Everything we know about Elon Musk's DOGE
The Department of Government Efficiency is not like other government agencies. Run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, DOGE is less than a month old.
The Department of Government Efficiency is not like other government agencies. Run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, the newly created DOGE is just getting started and operating with an unusual level of secrecy, power and reach.
Musk and his key lieutenants — many of whom appear to have no government experience — have thrown agencies into turmoil, rapidly trying to cut and reshape the federal bureaucracy despite questions about the legality of their efforts.
NBC News is working to track what DOGE is doing. Here is what we know so far.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to establish DOGE — a nod to an internet meme and cryptocurrency. In order to make it a real government agency without going through Congress, Trump renamed an existing agency — the U.S. Digital Service — as the U.S. DOGE Service, giving it an 18-month mission of “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”
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