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.

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

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    translation: they are deeply embedded throughout the government now. please stop worrying about our coup

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      Musk squashed any ongoing investigations into his companies as well, and they undoubtedly swiped a lot of critical data on every single person alive in the USA.

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    Or, they got done stealing the data far earlier than expected and laid everyone off for their hard work.