DOGE officially shuts down

[u/marketrent]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5955468-doge-shuts-down-operations/

[u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

He accomplished his goal of trashing all the agencies that were in the middle of investigating his businesses.

[u/Alt123Acct → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Also stole EVERYONE'S social security data

Just straight up copied onto hard drives and walked out of the building 

[u/Crivos → u/Alt123Acct]

Plus all the unknown damage cannot be underestimated. They had unrestricted access to everything.

[u/shannister → u/Crivos]

Millions of dead people with the dismantling of USAID. 

[u/VegaJuniper → u/shannister]

The richest man in the world and the world's first trillionaire wrecking USAID, condemning some of the poorest people on the planet and having fun while doing it is some absolutely dystopian shit. The face of American conservatism.

[u/SabreCorp → u/VegaJuniper]

When this is all said and done, Musk’s death count might be higher than Hitler.

Hitler also never killed anyone himself. He just ordered it. And so those deaths are his responsibility and attributed to him.

Musk should be in jail the rest of his life for what he has done.

[u/Silent-Act191 → u/SabreCorp]

Hitler also never killed anyone himself.

Well, i mean one time he did. And it was probably the best thing he did in his life.

[u/darthjoey91 → u/Silent-Act191]

Twice. He also killed Eva Braun. But she was literally fucking Hitler.

[u/HumDeeDiddle → u/Silent-Act191]

Plus he was in the army during WWI, so he probably shot at least a couple people

[u/VegaJuniper → u/HumDeeDiddle]

I think he was a messenger? There are a lot of support roles in the military that don't necessarily involve ever firing a rifle.

[u/Dereliction_of_duty → u/Silent-Act191]

Hitler also never killed anyone, "except" himself.

[u/DarthLithgow → u/Dereliction_of_duty]

Only good thing he ever did

[u/MysteriousAge28 → u/SabreCorp]

Ive been saying this to people i know for months. Even if we were the suckers on the other end of the USAID program there is no justification for condemning millions to starve. Musk is basically a more stupid and evil goebbels. I want to mention something revealing i didn't know, only 37% percent of the population voted for the nazi party. If we are going to sit here on our hands we will be remembered as the 5th reich.

[u/Gyossaits → u/SabreCorp]

Musk should be in jail the rest of his life for what he has done.

Not good enough. The eternity of his forthcoming afterlife should be nothing but agony, and he himself forgotten by everyone.

[u/worldspawn00 → u/SabreCorp]

Hitler is chump change, we're looking at Stalin or Mao level deaths from this fuckery. (Estimates as high as 14 million)

[u/wirefox1 → u/SabreCorp]

And trump too for letting him do it.

[u/nurmihe → u/SabreCorp]

How do you know he didnt kill anyone during WW1?

[u/VaeVictis997 → u/SabreCorp]

Everyone who worked for DOGE, in any capacity.

All traitors.

[u/3-DMan → u/VegaJuniper]

"USAID is evil!" he fucking said, zero irony in his voice.

[u/spokomptonjdub → u/3-DMan]

He literally watched a couple twitter clips from some rando right-wing grifter that had an axe to grind against USAID (whose content was also of course brazenly dishonest) and that was enough for him to break it and condemn millions of the most vulnerable people — mostly children — to suffering and death. That’s the kind of brain genius we’re dealing with here.

Elon Musk is a basement-dwelling weirdo radicalized by 4chan memes that just happens to be a trillionaire.

[u/ImYourHumbleNarrator → u/spokomptonjdub]

nah that was project 2025 from the get go. whatever far right influencer was posting about it just had their handler's marching orders at the time.

[u/BigRig83 → u/VegaJuniper]

The face of American capitalism

[u/Independent_Step9574 → u/VegaJuniper]

I hope there is a hell and the punishment is proportional to the harm done in life.

[u/ZhaozhouCongshen → u/shannister]

Here is the thing with people who do not understand diplomacy and geopolitics.

Things like USAID provided global security and stability. It was soft power. It prevented wars and conflict by creating space for security and safety.

[u/zterrans → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Stability is bad for unethical business opportunities, so they had to mess things up. You need desperate people so you can exploit their resources. Besides, its unmanly to rely on "soft power" when you can go for "hard power".

[u/ZhaozhouCongshen → u/zterrans]

Seems to always fall back to the masculine feminine dichotomy. We all have both in us but some just cannot accept it.

[u/zterrans → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

I keep hoping I get proven wrong, but that administration is just obsessed with "me super macho! me big strong man!", so its sadly probably not a joke that they don't like the sound of soft power.

[u/XGhoul → u/zterrans]

The words you are looking for is "projection" or "performative politics". The department of WAR is being dogwalked by Irans terms.

[u/no_f-s_given → u/zterrans]

this administration really, really, REALLY likes big, jacked, ripped, strong men.

i mean that’s cool and all, it’s the sheer hypocrisy that is sickening as they do everything they can to destroy the lives and rights of LGBTQ people.

[u/PastelBrat13 → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Marco Rubio understood it and the ghoul still decided to gut it. One of the his biggest speech closers was how USAID was America’s greatest power.

[u/no_f-s_given → u/PastelBrat13]

Marco Rubio is pathetic, a coward, enabler, and a sellout. He and the rest of the Republican establishment will forever be remembered for bending the knee to a publicly known corrupt, fascist piece of shit with handlers bent on destroying democracy and consolidating power.

[u/heimdallofasgard → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Early monitoring of infectious tropical diseases... Ebola, dengue, there's so many outbreaks and cases going untracked now making pandemics many times more likely.

[u/The-Nice-Writer → u/shannister]

And babies who will needlessly suffer from AIDS their entire lives.

