MaddowBlog-The White House's failed DOGE experiment ends with a whimper, not a bang

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The Department of Government Efficiency was hyped as a governmental game changer. Its doors are now closing as a pitiful failure.

The White House’s failed DOGE experiment ends with a whimper, not a bang
The Department of Government Efficiency was hyped as a governmental game changer. Its doors are now closing as a pitiful failure.
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The quasi-governmental DOGE operation, however, didn’t quite reach its first birthday. Reuters reported:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings. ‘That doesn’t exist,’ Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE’s status

According to the Reuters report, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, Kupor went on to say that the department is no longer a “centralized entity.”

To be sure, the office had an impact. As The New Republic summarized, “DOGE’s legacy is both very stupid and very sad: It decimated the federal workforce, including Social Security personnel at local offices, and made it easier for hackers to access your data. The agency tore apart USAID, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives lost globally.”....

Even the “savings” the office touted proved illusory, misleading or both.

DOGE’s goals went unmet. Its promises went unfulfilled. It envisioned one set of results but delivered the opposite.

Good riddance.

[Blues Heron]

1. Not good riddance, charge and prosecute, convict and jail the murderers starting with murderer musk

[AZJonnie]

2. That's assuming you judge it by it's STATED intent

Judged by it's ACTUAL intent, it may have been quite successful.

I think the actual intents were 1) a massive data heist, and b) fucking up as much of the government up as possible by decimating the number of people who work for it.

We don't know how successful the first bit was, and the second bit, well, they did fuck a lot of the government up and decimate the employee counts.