New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked [View all]

Source: Washington Post

New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked

Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight.

April 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT 39 minutes ago
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Elon Musk oversaw the U.S. DOGE Service, a government cost-cutting operation, for more than four months. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg News/Getty Images)

By Meryl Kornfield
Members of the U.S. DOGE Service spoke regularly over Signal, the encrypted chat service that can auto-delete messages. They were informally recruited by people they knew. And other government employees didn’t know who was “DOGE.”

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