DOGE

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] DOGE was originally founded within the Executive offices of the White House with a staff of 20. On February 7, 2025 President Trump gave DOGE chief Elon Musk authority to add an extra 45 staff, recruited from Musk's various tech businesses.

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 âmass reductionsâ in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on âa real-time basis.â (See: Vivek Ramaswamy teases âmass reductionsâ under new DOGE â and expects certain agencies will be âdeleted outrightâ, New York Post, 2024).

Articles:

How to make Elon Muskâs 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 heâd create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk, Associated Press, 2024

Trump says Musk could head 'government efficiency' force, BBC, 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

â Elon Musk and DOGE eyeing $120 billion in cuts on federal government diversity spending, Independent, 2024
â 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 governmentâs 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]

External link

The DOGE Files

[1] â Elon Musk and DOGE eyeing $120 billion in cuts on federal government diversity spending, Independent, 2024

[2] â 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 governmentâs 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]

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