DOGE Loses Its Bite as Elon Musk Steps Back From Role
- The DOGE caucus, led by Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Representative Aaron Bean, aims to identify government waste, yet so far, no efficiency improvements have been reported.
- Elon Musk has retreated from the government spotlight due to clashes with the Trump administration and poor public opinion.
- Concerns about staffing and safety at the National Nuclear Security Administration have grown, especially as the agency faces pressures to modernize the U.S. Nuclear arsenal amidst ongoing staffing issues.
- Experts warn that understaffing and management changes could delay nuclear warhead production, presenting safety risks, according to Joyce Connery and others.
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Elon Musk Says Congress Needs to Act on DOGE’s Savings Goal
Tesla CEO and presidential adviser Elon Musk said the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has no power to initiate major government spending cuts and that Congress needs to act. “I am certainly an adviser. I don’t have formal power, and that’s it. The president can choose to accept my advice or not. And that’s how it goes,” he said during remarks at an economic forum in Qatar on Tuesday. Musk reiterated that DOGE has limited power to make…
DOGE loses its bite as Elon Musk steps back from role
The chainsaw ethos of President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting department is giving way to a more methodical, and modest, operation as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the group’s de facto head, steps back from the national spotlight. Musk, tapped to lead Trump’s…
DOGE loses its bite as Elon Musk steps back
The chainsaw ethos of President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting department is giving way to a more methodical, and modest, operation as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the group’s de facto head, steps back from the national spotlight. Musk, tapped to lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, barreled into Washington in January with few constraints and a mandate to slash $2 trillion in spending. His staffers, a hodgepodge of young programmers and long-t…
Musk Steps Back as DOGE Pushes Ahead with Cuts and Agency Overhauls
Digital Operations Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is an initiative that has come together very quickly. All of this change has been achieved since the abrupt departure of its founder, Elon Musk. Musk first envisioned DOGE as a way to advance strategic goals. Its primary purpose is to streamline government functions, particularly in the areas of immigration enforcement and fraud prevention. DOGE is having an exciting ripple effect across DOT’s, …
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