DOGE is dead, but the damage is still with us. Here’s a look back at some of its most egregious moves

It’s official: DOGE, the Trump administration’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” has met an early end.

Even before Trump took office, DOGE was conceived of as an outside advisory board that would recommend government reforms and find $500 billion in annual spending to cut.

The day after Trump was inaugurated, the department was officially founded, with Elon Musk—CEO of Tesla and the world’s richest man—at its helm.

Within the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, DOGE played a central role in cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs, nixing funds to foreign food aid and medical research, overhauling longtime government cybersecurity systems, targeting federal DEI programs for elimination, and more.

But it seems like DOGE’s fate was ultimately to burn bright and fizzle out. After Mu