With Tesla CEO Elon Musk no longer in charge, the Department of Government Efficiency’s aggressive actions to slash the federal workforce and wasteful spending have fallen into the background of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Musk left DOGE in late May after a chaotic tenure that featured multiple lawsuits, literal clashes between some agency workers and law enforcement, tensions among Cabinet members, and questions about whether billions of dollars of fraud had actually been slashed.

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