{"id":2428757,"date":"2025-04-29T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doge-dwindles-after-trumps-first-100-days-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:08:06","slug":"doge-dwindles-after-trumps-first-100-days-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doge-dwindles-after-trumps-first-100-days-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE dwindles after Trump\u2019s first 100 days &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoge-dwindles-after-trumps-first-100-days-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428757&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> the decline of the DOGE initiative, led by Elon Musk under the Trump governance&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency. As musk&#8217;s involvement in the project is set to decrease, he shifts focus back to Tesla, where profits have plummeted by 71%.Initially, DOGE aimed to save the U.S. $2 trillion but later revised that figure down to $1 trillion, with Musk claiming a $150 billion reduction without providing detailed evidence. The initiative has resulted in significant layoffs, with over 216,000 federal employees affected, leading to legal challenges that have cost the government billions, likely approaching musk\u2019s projected savings. Despite being heralded as the head of DOGE by Trump, Musk&#8217;s role has stirred controversy and legal scrutiny. The article highlights the complex and costly implications of the DOGE project, including ongoing lawsuits and the financial burden on taxpayers related to employee firings and rehirings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DOGE dwindles after Trump&rsquo;s first 100 days<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2103873\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> has largely disappeared from the spotlight in recent weeks, as it and its leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a>, grew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government\/2025\/04\/28\/musk-and-doge-have-a-poll-problem-00313461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">unpopular<\/a> in the polls and many of its findings turned out to be less than promised.<\/p>\n<p>DOGE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3315975\/doge-doing-across-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">came out swinging<\/a> in the early days of Trump&rsquo;s second presidency, firing thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"... Releases List of President ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal workers<\/a> and slashing congressionally appropriated funds it deemed &ldquo;waste, fraud, and abuse.&rdquo; With his 130-day time limit as a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">special government employee roughly<\/a> a month away, Musk says his involvement in the project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3388328\/elon-musk-doge-involvement-drop-may-tesla-earnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">winding down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394657\/trump-auto-tariffs-relief-executive-order\/\">Trump to sign executive order granting relief from auto tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3393888\/trump-first-100-days-report-card-white-house\/\">Trump&#8217;s first 100 days: Where things stand in the initial months of his second term<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394615\/karoline-leavitt-slams-amazon-display-tariff-costs-hostile-political-action\/\">White House slams Amazon over display of tariff costs: &#8216;Hostile and political action&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Starting probably next month, May, my time obligation to DOGE will drop significantly,&rdquo; Musk said. He said he would focus more of his time working at Tesla, whose profits have dropped 71% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Musk originally said his initiative would save the U.S. $2 trillion, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3281503\/musk-drops-doge-target-cut-2-trillion-half-epic-outcome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">later cut that figure in half<\/a>, saying it would save $1 trillion. Then, he said DOGE cut $150 billion, but did not provide details.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-each-of-bidens-42-executive-orders-will-actually-do\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s What Each Of Biden\u2019s 42 Executive Orders Will Actually Do\">federal workforce<\/a>&rsquo;s 2.4 million employees have been targeted by DOGE, with <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">over 216,000 being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/number-workers-fired-doge-trump-musk-challenger-2025-4\" target=\"_blank\">fired<\/a>&nbsp;and 75,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3319205\/75000-federal-employees-take-trump-resignation-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\">taking deferred resignations<\/a><\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, courts have ordered employees at multiple agencies to be rehired, ruling they were improperly fired. Because the government put them on paid leave when they were fired, taxpayers paid the bill of rehiring them, plus salaries collected while staying home and not working.<\/p>\n<p>These firings have cost the government billions, nearly as much as Musk says it saved through DOGE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that studies the federal workforce, firings, rehirings, paid leave, and productivity losses are expected to cost more than $135 billion this fiscal year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That estimate does not include the cost to taxpayers of defending DOGE&rsquo;s efforts in court. Of&nbsp;the 200 lawsuits&nbsp;filed against the Trump administration, at least 30 directly target DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump was elected, Musk and Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy were named co-chairs of the unofficial department, but Ramaswamy left the project before Trump&rsquo;s inauguration. After landing in various legal troubles over the DOGE efforts, the White House said Musk was not the leader of DOGE, but for some time, would not clarify who was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3329828\/white-house-insists-musk-not-head-doge-declines-identify-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3330530\/karoline-leavitt-insists-amy-gleason-doge-administrator-for-some-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Amy Gleason<\/a>, a senior adviser to the U.S. Digital Service living in Nashville, Tennessee, was the DOGE administrator. The White House later confirmed that, but still, little has been made public about her role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3264173\/trump-sprawling-business-empire-fresh-ethics-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S SPRAWLING BUSINESS EMPIRE POSES FRESH ETHICS TEST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3337375\/trump-shouts-out-elon-musk-doge-head-roaring-congressional-crowd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">called Musk the leader of DOGE<\/a> during his Joint Address to Congress earlier this year. This landed DOGE in more legal trouble as lawsuits against DOGE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3338012\/trump-joint-address-used-against-him-doge-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">cited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"... taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s comments<\/a> as evidence that Musk was running the agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As late as Tuesday, Musk also referred to himself as the head of the unofficial department. He posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1917048786633036129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">photo<\/a> on X sporting a &ldquo;DOGE Father&rdquo; police badge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2103873\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2103873\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOGE fades after Trump&#8217;s initial 100 days; Musk&#8217;s role declines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2428758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musk-inauguraiton.-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12577,23466,38296,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2428757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-doge","tag-market-analysis","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musk-inauguraiton.-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428761,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428757\/revisions\/2428761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}