DOGE centralized office shuts down but agency offices still operating

The Division of Authorities Effectivity’s centralized workplace is closed, however particular person federal company DOGE groups working to root out potential mismanagement and corruption are nonetheless absolutely operational, Fox Information Digital has discovered.

“President Trump has been given a transparent mandate to cut back waste, fraud and abuse inside the federal authorities, and he continues to actively ship on that promise,” White Home spokeswoman Liz Huston informed Fox Information Digital on Monday when requested concerning the present standing of DOGE.

Reuters first reported this DOGE no longer existed after talking with Scott Kupor, director of the Workplace of Personnel Administration, earlier in November.

“That does not exist,” Kupor informed the newspaper.

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The central hub of the Division of Authorities Effectivity has come to an finish, in accordance with Trump administration officers. (Saul Loeb/Getty Photos)

The federal government official clarified on

“The reality is: DOGE could not have centralized management beneath @USDS. However DOGE’s ideas stay alive and properly: deregulation; eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse; reshaping the federal workforce; making effectivity a first-class citizen; and many others. DOGE has catalyzed these modifications; the companies together with @USOPM and @WHOMB will make them institutional!” he posted.

The White Home defined to Fox Information Digital that particular person groups at federal companies are nonetheless absolutely operational, whereas DOGE’s central workplace is closed.

Fox Information Digital obtained no remark months forward of schedule about when the workplace formally closed and what led to the closure.

Institution and investigations

Trump created DOGE beneath a January govt order that renamed the US Digital Service — which was created by former President Barack Obama in 2014 as a expertise company inside the Govt Workplace of the President — as the US DOGE Service.

Trump’s govt order said that DOGE would proceed till July 4, 2026. The chief order included directing company heads to create their very own DOGE groups to detect and eradicate overspending or fraud — groups which can be nonetheless energetic.

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted DOGE’s efforts to cut back alleged authorities overspending and mismanagement when tech CEO Elon Musk stepped in as public chief. (Evan Vucci/AP Photograph)

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was the general public face of DOGE in authorities for months, serving within the position till Might, when fireworks flew between the Trump ally and President Donald Trump over the “huge fancy invoice.”

Musk denounced the laws as an “outrageous, pork-filled Congressional invoice is a disgusting abomination,” whereas Trump accused the billionaire of lashing out over the invoice’s cuts to electrical car mandates. Musk is the CEO of the electrical automotive firm Tesla.

Trump signed the large piece of laws into legislation on July 4, whereas advocating that it will advance his agenda on taxes, immigration, vitality, protection and the nationwide debt.

Musk was introduced into the DOGE position as a particular authorities official, which means he might solely serve within the position for 130 days. Though Musk has been the general public face of DOGE for months, he was not an worker of the DOGE Service in the US and didn’t report back to the performing DOGE administrator, Amy Gleason, in accordance with a courtroom file beforehand reported by Fox Digital in March.

Democrats and federal staff railed in opposition to DOGE from the beginning, and subsequent investigations and mass terminations at numerous companies mounted, together with organizing protests outdoors federal buildings in Washington, DC, and particularly protesting Musk for his involvement with DOGE.

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DOGE’s website touts, Monday morning reported that it has saved $214 billion by means of “asset gross sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper cost deletions, grant cancellations, curiosity financial savings, programmatic modifications, regulatory cuts and workforce reductions.”

Based on the web site, the quantity equates to a financial savings of $1,329.19 per taxpayer.

Former White Home senior adviser Elon Musk was DOGE’s public chief earlier than stepping down from his authorities position amid a feud with President Donald Trump over the “huge stunning invoice.” (Samuel Corum/Getty Photos)

The creation of DOGE was celebrated throughout the marketing campaign as a cornerstone coverage for Trump as he sought to slim the scale of the federal authorities, streamline it and cut back potential overspending, fraud and corruption.

Musk performed a key position within the marketing campaign for the Trump ticket in battleground states like Pennsylvania, the place he usually complained that the federal authorities was mired in pink tape that stored the personal sector from transferring ahead, pointing to his corporations SpaceX and Tesla as prime examples of the federal government stifling the tech sector with laws.

“SpaceX had to do that research to see if Starship would hit a shark,” Musk stated on the marketing campaign path of how the federal government acquired concerned with SpaceX, investigating whether or not a Starship rocket would hit a whale or a shark upon touchdown. “And I am like… it is a huge ocean. There’s a whole lot of sharks. It isn’t unattainable, nevertheless it’s not possible. So we stated, ‘Okay, we’ll do the evaluation. Are you able to give us the shark information?'”

He stated on the time that the Nationwide Marine Fisheries Service had commissioned SpaceX to conduct the research.

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Trump introduced simply days after his decisive election victory in November 2024 that Musk would lead DOGE alongside former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – who left the staff in the beginning of the Trump administration and launched a run for Ohio governor within the 2026 race.

The president celebrated that the workplace would doubtless function “The Manhattan Mission” of our time because it sought to “drive huge structural reforms and create an entrepreneurial method to authorities by no means seen earlier than.”

Democrats and federal staff have protested DOGE since its creation. (Alex Wong/Getty Photos)

Trump repeatedly celebrated workplace at high-profile occasions after his inauguration, together with throughout his joint handle to Congress in March, the place he rattled off how DOGE investigations revealed authorities funding for outlandish initiatives equivalent to free housing and vehicles for unlawful immigrants costing $22 billion, “male circumcision in Mozambique” and “$20 million for the Arab “Sesame Road” within the Center East.”

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“Forty-five million {dollars} for grants for range, fairness and inclusion in Burma,” Trump stated as he gave examples of federal waste on March 4 after thanking Musk and DOGE for his or her work. “Forty million to enhance the social and financial inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody is aware of what that’s. Eight million to advertise LGBTQI+ in African Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. Sixty million {dollars} for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America. Sixty million. Eight million for making mice transgender.”