The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is now the one on the chopping block in an ironic twist following the recent collapse of Trump and Musk’s friendship. With Musk and Trump publicly losing patience with one another,

With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team’s approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.

By creating DOGE, the Tesla billionaire became a heat shield for the Republican Party’s worst instincts. In his role as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk spent several months gleefully subjecting parts of the government he doesn’t like to an array of metaphorical power tools.