One former DOGE worker is going public and sharing what he learned. Special Series Planet Money. A former DOGE employee gives his account of working for the operation. June 20, 2025 5:02 AM ET.

DOGE has "led to poor services, a brain drain on our federal government, and it’s going to cost taxpayers money long term," Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) argued.

Under DOGE's instruction, the SSA made significant changes, including a 7,000-job workforce reduction and a new anti-fraud system.

EXCLUSIVE: The Senate’s DOGE leader is rolling out a series of budget proposals crowdsourced from across the waste-cutting caucus to add to the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

DOGE reports federal non-defense obligations decreased by 22.4% compared to 2024, while multiple agencies including HHS, IRS and FDA start rehiring workers cut during efficiency measures.

For example, multibillionaire CEO Elon Musk, a driving force at DOGE, had incorrectly claimed that SSA is making payments to millions of dead people. His claim appeared to be based on the so ...

Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.

The DOGE 100-plus come from a variety of professions: 29 were executive managers, 28 were engineers, 16 were investors and 12 came from legal backgrounds. A scattered few others previously worked ...

Here's what we know about DOGE's direction in a post-Musk White House: Trump says DOGE will keep going minus Musk. In the aftermath of their fallout, Trump signaled that he's ready to move on from ...

While Elon Musk spent several months this year wreaking incalculable havoc across the federal government, he took a special interest in the Social Security Administration, where, thanks to DOGE ...

DOGE staffers are becoming “far more institutionalized” within government agencies, said Russell T. Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, during an ...

DOGE stimulus check talks caught Americans' attention, but progress on the dividend seems to have stalled. Here's what to know and who would get one.