‘That doesn’t ex’: Trump’s DOGE, earlier led Elon Musk, reportedly disbanded ahead of schedule | World News

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped the adminration to lead DOGE. (File Photo)

US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly been disbanded the federal adminration about eight months ahead of its schedule, ending a campaign which was launched as a symbol of Trump’s vow to cut the government’s size, but the critics have said that it delivered few measurable savings, Reuters reported.

When asked news agency Reuters earlier this month about the status of DOGE, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor said, “That doesn’t ex.” In the first public remark the Trump adminration regarding the end of DOGE, Kupor said it is no longer a “centralized entity”.

The department to slash the federal government’s size was created an executive order signed President Trump on his first day in office after returning to the White House and the statement the personnel management director confirmed the longstanding suspicions that DOGE was on its way out.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped the adminration to lead DOGE and it was expected that the agency would drive “large scale structural reform” through July 2026.

In February, Musk had said, “We are actually trying to be as transparent as possible. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization,” but refused to acknowledge that DOGE agents refused to identify themselves in several cases.

DOGE made extensive forays into several departments across Washington in the first few months of Trump’s second term and triggered a swift shrink in federal agencies, slashed their budgets and even redirected their work to Trump priorities. Many of DOGE’s functions have since been taken over Office of Personnel Management, the human resource department of the federal government.

However, Trump adminration officials have refrained from publicly stating that DOGE doesn’t ex anymore, even after Musk’s public feud with Trump in May. Musk left Washington since his feud with Trump.

(with inputs from Reuters)