Overview

• The Senate Homeland Security PSI staff report shows DOGE spent $14.8 billion on deferred resignation payouts for 154,000 employees and $6.1 billion on severance for roughly 100,000 involuntary firings in six months.
• Independent audits have repeatedly pared back DOGE’s touted savings from its initial $1 trillion waste-reduction goal to net fiscal losses.
• A Yale Budget Lab study warns that cuts to IRS enforcement under DOGE could cost between $395 billion and $2.4 trillion in lost tax revenue over the next decade.
• Employment and budget experts call the heavy use of paid leave and buyouts to trim federal payrolls both unprecedented and counterproductive.
• Sen. Richard Blumenthal and other lawmakers are pressing for full reviews of DOGE amid concerns over transparency, conflicts of interest and long-term budget risks.