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(NewsNation) — Much similar the Trump administration, the Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE, has shaken up the governmental satellite successful its archetypal 100 days.
President Trump initially tapped Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to pb DOGE, but some person since stepped back, with Ramaswamy removing himself altogether successful January.
The section has made cuts to assorted authorities agencies, which followed Trump's promises during his statesmanlike campaign.
What cuts did DOGE make?
According to the DOGE website, it has saved an estimated $160 billion, equating to $993.79 saved per taxpayer, astatine the clip of writing. However, critics person argued that the savings are overmuch little than claimed.
Per its "Agency Efficiency Leaderboard," DOGE has saved the astir successful the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, the Department of Education, the Department of Labor and the Office of Personnel Management.
DOGE has made cuts crossed a raft of agencies, including nationalist parks and community work programs, while some, specified as Yellowstone, stay unaffected.
Thousands of HHS employees were laid off, resulting successful a suspension of a beverage prime investigating program.
DOGE has floated the thought of stimulus checks for Americans acknowledgment to the reported savings made by the department; however, that could beryllium immoderate clip down the line.
It besides shuttered USAID, though a federal justice ruled successful March that DOGE apt utilized unconstitutional authorization successful doing so.
In U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang’s ruling, DOGE was ordered to reinstate strategy and email entree to USAID employees and ruled successful favour of contiguous and erstwhile USAID workers to “delay a premature, last shutdown” amid litigation.
Various probe grants person been culled, including a $699,000 assistance for Ohio State researchers examining cannabis usage among LGBTQ+ women.
Per the Associated Press, astir $900 cardinal successful cuts were made from a national probe bureau that tracked the advancement of America’s students.
What happened to Musk?
Musk said past week helium would beryllium mostly decreasing his engagement with DOGE to walk much clip focusing connected Tesla.
The car institution announced a 71% driblet successful first-quarter profits connected Apr. 22, which followed backlash, unit and protests implicit Musk's relation successful the Trump administration.
“Starting astir apt successful the adjacent month, May, my clip allocation to DOGE volition driblet significantly,” Musk said connected the investments telephone past week.
“So I deliberation I’ll proceed to walk a time oregon 2 per week connected authorities matters for arsenic agelong arsenic the president would similar maine to bash so," helium added.
May 30 is the end of Musk’s "special authorities employee" status, and dozens of Democratic lawmakers called connected Trump earlier this period to corroborate Musk volition permission his relation successful the medication by that date.
