The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

"Vermin were not a problem” at the the U.S. Institute of Peace before Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency took over the building.

Despite Musk’s stated departure from DOGE (and attempts to talk up his focus on his businesses), sources tell Wired that DOGE-related efforts across federal agencies are “escalating.” President Trump confirmed on Friday that Musk’s “really not leaving,

President Donald Trump 's administration suffered a legal blow on Friday when an appeals court refused to halt an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of California that blocked sweeping federal employment cuts overseen by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The singer and humanitarian schooled the podcaster on the real world impact of his billionaire friend's DOGE cuts, while Musk fires back on social media.

Obama-appointed federal judge Tanya Chutkan dismisses Trump as defendant but allows challenge pertaining to Elon Musk's DOGE work to continue.

DOGE, led by Elon Musk was established in Trump’s second stint as the president with the aim of ending the “tyranny of bureaucracy’ and reducing the US national debt that stands at $36 trillion.

About four months after resigning from the federal agency Trump rebranded as the U.S. DOGE Service, this NJ resident won local office by 49 votes.