With 8 Months Remaining On Its Charter, DOGE Officially Shuts Down

President Donald Trump’s initiative to eliminate government waste and fraud through a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has quietly disbanded with a full 8 months still left on its charter.

Earlier this month when Reuters asked Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor about the status of DOGE, Kupor replied, “That doesn’t exist.”

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) said that Elon Musk, who headed up the DOGE effort, was pushed out Washington D.C. because he was getting too close to exposing corrupt officials who are enriching themselves through dark money non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Elon Musk’s DOGE team was quietly dissolved even though it still had eight months left on its mandate to cut excessive regulations and federal spending.

Rep. Tim Burchett says Musk was pushed out of Washington because he was getting too close to exposing corrupt officials… pic.twitter.com/XDMn0U2zQs

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) November 23, 2025

Burchett told Benny Johnson, “NGO money pours into Washington and ends up in politicians’ pockets as dark money.”

DOGE had made dramatic impact on the federal government during the early months of Trump’s second term, shrinking the size of federal agencies and cutting their budgets or revealing astonishing amounts of questionable money flowing through NGO coffers.

In an email to Reuters, White House spokeswoman Liz Huston wrote, “President Trump was given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government, and he continues to actively deliver on that commitment.”

On his first day in office, Trump forbid federal agencies from bringing on new employees, with some exceptions for positions that his team considered necessary to enforce immigration laws and to protect public safety.

Kupor told Reuters that the government-wide hiring freeze, once a DOGE hallmark, is now over, adding, “There is no target around reductions.”

DOGE is credited with exposing or eliminating tens of billions of dollars in questionable expenditures, although critics of the initiative say that verification of those numbers by outside financial experts has yet to take place.

The great irony of DOGE being eliminated as an apparent cost-cutting measure isn’t lost on casual observers.

The bigger question for many Americans is whether DOGE should ever have been shut down as the job of holding the federal government accountable for its expenditures has yet to be completed.

I think this is a mistake. DOGE should never be shut down. It should exist forever to hold everyone in government accountable for waste/fraud/abuse. The job is certainly not yet finished and we need someone as aggressive as @elonmusk leading it. https://t.co/Tz3OEvcm4q

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 23, 2025