Overview
- Senior officials confirmed in late November that DOGE was dissolved months early and no longer exists as a centralized office.
- Estimates indicate roughly 201,000 federal employees had departed by late September, with the administration projecting up to 300,000 by year’s end.
- A Politico review found only $1.4 billion of $145 billion in claimed canceled-contract savings were verifiable cash, highlighting inflationary accounting on DOGE’s “wall of receipts.”
- The administration’s regulatory agenda shows roughly a 5-to-1 ratio of deregulatory to regulatory actions, with 778 active rollbacks versus 161 new rules.
- A new Politico report from Montana describes rural strain from DOGE-era public-lands cuts, including about 5,200 terminations since February and a proposal to trim 18,500 more positions.