Overview

• Federal agencies received an internal DOGE email instructing them to resume standard Notice of Funding Opportunity procedures effective immediately.
• A White House statement affirmed that DOGE personnel remain embedded at agencies to help secretaries reduce waste, fraud, and abuse while leaving final funding decisions to agency leadership.
• Earlier this year DOGE had routed all grant proposals through its own mailbox on grants.gov, triggering backlog delays and accusations of illegal impoundment from critics.
• Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has decentralized DOGE leadership by positioning its employees as in-house consultants within federal agencies following Elon Musk’s departure.
• Independent audits and court challenges have questioned DOGE’s claimed savings, with external estimates at about $180 billion and many Musk-era initiatives paused or overturned.