The Department of Government Efficiency founded by Elon Musk has been dissolved eight months early, ending a high-profile but ineffective administrative reform project.
Elon Musk's Doge Set Dissolved Early, Lasted Less Than a Year
After nearly a year of operation, the Department of Government Efficiency ( Doge) initiated by Elon Musk has officially been dissolved, 8 months earlier than the deadline specified in President Donald Trump 's executive order.
According to Reuters, the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) established by US President Donald Trump has been disbanded ahead of schedule, with eight months remaining before its original mandate expired. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor said in an…
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Doge no longer exists
- In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Scott Kupor, director of the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM), confirmed that Doge “no longer exists” and is “no longer a centralized entity.” The core functions of the agency have been taken over by OPM, ending one of the most highly publicized administrative projects of the first half of Mr. Trump’s second term.
- Doge was founded in January 2025 with the goal of streamlining the administrative apparatus, cutting federal payrolls and applying AI to government management. Elon Musk, who led Doge in its early stages, called it a "chainsaw" that cuts through bureaucracy, while Mr. Trump sees Doge as a symbol of his commitment to cutting public spending and restructuring the administrative apparatus.
- However, the existence of Doge has never been proven by independent audit data. Although this agency has claimed to have saved tens of billions of dollars in budget, no detailed reports have been published to prove the actual effectiveness.
Internal conflicts and signs of decline
- According to sources from Reuters and OPM, signs of Doge 's "downfall" appeared in the summer of 2025, when Elon Musk and President Trump had a public conflict on social network X about the Vai of AI in government operations.
- This war of words caused Musk to leave Washington, leaving Doge without clear leadership. Since then, Mr. Trump's statements have only mentioned Doge in the past tense, while the agency's signature policies, such as the federal hiring freeze and the 1:4 staff reduction, have also been suspended.
- OPM Director Scott Kupor also confirmed that there are no longer targets for staff cuts.
- Meanwhile, some Republican-led states, such as Idaho and Florida, have created local agencies inspired by the federal model of streamlining.
- After Doge dissolved, many senior personnel of this agency were assigned to new positions in the government , notably JOE Gebbia (co-founder of Airbnb, a former member of the Doge team) who is currently leading the "National Design Studio", a new agency established by Trump's decree in August 2025, tasked with beautifying the government's website system.
- In addition, the White House is now tasking OMB and Doge 's former engineering team with developing a custom AI platform that can analyze millions of federal laws and regulations and suggest provisions that can be repealed or streamlined.
- White House spokeswoman Liz Huston affirmed that dissolving Doge does not mean giving up on reform, but is just a transitional phase:
“President Trump was elected to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, and he is delivering on that promise. The termination of Doge is part of a broader restructuring to make government more efficient.”
- As reported by Coin68, in November 2024, US President Donald Trump established the "Department of Government Efficiency" as proposed earlier by billionaire Elon Musk, and appointed him to lead this department in the new administration.
- Previously, Elon Musk cleverly shilled Doge by continuously mentioned the idea of establishing a "Ministry of Government Efficiency" (Department of Government Efficiency), abbreviated as Doge , with the goal of optimizing public spending.
- Although it is unclear whether it was intentional or not in the naming, this information seems to "ignite" the Doge fever in the cryptocurrency community. Investors believe that the frequent appearance of the name Doge in the media and in political discussions will attract more and more attention and interest in Dogecoin.
- Doge price at that time also recorded explosive growth when it became the first memecoin to surpass both XRP and USDC , reaching a Capital of 41 billion USD, nearly tripling from 0.11 USD to 0.5 USD in just one month.
- However, at the time of writing, Doge price is currently fluctuating around $0.145, recording a decrease of more than 66.5% over the past year.
Doge price movement over the past 1 year, screenshot on CoinGecko at 11:30 AM on November 24, 2025
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