The effects of Doge’s initial blitz through the federal government – which included dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), embedding staffers in almost every agency and illegally firing people en masse – are still playing out. Contrary to Musk’s promises, Doge’s success is vague and tough to quantify. Measuring the full impact and determining whether the agency even exists as a centralized entity anymore is difficult, complicated by an ongoing effort from the government to block disclosure of documents, which is itself a symptom of the chaos that the department created.
Although the disarray and destruction left by Doge is evident across the globe, we still do not really know exactly how the agency operated and its true effects. Instead, humanitarian aid organizations are still trying to assess the extent of the damage that Doge created while ethics watchdogs have launched lawsuits trying to compel more transparency out of the government.
“I know it feels like all this happened over the course of several years, but the first year of this administration isn’t even done,” said Nikhel Sus, the deputy chief counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew). “We still want to know what happened, and we still want the record to be out there, because the public is entitled to this information.”
Outside of the US, Doge’s cuts to USAID have also caused months of turmoil in countries around the world as humanitarian organizations struggle to make up for lost funding and calculate whether they can continue their operations at all. Thousands of aid workers have lost their jobs, testing for diseases such as HIV/Aids has drastically declined and researchers have warned there could be around 14 million excess deaths across the globe in the next five years if the US fails to restore aid funding. Yet because of the nature of Doge’s cuts, non-profits including the International Aids Society (IAS) say that it’s hard to pin down the exact numbers of people who are affected.
Put backdoors in government systems for Musk corporations and foreign adversaries to exploit. Provide Musk with a cache of any government data he wants, including the personal financial records for every US taxpayer.
they scraped all government data.
and illegally circumvent congress to cut programs listed in Project 2025
And did serious damage to the same organizations that have oversight over his companies.
Not going to forget what doge did because of articles like this.
Slashed as many oversight programs as they could, caused havoc with mass federal firings when we needed to be hiring instead, hurt international relations by shutting down USaid programs.
Most importantly, doge saw to the end of every federal investigation into Musk’s crimes or those of his companies, and harvested financial data from the treasury on every single American for them to feed into their “control the world” AI models.
What doge did was grotesque, and Elon should be facing charges of treason for being the ringleader. Nazi prick.
Most importantly, doge saw to the end of every federal investigation into Musk’s crimes or those of his companies, and harvested financial data from the treasury on every single American for them to feed into their “control the world” AI models.
This sounds highly plausible. Have the details of each part of this been documented somewhere?
Yeah you can find documentation of all this, but of course you won’t find it from corporate-owned media.
I learned most of this from watching ongoing coverage of these acts from independent media like dropsite news or The Young Turks over the past year.
If you prefer more traditional/formal sources, EPI’s probably a good one: EPI Reporting on DOGE corruption
The traitor nazi’s child minions had complete and total access to destroy the evidence and logs of their high crimes against America, thanks to the access granted to them by the demented pedophile “president” and his handlers.
Just another nail in the coffin of American freedom.
The goal of DOGE was to terminate thousands of employees so they could use that money to hire ICE gestapo criminals. Their second goal was to nuke any agency that would stand in the way of tRump. The third was to nuke agencies launching investigation. Fourth, agencies with oversight. The fifth goal was to ransack their database and steal personal and sellable data. Lastly, Musk wanted the Institute for Peace building for himself but courts blocked the theft.
Targeted everything that regulates his companies while turning children loose everywhere else to make it look confusing…
It fucked everything up. It’s the details that are sketchy at present.
That was the point…
If he just went after what he wanted, then when we could fix shit we’d be fixing what he wants broken.
He burnt a proverbial hospital down so he could rob an orphanage, instead of just robbing an orphanage
It nuked a bunch of investigations and prosecutions against Elon Musk companies, for one thing…
Does he? Do they?
Didn’t it get people to forget his manipulation of DOGE meme coin by calling it the same thing? Didn’t it also allow him access to everyone’s personal information? Just asking questions here.
Steal data. Steal personal information. If you know everything from everyone, you can always blackmail anyone that’s against your regime.
I don’t understand what exactly is going on, but it seems really weird to me that Kash Patel is moving the FBI HQ into the building that was previously occupied by USAID before the DOGE sledgehammer.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fbi-closing-headquarters-j-edgar-hoover-building-kash-patel-announces
I remember there was some kind of a controversy with members of DOGE showing up to USAID and demanding access to sensitive information about individuals in other countries who were working undercover with the U.S.
Again, no idea what the full story is, but definitely seems like a bit concerning, considering the Trump administration’s unusual level of friendliness with countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Edit: so fucking weird
In an email sent to certain employees and obtained by Fortune, USAID’s Acting Executive Secretary, Erica Carr, asked staff to shred and burn classified documents and personnel documents cleared from the agency’s headquarters.
She told staff to meet at USAID HQ from 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday for the daylong event.
“Shred as many documents first and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” Carr said in the email. “If you need to use the burn bags, do not overfill, and ensure the burn bag can be closed with staples at the top.”
She added that burn bags should be labeled with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/(B/IO)” in a dark marker
One former USAID worker, whose identity is known to Fortune, said documents may still be preserved electronically, adding that the loss of the Ronald Reagan Building, the USAID headquarters, meant there was limited space to safely store hard copies.
Btw IO is the Bureau of International Organization Affairs
The IO is charged with developing and implementing the policies of the U.S. government with respect to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies, as well as within certain other international organizations. The Bureau of International Organization Affairs was created in order to strengthen the United States involvement in important international relations.
