DOGE ends with a whimper as Elon Musk's chainsaw for bureaucracy goes back on the shelf, hardly used

DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ and disbands with eight months left on its charter

 

... “That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE’s status.

It is no longer a “centralized entity,” Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration on the end of DOGE. ...

A government-wide hiring freeze - another hallmark of DOGE - is also over, Kupor said. ... “There is no target around reductions” anymore, Kupor said. ...