How Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Reshaping the US Government
The Department of Government Efficiency started as an inside joke. It’s since enabled the world’s richest man to become the most powerful person in the country, after President Donald Trump. And yet the department-that’s-not-a-department remains something of an enigma.
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, you could look at the executive order that created it. That order set up the innocuous-sounding “US DOGE Service temporary organization” to modernize federal technology.
Or you can look at DOGE.gov, its official website, and look at the billions of dollars in contracts, grants and government leases it’s taking credit for canceling — fundamentally changing the size and shape of the federal government.