President Donald Trump’s Department of Government of Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is dominating both the federal bureaucracy and the headlines in the early days of the administration.
To rein in the administrative state, DOGE has taken over the offices of what was formerly the U.S. Digital Service. The U.S. Agency for International Development and other federal agencies have come under scrutiny from the White House, which called these agencies “pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight.”
Ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, the president said in a Fox News interview that he would “very soon” be giving Musk the go-ahead to similarly investigate and reform the Department of Education and the Pentagon.
But DOGE is more than just a project of the executive branch. Its ambitious goals are now being pushed by caucuses in both houses of…
