POLITICS: DOGE Is Dead — Long Live Washington Boondoggles!

POLITICS: DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles!

DOGE is done. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the “perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence.” But DOGE disbanded, Reuters reported last week, eight months before Trump’s deadline for what he hailed as a “Manhattan Project,” akin to the creati…

DOGE is Dead with Eight Months Left on its Charter

US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size.