The “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.
“That doesn’t exist,” office of personnel management (OPM) director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about Doge’s status, adding that it was no longer a “centralized entity”.
The statement confirmed longstanding suspicions that Doge, created by an executive order that Donald Trump signed on his first day, was on its way out. The tech billionaire Elon Musk and the former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped to lead the effort and were expected to drive “large scale structural reform” through 24 July 2026.
Are you saying that they got cut for wasting government money?
The fact that the American public doesn’t care about this is pretty much what has allowed Trumpism to arise.
I care. I don’t know what I can do about it, but I care.
The United States was my grandpa and Doge was Microsoft on the phone asking him to give them access to his computer. He did. Every time.
What a great gig. Get paid in a contract (probably up front), cause lots of damage without any accountability, and then quit early.
Why would musk need it anymore? He got what he paid for.
It wasn’t a serious attempt at what it’s name suggests it might be about. It was just about destroying things some billionaires didn’t like.
It was also about getting their hands on sensitive government data.
This is it exactly. He just wanted to gut the agencies that were actively investigating him or were threatening to regulate his businesses. There was no altruistic motive behind any of it. He paid for the access he needed to destroy that infrastructure.
Wait… are you telling me that an agency named after a meme was fundamentally unserious??
Nah, it would be different if that was it
At least some of them legit thought they were helping, and everyone else was an idiot.
Huge changes were given ridiculous deadlines and zero guidance. A lot of that shit won’t kick in till new year, agencies are legally required to follow thru, there’s no off ramp.
A lot of basic shit no one thinks about is going to stop breaking, in addition to the shit they intentionally broke.
So can we get United States Digital Service back? You know the thing that was working just fine before it was renamed and broken?
