The administration’s DOGE office has become inactive several months ahead of schedule as the White House assesses less complicated routes through which federal divisions may be shuttered.
The Department of Government Efficiency, which was established by executive decree to advance President Donald Trump’s expense-reduction mandate, has practically stopped functioning eight months prior to the date its official charter was due to lapse.
The unit has been dissolved as a “centralized organization,” with the administration’s head of human resources verifying its dormant condition, even though eight months were remaining on its tenure, as was reported by Reuters on Sunday.
This development occurs concurrently with the Trump administration considering a novel regulation that would simplify the process of closing down offices and eliminating entire initiatives, as was revealed by the news agency’s investigations last week.
The proposed blueprint would empower agencies to dismiss personnel without assessing either professional performance or duration of service when an entire division is discontinued, a change that, according to one federal employment legal expert, would be utilized by officials to selectively abolish offices and programs to which they are opposed.
A Brief History of Dogecoin
Mere days after prevailing in the 2024 presidential elections, the then president-elect Trump commented that the entity’s goal was articulated as being to “eliminate superfluous regulations, reduce extravagant spending, and reconfigure Federal Agencies.”
Frequently connected to the affluent entrepreneur Elon Musk, the department garnered the crypto community’s notice because its initialism was identical to the DOGE meme coin that had been repeatedly championed by him.
That congruence fostered public speculation of a link, even though the agency’s official mandate and organizational framework were entirely distinct from his previous Dogecoin references, as was observed.
At a certain juncture, shortly after the government division was inaugurated, the Dogecoin emblem was displayed on its official web page, causing the related cryptocurrency value to momentarily surge by 14.4%.
During that identical week, the department was reported to have initiated investigation into blockchain technology as a means to enhance clarity and ensure government functions and fiscal outlay were made more streamlined.
One month later, in February, a directive executed by Joshua Fisher, Director of the Office of Administration, reportedly corroborated that Musk was afforded no official power to enact governmental determinations concerning his involvement with DOGE.
Lawsuits — and More to Come
Within that identical month, a multi-state legal action was lodged in federal court, contending that the Trump administration illegally conferred extensive access to the Treasury’s protected federal payment infrastructure upon Elon Musk and DOGE members. This infrastructure manages Social Security payments, veterans’ stipends, Medicaid reimbursements, and other financial distributions intended for U.S. citizens, it was claimed.
The legal filing contended that DOGE employees lacking official Treasury functions were granted superior system access privileges that exposed immense quantities of personal and financial records. This occurrence, it was asserted, corresponded with Musk’s public demands to discontinue disbursements to initiatives that were opposed by the administration.
Intelligence indicating that Musk would depart DOGE was aligned with an appreciation in the value of Bitcoin and Tesla equities during the early part of April. By the following month of May, his exit from DOGE was confirmed by Musk himself.
That event was immediately succeeded by a highly-publicized disagreement in June involving Musk and Trump, during which the two previously allied individuals publicly attacked one another, exchanging communiqués that further obscured the administration’s official rhetoric concerning DOGE.
