President-elect Donald Trump formally announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE. Billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will spearhead the entity and work together to “pave the way” for Trump’s administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” explained the president-elect. The US government maintains a roughly $7 trillion budget, so it should not be too challenging for DOGE to uncover massive amounts of waste. But will it improve the country’s fiscal condition?
Where DOGE Can Snoop
This past summer, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an eye-opening report that concluded nearly 1,300 federal programs and bureaus faced expired authorizations but continued receiving…
