Back Department of Government Efficiency Afrikaans وزارة كفاءة الحكومة Arabic Дэпартамент эфектыўнасці ўрада (ЗША) Byelorussian Úřad pro efektivitu vlády Czech Department of Government Efficiency Danish Department of Government Efficiency German Τμήμα Κυβερνητικής Αποτελεσματικότητας των ΗΠΑ (DOGE) Greek Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental Spanish وزارت کارآمدی دولت Persian Department of Government Efficiency Finnish

Department of Government Efficiency

"DOGE" redirects here. For the Internet meme, see Doge (meme). For other uses, see Doge (disambiguation).

Department of Government Efficiency
United States DOGE Service
PredecessorUnited States Digital Service
FormationJanuary 20, 2025 (2025-01-20)
TypeCross-departmental temporary organization
HeadquartersEisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Administrator
Amy Gleason (acting)[1]
Parent organization
Executive Office of the President
Budgetc. $40 million[2]
Websitedoge.gov

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)[a] is an initiative by the second Trump administration within the federal government of the United States. Its stated objective is to modernize information technology, maximize productivity,[4] and cut excess regulations and spending.[5] It emerged from discussions between Donald Trump and Elon Musk in 2024,[6] and was officially established by an executive order on January 20, 2025.

Members of DOGE have filled influential roles at federal agencies[7] that granted them enough control of information systems to terminate contracts from agencies targeted by Trump's executive orders,[8] with small businesses bearing the brunt of the cuts.[9] DOGE has facilitated mass layoffs and the dismantling of agencies and government funded organizations. It has also assisted with immigration crackdowns[10][11][12] and copied sensitive data from government databases.[13][14]

DOGE's status is unclear. Formerly designated as the U.S. Digital Service, USDS now abbreviates United States DOGE Service and comprises the United States DOGE Service Temporary Organization, scheduled to end on July 4, 2026.[15] Musk has said that DOGE is transparent,[16] while the Supreme Court has exempted it from disclosure.[17] DOGE's actions have been met with opposition and lawsuits.[18] Some critics have warned of a constitutional crisis,[19][20] while others have likened DOGE's actions to a coup.[21] The White House has claimed lawfulness.[22]

The role Musk had with DOGE is also unclear. The White House asserted he was senior advisor to the president,[23][24] denied he was making decisions,[25][26] and named Amy Gleason as acting administrator.[1] Trump insisted that Musk headed DOGE;[27] Theodore D. Chuang declared him de facto leader, likely needing Senate confirmation under the Appointments Clause.[28] In May, 2025, Musk announced plans to pivot away from DOGE;[29] he was working remotely around that time,[30] after compelling federal employee's return to office.[31][32] Musk left Washington on May 30, soon after his offboarding,[33][34] along with lieutenant Steve Davis, top adviser Katie Miller, and general counsel James Burnham.[33] Trump had maintained his support for Musk[35] until they clashed on June 5 over the Big Beautiful Bill. His administration reiterated its pledge to the DOGE objective,[36] and Russell Vought testified that DOGE was being "far more institutionalized".[37]

As of June 29, 2025, DOGE has claimed to have saved $190 billion,[38] although other government entities have estimated it to have cost the government $21.7 billion instead[39][40]. Another independent analysis estimated that DOGE cuts will cost taxpayers $135 billion;[41] the Internal Revenue Service predicted more than $500 billion in revenue loss due to "DOGE-driven" cuts.[42] Journalists found billions of dollars in miscounting.[43][44] According to critics, DOGE redefined fraud to target federal employees and programs to build political support;[45] budget experts said DOGE cuts were driven more by political ideology than frugality.[46] Musk, DOGE, and the Trump administration have made multiple claims of having discovered significant fraud, many of which have not held up under scrutiny.[47][48][49] As of May 30, 2025 DOGE cuts to foreign aid programs have led to an estimated 300,000 deaths, mostly of children.[50]

