Overview
- Crew’s deputy chief counsel says DOGE “evaded transparency laws and evaded discovery requests,” and the group is seeking records of its operations under Elon Musk.
- Although the central DOGE office was reportedly closed after Musk’s exit in May, reporting and expert analysis describe DOGE operatives as still embedded across agencies with continuing influence.
- Musk has recently downplayed DOGE as only “a little bit successful” and signaled he likely would not run such an effort again, even as he revived unverified claims of massive federal fraud on social media.
- The Cato Institute praised DOGE for what it called the largest peacetime federal workforce reduction on record, while Brookings’ Elaine Kamarck argued the cuts “cut muscle, not fat” and had little effect on spending.
- A Newsday editorial urges formal investigations, citing a former Social Security Administration data official’s report that DOGE personnel had unprecedented access to sensitive citizen data without verified controls.