On Monday, March 31, US President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would be shutting down. Elon Musk, who currently heads DOGE, may have to return to running his companies full-time.
On Monday, March 31, US President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would be shutting down. Elon Musk, who currently heads DOGE, may have to return to running his companies full-time.
«I would keep him as long as I can. He’s a very talented guy, you know, I like very smart people, and he’s very smart, and he’s done a good job,» Donald Trump said during a White House signing ceremony of an executive order calling for increased vetting of concert ticket sellers, WioNews writes .
He also added, when asked if DOGE would operate in Musk’s absence, that he believes the leaders of his federal agencies have «learned a lot,» including how to do their jobs independently. The US president added that some will want to keep DOGE employees on board.
The DOGE Department was created on January 20, 2025, as a temporary organization created in the United States to optimize the work of the federal government and reduce government spending. Its name is a reference to the popular Internet meme and cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which is actively supported by billionaire Elon Musk. Information about the appointment to the department of Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk and millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who was nominated for president in the Republican primaries, appeared back in November 2024. Details about what Musk should do in the new US government efficiency department and what functions the institution, designed to reduce government spending by $2 trillion, will have, can be found at the link.
According to CNN tracker, at least 113,000 federal employees have been laid off from the department so far.
In mid-March, federal judge William Alsup of San Francisco ruled that the firing of federal probationary employees was based on «lies» and that the government had illegally carried out the evictions, calling the initiative a «fiction.» The judge ordered the immediate reinstatement of the employees — more than 20,000 people.
