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DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE is a presidential advisory commission in the Execitive Offices of the White House. DOGE wants to cut up to $2 trillion in annual spending.[1]
Background
Within hours of taking office on 20 January, 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the United States Digital Service (USDS) created in 2014 by Barack Obama to the United States DOGE Service (USDS).[2]
Elon Musk
Both Elon Musk and Donald Trump have suggested that Musk could hold a seat in Trump's cabinet if he's reelected - namely through a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Vivek Ramaswamy, "the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on “a real-time basis.” (See: Vivek Ramaswamy teases ‘mass reductions’ under new DOGE – and expects certain agencies will be ‘deleted outright’, New York Post, 2024).
Articles:
- How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true: He wants $2trn in cuts. We found nearly $5trn, The Economist, 2024
- Elon Musk says at a New York Trump rally that he could save the country $2 trillion through a department of efficiency, Business Insider, 2024
- Trump says he’d create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk, Associated Press, 2024
Elon Musk and DOGE eyeing $120 billion in cuts on federal government diversity spending
- Elon Musk and DOGE eyeing $120 billion in cuts on federal government diversity spending, Independent, 2024
References
- ↑ Elon Musk and DOGE eyeing $120 billion in cuts on federal government diversity spending, Independent, 2024
- ↑ With the massive failure of the Obamacare website when it was launched in 2014, President Barack Obama created the United States Digital Service (USDS) tasked with improving the technological abilities of all federal agencies. In 2025 the United States Department of Justice revealed in a court filing: "Since its creation in 2014 by President Obama, the United States Digital Service ("USDS") has worked with agencies across the Executive Branch to, among other things, improve the federal government’s information technology and data organization systems...That mandate was recently revived through an Executive Order issued by President Trump, which redesignated USDS as the U.S. DOGE Service". [1]