Musk has shut Doge but does it leave a data trail?

Even Elon Musk admits that the Department of Government Efficiency he ran was only “somewhat successful”.

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He told an interviewer last week, given his time again, he would have continued working with his companies instead. Doge closed last month, less than a year old — a historically bad example of how not to reform government. Musk promised $2tn in savings by this summer. When he quit in April, he had lowered his estimate to $150bn in fiscal year 2026. Even that is probably wishful thinking. A recent study by the Partnership for Public Service estimated that Doge’s actions will cost