The most attention grabbing member of DOGE has vacated Washington but many of the agency's embedded staff is ready to continue government cuts.

Elon Musk's actions in the White House violated norms "at an astonishing pace" for government workers, Elizabeth Warren's office said in a report.

One Musk ally, Michael Russo, was installed as the SSA’s chief information officer. He pushed the then-acting commissioner to have agency workers analyze the data the Tesla billionaire and his team were claiming to be evidence of fraudulent payments.

According to The New York Times, Team Musk’s Social Security cuts were based on lies and “misinterpreted data.”

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk spent most of Thursday fighting online. This shouldn’t be what Americans remember about DOGE.

In a surprising move before his exit from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk introduced a contentious directive requiring federal employees to submit a detailed weekly email of their activities.

USDS, the White House team DOGE took over in January, was a flagship civic tech organization. Six months later, civic tech is figuring out what’s next.

Whatever President Donald Trump has been putting in Elon Musk's morning coffee seems to have stopped working. As May 2025 neared its end, so did the tech billionaire's tenure as the unofficial head of DOGE.