With their staffs cut to as low as 1 person, agencies push back on DOGE

The DOGE Committee Has Become the Modern-Era HUAC

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.The circus came to Washington last week. Or as New Mexico’s Democratic Representative Melanie Stansbury called it, “the USA Fencing Subcommittee” of the DOGE Subcommittee of the Oversight Committee of Congress.The three-and-a-half-hour-long show was led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who perhaps fashioned herself the r…

What did we learn from DOGE?

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch critique the apparent wind down of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, highlighting its lack of transparency and failure to achieve meaningful spending cuts. They also analyze the GOP's new tax plan, which contradicts promises of fiscal responsibility by significantly increasing the deficit. Finally, the hosts defend classical l…

JUST IN: Trump Reveals DOGE's Next Leader For Post-Elon Era

President Donald Trump has tapped an old ally to take the reins at the U.S. Department of Governor Efficiency, which will soon be without its original leader. Elon Musk, who has been by Trump’s side since the two launched DOGE in the first hours of the administration, has announced he soon plans to depart the federal government and return to managing Tesla, the electric vehicle company he founded and which has suffered the brunt of protests and …

Nearly a dozen billboards pop up in Denver decrying DOGE cuts to national parks

DENVER (KDVR) — Almost a dozen billboards have popped up across Denver, advertising Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, but "Now with reduced staff." It's all part of a More Perfect Union campaign. The nonprofit pro-labor advocacy group is pushing to protect the resources dedicated to the U.S. national park system. Those resources include workers, who have been the target of the Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Elon Mu…

With their staffs cut to as low as 1 person, agencies push back on DOGE

After a frenzied start, cost-cutting and efficiency efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency have run up against public opinion and the courts.

More And More Questions Arise About The Supposed Efficiency Goals Of Musk's DOGE - CleanTechnica

Musk’s DOGE (“Department of Government Efficiency”) really has it all wrong. This group of non-federal employees insists that government waste is strangling the US economy, but the redistribution of funds isn’t actually making the US federal government more efficient — it’s benefiting the über wealthy with their insatiable appetite for ... [continued] The post More And More Questions Arise About The Supposed Efficiency Goals Of Musk’s DOGE appea…