The United States’ Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative has reportedly disbanded with eight months remaining in its mandate, after spearheading massive cuts to the federal government earlier this year.
DOGE was created by an executive order in January, and originally led by Elon Musk. The government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which manages human resources, has taken over many of DOGE’s tasks, Reuters reported.
“That doesn’t exist,” OPM director Scott Kupor told Reuters when asked about DOGE’s current status.
According to Kupor, DOGE is no longer a “centralised entity”.
Musk, DOGE’s unofficial director and figurehead, left the initiative in May following pushback from cabinet officials.
Former senior DOGE officials have taken other roles in the Trump administration, including at the National Design Studio, a newly formed government website design body. Acting DOGE administrator Amy Gleason became an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in March.
DOGE was initially tasked with cutting the government’s spending and workforce until July 2026. Kupor projected in August that there would be 300,000 fewer federal government employees in December 2025 than in January, though on more than 26,500 occasions the government has had to rehire workers it laid off.
It also cancelled at least 30,000 federal grants, contracts, and leases. DOGE dismantled agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and sought to lay off around half of the Department of Education’s workforce.
DOGE had claimed it saved $52.8 billion through July by ending these contracts, though a Politico investigation found it had only saved around $1.4 billion.
While the White House attempted additional workforce cuts during the government shutdown, these were reversed under the eventual funding bill, with new layoffs currently paused until January. DOGE’s government-wide hiring freeze has also ended.
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