  1. ^ a b Ingram, David (February 25, 2025). "DOGE has a new 'acting administrator,' but Elon Musk is still in charge". NBC News. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
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  3. ^ "WATCH:Trump and Elon Musk double down on DOGE and cutting "wasteful spending"". LiveNow from Fox. February 11, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2025 – via YouTube. today it's Doge and I'm going to ask Elon to tell you a little bit about it (0m40s)
  4. ^ "Establishing and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency"". Federal Register. January 29, 2025. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  5. ^ Picchi, Aimee (November 14, 2024). "What to know about Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy". CBS News. Retrieved May 22, 2025. Trump announced the DOGE in a statement on Tuesday, describing it as an effort to "slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."
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  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference rift-with-DOGE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Ostroff, Caitlin; Shifflett, Shane; Benedict, James. "DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 5, 2025. Retrieved March 13, 2025.
  9. ^ Mehan, Archisha (April 25, 2025). "Tracking Terminations Under DOGE: An Update". GovSpend. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
  10. ^ Kelly, Makena; Elliott, Vittoria (April 18, 2025). "DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants". Wired. Archived from the original on April 22, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  11. ^ Bogage, Jacob; Natanson, Hannah (April 29, 2025). "USPS law enforcement assists Trump 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 30, 2025. The postal involvement is the latest push by the Trump administration to repurpose federal agencies and their data in a bid to boost immigration enforcement. Within the past month, the U.S. DOGE Service, Trump's government efficiency office, has won permission to access sensitive immigration case data at the Justice Department, sought Medicare claims data to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement find the addresses of undocumented immigrants, and initiated efforts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to locate and evict immigrants from public housing.
  12. ^ "ICE is using an app to identify people who can easily be deported – then arrest them". The Independent. June 11, 2025. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  13. ^ Barrett, Brian (April 18, 2025). "DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up". Wired. Archived from the original on April 23, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2025. A deal [DOGE] recently signed with the Department of Homeland Security provides sensitive information about undocumented immigrants [...] DOGE representatives across government agencies—from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Social Security Administration—are putting data that is normally cordoned off in service of identifying undocumented immigrants [...] DOGE has gained access to sensitive data about immigrants and farm workers. [A] whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board claims that staffers observed spikes in data leaving the agency after DOGE got access to its systems, with destinations unknown.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference DOGE-knows-a-lot was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Henderson, Kay (November 7, 2024). "Trump's 'Great American Fair' idea on Iowa State Fairgrounds recirculates". Radio Iowa. Archived from the original on November 13, 2024. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  16. ^ Lowell, Hugo (February 12, 2025). "Elon Musk appears with Trump and tries to claim 'Doge' team is transparent". The Guardian.
  17. ^ Chung, Andrew (June 6, 2025). "US Supreme Court keeps DOGE records blocked in watchdog group's challenge". Reuters. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  18. ^ Peters, Adele (February 5, 2025). "What will it take to stop Elon Musk and DOGE?". Fast Company. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  19. ^ Chait, Jonathan (February 4, 2025). "The Constitutional Crisis Is Here". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 4, 2025. Retrieved March 12, 2025. And so, although a handful of conservative intellectuals, including the budget wonk Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute and the law professor and former Bush-administration lawyer Jack Goldsmith, have described Musk's ambitions as unconstitutional, most of the establishment right has cheered him on or stayed quiet. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina conceded that Musk's project might not be strictly constitutional, but told the news site NOTUS that "nobody should bellyache about that."
  20. ^ Raul, Alan Charles. "DOGE is unconstitutional. Here's why". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 12, 2025. Retrieved March 13, 2025. The DOGE process, if that is what it is, mocks two basic tenets of our government: that we are nation of laws, not men and that it is Congress which controls spending and passes legislation. The president must faithfully execute Congress's laws and manage the executive agencies consistent with the Constitution and lawmakers' appropriations — not by any divine right or absolute power.
