DOGE - USAID et al

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based on recent reports, it’s true that DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has been integrated into many federal agencies through embedded teams, staff, or operational units—often described as “DOGE offices” or equivalents—that continue its mission of efficiency, waste reduction, and oversight. This decentralization followed the quiet disbandment of DOGE as a standalone entity around November 2025, ahead of its original July 2026 expiration. While sources vary on the exact scope (e.g., “all” vs. “many” agencies), the embedding is widespread and includes:

  • Office of Personnel Management (OPM): Acts as a central hub for DOGE’s workforce reduction directives, with embedded staff handling HR overhauls and agency-wide efficiency mandates.
  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Institutionalizes DOGE’s tools for deregulation, AI audits, and budget cuts, with teams funded through agency IT modernization funds.
  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Former DOGE staffers in roles like chief technology officer, focusing on fraud detection and program streamlining.
  • State Department: Embedded personnel overseeing foreign assistance and efficiency reforms.
  • Department of Education: DOGE teams with access to federal student loan data and other systems for waste elimination.
  • Treasury Department (including IRS): Staff integrated for system access and financial oversight.
  • Other agencies: Reports mention integration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Naval Research, General Services Administration (GSA), Social Security Administration, and dozens more, with over 100 former DOGE staffers reassigned across the government.
  • Some agencies were directed to establish minimum teams of four specialists (e.g., engineer, HR expert, lawyer, and lead) coordinating with a rebranded U.S. DOGE Service in the Executive Office of the President.

This model makes DOGE’s influence more pervasive and harder to dismantle, as it’s no longer a single target but distributed “watchdogs” with data access and decision-making roles.
Critics, including Democrats, have raised concerns about political influence from these embedded staffers. Overall, while not every minor agency may have a formal “DOGE office,” the embedding affects a broad swath of the federal government, with ongoing activities like contract terminations (e.g., $1.9 billion in recent cancellations).
 
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🇺🇸 OPINION: THE REAL DOGE DIVIDEND: WHEN TRANSPARENCY BECAME A MAJOR PART OF THE CUT

Washington had never seen anything like it.

DOGE actually threw the bureaucrats into a collective aneurysm.

DOGE swung a chainsaw through the federal ledger and left a trail of data to prove it.

The numbers tell the story. DOGE claimed $202 billion in savings.

This is the largest one-year trim in modern federal history.

Contracts cut: 2,274 across forty-seven batches, from a $4.7 million Russian climate grant to a $759 million DEI consulting line.

Rules removed or pending repeal: 1,589, including forty-seven Energy Department regulations worth $11 billion in projected savings.

Agencies eliminated: none, though the Inter-American Foundation dropped from sixty-four staff to one, and eighteen minor boards were defunded.

Fraud blocked: $334 million in improper payments stopped after DOGE forced ID verification on high-risk transfers.

A dent, not a cure, against an annual $500 billion waste estimate.

Federal spending still rose 5 percent year-over-year, and the headline goal of $500 billion in cuts never materialized.

But the cultural shock was real.

For the first time, budgets updated live on a public dashboard.

Bureaucrats watched their departments shrink in real time while the public refreshed the feed.

Transparency turned from a buzzword into a pressure test.

Sources: @DOGE, Fortune, BudgetHouseGov
Video: @teslaownersSV
 
Goldhedge said:


🇺🇸 OPINION: THE REAL DOGE DIVIDEND: WHEN TRANSPARENCY BECAME A MAJOR PART OF THE CUT

Washington had never seen anything like it.

DOGE actually threw the bureaucrats into a collective aneurysm.

DOGE swung a chainsaw through the federal ledger and left a trail of data to prove it.

The numbers tell the story. DOGE claimed $202 billion in savings.

This is the largest one-year trim in modern federal history.

Contracts cut: 2,274 across forty-seven batches, from a $4.7 million Russian climate grant to a $759 million DEI consulting line.

Rules removed or pending repeal: 1,589, including forty-seven Energy Department regulations worth $11 billion in projected savings.

Agencies eliminated: none, though the Inter-American Foundation dropped from sixty-four staff to one, and eighteen minor boards were defunded.

Fraud blocked: $334 million in improper payments stopped after DOGE forced ID verification on high-risk transfers.

A dent, not a cure, against an annual $500 billion waste estimate.

Federal spending still rose 5 percent year-over-year, and the headline goal of $500 billion in cuts never materialized.

But the cultural shock was real.

For the first time, budgets updated live on a public dashboard.

Bureaucrats watched their departments shrink in real time while the public refreshed the feed.

Transparency turned from a buzzword into a pressure test.

Sources: @DOGE, Fortune, BudgetHouseGov
Video: @teslaownersSV
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Like any organism under attack, the bureaucracy will conserve inward to regroup & then adapt/change to meet the attack.

Humans are a living organism so we evolve our life/world just like any organism does.

Humans developed Gov/ Bureaucracy so it has all the characteristics of an organism.

Organism's strive to live & expand. The bureaucrats will adapt.
 
It's still verking!



Contracts Update!

Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 43 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.5B and savings of $222M, including a $4.3M Dept. of Treasury IT contract to “develop a comprehensive strategic narrative and management approach aimed at the Human Centered Transformation and Enhanced Partnerships”, and a $29M Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for “providing the necessary staff to perform Program Management, providing planning, analysis, and support in managing projects”.
 
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