{"id":303231,"date":"2025-11-24T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303231\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:32:09","slug":"doge-is-no-more-and-in-its-wake-only-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303231\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

To call Musk\u2019s DC tenure contentious would be an understatement. As a man accustomed to getting what he wants and functioning as a powerful executive, he swept through Washington with a figurative chainsaw, slashing budgets, firing workers, and making audacious power grabs. Musk\u2019s brash behavior angered government employees and alienated would-be allies<\/a>, like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Eventually, the bad blood reached a fever pitch, and Musk had a minor physical altercation<\/a> with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.<\/p>\n

Politico<\/a> details the stunning fallout. By late May, DOGE<\/a> and Musk had lost favor with President Trump, and White House aides began pushing back more forcefully against the fledgling government agency. When Musk was officially given a farewell by the White House on May 30th<\/a>, it also pushed out his right-hand man, Steve Davis.<\/p>\n

But Davis, an engineer who had worked closely with Musk for over 20 years, including at DOGE, simply refused to leave. He stepped in to try and take the reins, but this didn\u2019t sit well with many of the remaining DOGE staffers. But others remained loyal, essentially splitting the department in two.<\/p>\n

When those uncomfortable with Davis\u2019 leadership, given that he was no longer a government employee, tried to plan for DOGE\u2019s future without him, Davis accused them of staging a coup. The White House quickly rooted out his loyalists, putting an end to Davis\u2019 brief attempt to consolidate control in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

What followed was a series of restructurings, changes in leadership, and ultimately, the end of DOGE as a centralized organization. When Reuters<\/a> reached out to the White House to ask about the status of DOGE earlier this month, it was told, \u201cthat doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk rode into Washington with big ambitions of slashing government spending by trillions of dollars. Instead, during his brief time in DC, government spending actually increased<\/a>, and he left behind many burned bridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To call Musk\u2019s DC tenure contentious would be an understatement. As a man accustomed to getting what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[250,43,44,2100,714,64,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-303231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-elon-musk","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-policy","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}