{"id":21389,"date":"2025-12-30T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/we-still-dont-really-know-what-elon-musks-doge-actually-did\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:37:24","slug":"we-still-dont-really-know-what-elon-musks-doge-actually-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/we-still-dont-really-know-what-elon-musks-doge-actually-did\/","title":{"rendered":"We still don\u2019t really know what Elon Musk\u2019s Doge actually did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficult<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/22\/biggest-tech-stories-2025\">Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> vowed late last year to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/12\/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department\">lead<\/a> a \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/11\/elon-musk-trump-doge\">claimed<\/a> it would operate with \u201cmaximum transparency\u201d as it set about saving $2tn worth of waste and exposing massive fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Today, with Musk out of the White House, Doge having cut only a tiny fraction of the waste it promised, and dozens of lawsuits alleging violations of privacy and transparency laws, much of what the agency has done remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/30\/elon-musk-doge-impact-us-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/44948e365ccdc91788f22abf90ad346c95bc3bd7\/1138_15_4951_3960\/master\/4951.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=539b2eef1fb1ef62120260ba03a67401\" title=\"We still don\u2019t really know what Elon Musk\u2019s Doge actually did\" \/>Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficult<br \/>\nElon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025<br \/>\nWhen Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), he claimed it would operate with \u201cmaximum transparency\u201d as it set about saving $2tn worth of waste and exposing massive fraud.<br \/>\nToday, with Musk out of the White House, Doge having cut only a tiny fraction of the waste it promised, and dozens of lawsuits alleging violations of privacy and transparency laws, much of what the agency has done remains a mystery. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficult Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025 When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), he claimed it would operate with \u201cmaximum transparency\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/we-still-dont-really-know-what-elon-musks-doge-actually-did\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We still don\u2019t really know what Elon Musk\u2019s Doge actually did<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}