budget, which is now about $7 trillion each year. The effort faded relatively early too as tech mogul Elon Musk clashed with government officials and left DOGE in May last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For now, let\u2019s not dwell on the chasm between $215 billion and the \u201ctrillions of dollars\u201d in savings Trump promised. Let\u2019s instead emphasize the separate fact that cutting $215 billion in federal spending isn\u2019t an inherently good thing, since much of that spending was worthwhile and beneficial to the public.<\/p>\n

As The New Republic recently summarized, \u201cDOGE\u2019s legacy is both very stupid and very sad: It decimated the federal workforce, including Social Security personnel at local offices, and made it easier for hackers to access your data. The agency tore apart USAID, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives lost globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indeed, the damage DOGE did made people\u2019s lives worse, both in the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n

But as observers assess DOGE\u2019s legacy, it\u2019s worth recognizing what this endeavor was at its core: a failed experiment.<\/p>\n

The president told Americans that he would bring in the planet\u2019s wealthiest billionaire, who would apply his unique private sector perspective to overhaul the executive branch. The result would be trillions of dollars in savings and the total elimination of waste and fraud in federal spending. The whole endeavor, we were assured, would be awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Except it wasn\u2019t. Amid all the hype and tumult, it\u2019s easy to lose sight of DOGE\u2019s original remit: Trump tasked Musk and his team with leading an effort to cut spending and make the federal government more efficient. As the department expires, the facts show that government spending went up, not down, during Musk\u2019s tenure, and that the DOGE endeavor made the government less efficient, not more.<\/p>\n

Even the \u201csavings\u201d that the office touted proved illusory, misleading or both.<\/p>\n

DOGE\u2019s goals went unmet. Its promises went unfulfilled. It envisioned one set of results but delivered the opposite.<\/p>\n

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Good riddance.<\/p>\n

This post updates our related earlier coverage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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