The effects of DOGE’s initial blitz through the federal government – which included dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), embedding staffers in almost every agency and illegally firing people en masse – are still playing out.

Contrary to Musk’s promises, DOGE’s success is vague and tough to quantify. Measuring the full impact and determining whether the agency even exists as a centralized entity anymore is difficult, complicated by an ongoing effort from the government to block disclosure of documents, which is itself a symptom of the chaos that the department created.

Although the disarray and destruction left by DOGE is evident across the globe, we still do not really know exactly how the agency operated and its true effects. Instead, humanitarian aid organizations are still trying to assess the extent of the damage that DOGE created while ethics watchdogs have launched lawsuits trying to compel more transparency out of the government.

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    Yes we do?

    They embezzled money and fired competent workers to impose their will to cause massive damage to the democratic process.

    They lied about everything and took money while doing so. This isn’t a fucking question.

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    It cut a bunch of government programs, cancelled existing contracts, stole information and shrouded whatever it could.

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    It had no function or value beyond attempting to dismantle the federal government in an attempt to consolidate power.

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    I want to slap authors who headline things in a way that make it sound like we never knew what an agency under a fascist regime was designed for. Then just go on to explain some things that they actually did. While ignoring the months-long reports of every criminally-accountable and law-breaking thing they’ve achieved.

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    Ya we do. Fuck shit up, screw the lower and middle class, benefit the rich. Done.

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    There’s also almost no chance we can uncover what DOGE did in any organized way, because the people Musk brought in had complete control over the systems that would create logs and records of their changes, and assuming (pretty reasonably) they knew they were breaking rules, they almost certainly deleted and obscured what they were doing.

    Doing a code audit for every governmental system seems like it should be a Week 1 item for some future non-evil administration, assuming we can get out of this timeline.

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      A non-evil administration would open investigations in the House and Senate calling in every single person in and related to DOGE. (I feel stupid every time I have to type “DOGE”)

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    Mission Failed Successfully.

    They were sent in to “Move Fast and Break Things”. (AKA ruin everything). They did succeed this goal.

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    One thing that’s safe to say is that if Musk didn’t have your personal data, he does now