  21. ^ Peoples, Steve; Riccardi, Nicholas (February 4, 2025). "Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk". AP News. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  22. ^ Jacobson, Louis (February 8, 2025). "Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to close US government agencies?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved February 10, 2025.
  23. ^ Charalambous, Peter (February 17, 2025). "Contradictory statements about Musk make it unclear who runs DOGE". ABC News. In his role as senior advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.
  24. ^ Falconer, Rebecca (February 18, 2025). "Musk is not a DOGE employee and "has no actual or formal authority," White House says". Axios. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  25. ^ Siddiqui, Faiz; Allison, Natalie (February 18, 2025). "Who's running DOGE? The White House says it's not Elon Musk". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 20, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  26. ^ Whitehurst, Lindsay (February 18, 2025). "White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president". Associated Press News. Retrieved February 22, 2025. The Trump administration [...] says Musk is not a DOGE employee and has "no actual authority to make government decisions himself"
  27. ^ Habeshian, Sareen (March 5, 2025). "Trump praises Musk's DOGE cuts in address to Congress". Axios. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  28. ^ Tanis, Fatma (March 18, 2025). "A federal judge says the USAID shutdown likely violated the Constitution". NPR. Retrieved April 28, 2025. In a 68-page opinion Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, wrote that "the Court finds that Defendants' actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID Officer, likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."
  29. ^ Swan, Jonathan; Haberman, Maggie; Nehamas, Nicholas; Schleifer, Theodore; Fahrenthold, David A. (April 23, 2025). "A Subdued Musk Backs Away From Washington, but His Project Remains". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
  30. ^ "Elon Musk is no longer working from the White House, Susie Wiles reveals". The Independent. April 30, 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  31. ^ Luhby, Tami (November 24, 2024). "What to know about federal employees working from home as DOGE looks to end remote work". CNN. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  32. ^ Tarabay, Jamie (February 24, 2025). "Musk Vows to Suspend Federal Workers Who Don't Return to Office". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
  33. ^ a b "Elon Musk leaving DOGE, but he'll continue to advise Trump, White House says". CBS News. May 29, 2025. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  34. ^ "Elon Musk officially leaves the White House". NBC News. May 28, 2025. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  35. ^ "Trump says he will buy a Tesla to show 'confidence and support' for Musk". PBS News. March 11, 2025. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
  36. ^ Siddiqui, Faiz; Natanson, Hannah; Zakrzewski, Cat; Horton, Alex; Dwoskin, Elizabeth (June 8, 2025). "A diminished DOGE reels from the departure of the 'Dogefather,' Elon Musk". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  37. ^ Conger (June 7, 2025). "After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out. But DOGE Is Just Getting Started". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  38. ^ "DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency". DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  39. ^ "The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work". The Washington Post. July 31, 2025. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on July 31, 2025. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  40. ^ "The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Squandered by DOGE | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut". July 31, 2025. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  41. ^ "DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says". CBS News. April 25, 2025. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
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  43. ^ Tartar, Andre (February 19, 2025). "DOGE says it's saved $55 billion, itemized data show far less". Fortune.
  44. ^ Fowler, Stephen (February 19, 2025). "DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up". NPR.
  45. ^ Diamond, Dan; Siddiqui, Faiz (March 7, 2025). "DOGE redefines 'fraud' to defend cutting federal employees, programs". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on March 7, 2025. Retrieved March 8, 2025. But independent watchdogs and outside analysts say Trump and Musk are using overly broad claims of fraud to build political support for sweeping cuts to programs and offices.
  46. ^ Cite error: The named reference DOGE-cuts-ideology was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  47. ^ Murray, Conor (February 19, 2025). "Here Are The Biggest DOGE Hoaxes And Inaccuracies—As $8 Million Canceled ICE Contract Listed At $8 Billion". Forbes.
  48. ^ Timm, Jane C. (February 19, 2025). "Big swings, big misses: DOGE struggles to back up its outsized claims". NBC News.
  49. ^ Hodges, Lauren (June 5, 2025). "Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'". NPR. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  50. ^ Ensor, Josie (May 30, 2025). "Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children". New York. Archived from the original on May 30, 2025. Retrieved July 26, 2025.


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