What is the Department of Government Efficiency? Here's what to know about the Elon Musk-run agency.

DOGE claims to have already saved $55 billion in government cuts so far, but the figure has not been verified.

On the Monday, December 1, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Elon Musk’s DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, has been dismantled with eight months still left on its charter. USA TODAY ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is officially no more. It was less than a year old. DOGE, as it became known, hasn't been run by Musk for months. He left earlier this ...

To one member of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the last few months have been “crazy.” In a slideshow of photos and videos posted to Instagram last month, Yat Choi—who ...

In August, months after Elon Musk left the federal government, the director of the Office of Personnel Management offered the first hard estimate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s ...

Last week, while many of us were enjoying the last days of summer, a whistleblower disclosed shocking details indicating staffers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have been ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation that Elon Musk and President Trump used to target federal agencies has itself been dismantled. Reuters reported this week that the ...

Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the ...