Elon Musk may have left the Trump administration months ago, but his stink still lingers in just about every federal office building. The latest agency to get bogged down by the legacy of the Department of Government Efficiency is the Energy Information Administration (EIA). According to Bloomberg, the department missed the publishing time for the […]
White House Hopes to Save Elon From Testifying in DOGE Lawsuit
The Trump administration is attempting to shield its former DOGE czar, Elon Musk, from having to testify in a legal case involving his work for the “government efficiency” initiative. DOGE has been sued many times over the past year for its efforts to carve up the government, but one of the most longstanding litigation efforts […]
DOGE Laid Off the Humans. Now the IRS Is Deploying AI Agents
Months after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency stripped the Internal Revenue Service for parts and snagged as much taxpayer data as they could get their hands on, the agency is getting some support—just not from actual people. According to a report from Axios, the IRS is deploying AI agents for the first […]
Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed
Here’s a Mandela effect event that you probably thought was real: The Department of Government Efficiency, the pseudo-agency run by Elon Musk to cut “fraud, waste, and abuse” from federal operations, didn’t actually exist. At least, that is what Google’s AI Overview response will tell you if you search certain content related to DOGE’s operations. […]
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of paper that extended to 20 feet in length. It was a […]
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Reporting Highlights Errors: DOGE staffers exposed a sensitive U.S.-funded Afghanistan program and falsely suggested a contractor was involved in an off-books mission. Consequences: DOGE’s public outing led to a Taliban intelligence service […]
DOGE Has Wasted Billions While Saving Only a Fraction of What It Claims: Reports
The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has been a project largely defined by ever-diminishing expectations. At the outset of DOGE’s journey, its chief operator, Elon Musk, famously claimed, in a bout of wild optimism, that he hoped to cut “at least” $2 trillion out of the federal budget. Not long after the election, Musk […]
A Bug at Social Security Admin Has Been Rerouting Phone Calls to Random Offices
A technical issue at the Social Security Administration recently caused phone calls to various field offices to be routed to other offices that didn’t have jurisdiction over the claims, thus making service fulfillment difficult. On Tuesday, NPR reported that the agency’s field offices were having difficulties connecting callers to the proper staff who could fulfill […]
The White House Has a Plan for All That Foreign Food Aid That DOGE Cut: Burn It
After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency unleashed a barrage on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) earlier […]
White House Fears Elon Musk Is Still Pulling the Strings at DOGE
Elon Musk and the Trump administration parted ways a little over a month ago and, since then, the Tesla billionaire and the president have been locked in a war of words over Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which Musk views as harmful to his business interests. Despite Elon’s dramatic departure from the government, many of […]