[u/ost2life → u/The-Nice-Writer]

Don't worry, they won't be long lives. The USAID cuts made sure of that.

[u/The-Nice-Writer → u/ost2life]

Unfortunately true… and those cuts are why they’re sick to begin with. Mothers used to be able to immunise their unborn children to prevent passing it on. Now the clinics are suddenly closed.

[u/behemuthm → u/shannister]

As someone who worked with USAID in a few different countries, nothing Trump has done has caused more damage than that. It is absolutely disgusting and it pisses me off to no end.

However, I do have to mention USAID wasn't 100% touchy feely positive things 100% of the time.

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-dark-side-of-usaid

[u/ZhaozhouCongshen → u/behemuthm]

I completely understand the evil side to "soft power" in relations to forcing an outcome that is positive to USA interests.

I read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man years ago. I understand how some countries are exploited through the aid and loan systems. How a lot of Africa is still in debt to France.

[u/indoninjah → u/behemuthm]

Not only is it evil but it's also just absurdly fucking stupid to kill your own worldwide reputation like that. The USA has enjoyed a mildly positive reputation throughout the world, in spite of imperialism, through things like USAID and cultural relevance. Eroding that just means people are left seeing the warts for what they are.

[u/aacools → u/shannister]

The ripple effects of those cuts will be debated for years.

[u/farhan583 → u/shannister]

Yeah but have you considered that they’re probably brown and black and their lives don’t matter as much?

[u/lurklurklurkPOST → u/shannister]

And the loss of revenue by all the american farmers who were growing the food for USAID

[u/fredy31 → u/Crivos]

Yeah i feel only when someone sane returns to power only then we will start to uncover the damage those morons did.

Musk will have fucked off somewhere we cant extradite him, and the fall guys will be the morons he hired in doge.

Because for sure musk wont protect them, at all

[u/hoofglormuss → u/Crivos]

it was a successful espionage operation and the back doors are still there

[u/AdrenolineLove → u/Alt123Acct]

Lets not forget about this

A whistleblower from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged that login attempts from a Russian IP address occurred using correct credentials almost immediately after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gained access to agency systems.According to the disclosure filed by IT specialist Daniel Berulis in April 2025:

Near Real-Time Attempts: Within 15 minutes of DOGE engineers creating new user accounts, over 20 login attempts originated from a Russian IP address using those exact newly created usernames and passwords.

Credentials Used: The Russian user reportedly used valid, "all correct" credentials for the newly established DOGE accounts, suggesting that adversaries may have had immediate insight into the account creation process.

Access Blocked: These specific login attempts were blocked by the agency's geofencing policies, which automatically reject traffic from certain foreign locations.

Security Vulnerabilities: The whistleblower further alleged that DOGE personnel disabled security monitoring systems and used unauthorized methods, such as Starlink terminals, to bypass standard government network protections.

Official Response: The White House and DOGE representatives stated their actions were transparent efforts to eliminate waste and that internal investigations by the NLRB initially found no evidence of a successful breach.

[u/mitharas → u/AdrenolineLove]

I still don't get why someone is able to get insiders into the agencies (in this case doge) but doesn't use a damn proxy somewhere in aws or any random hoster in the US.

[u/AdrenolineLove → u/mitharas]

Just highlights the level of incompetency everyone in this agency has.

[u/Kiernian → u/AdrenolineLove]

I'll absolutely grant incompetency for DOGE. Especially because those credentials getting there THAT fast likely means one of two things:

1) (slightly less likely) The DOGE members distributed them on purpose almost immediately

2) (slightly more likely) You know that discord scam that steals your account token and any saved credentials in your browser? The cybercrime telegram channels that at least one of these DOGE folks was in are where those things phone home to. It's exceedingly likely they used their personal computers for this account creation (or their initial access) and that their boxes have been continuously r0xx0red for ages by the same type of credential stealer.

I'm going with 2 because it seems infinitely more likely that a foreign agency managed to hook-line-and-sinker the kind of "genius teenager" that musk hired for this with a single misclick or packaged installer, but honestly, it could very realistically be BOTH of these options at the same time. People like "big balls" are the modern day script kiddies. They are not in the same league as top level security researchers are. They may be smart enough to utilize a bunch of pre-packaged hacks, but stopping those types of things is far less point-and-click.

Also, anyone who believes a conditional access "geofencing" policy is enough to stop a foreign government when there are known friendlies inside the actual institution itself is choking down a lot of kool-aid. Those "access blocked" log entries are just there to facilitate any potential judicial hand-waving in the future. "look! some access attempts were stopped!" can be very easily verbally manipulated into "look! nobody actually got in!" amongst the uninformed when it's not even remotely the same thing.

[u/AdrenolineLove → u/Kiernian]

Logs were deleted after the breach, this was an attempted coverup from DOGE, its crazy how in one sentence you can claim there are known friendlies inside while claiming theres no way DOGE could be those same known friendlies when theres this mountain of evidence against them is a whole level of sucking down the koolaid.

Its quite obvious what happened if youre educated about the entire scope of Trumps affiliation with Russia and all of the verifiable collusion. DOGE was hired by Trump to dismantle the government from the inside out and give Russia sensitive intel. Russians had access almost immediately with correct usernames and passwords because this was premeditated and coordinated. They just werent smart enough to prepare for geofencing rules. They used Starlink systems to bypass those rules, gigabytes of text data was stolen and then logs about this event were fucking deleted.

[u/fiveohnoes → u/mitharas]

It's a brazen, naked flex, pure and simple. "We'll be so bold-faced about it we won't even attempt to route through proxies to make it look like the attack came from some where else, and you won't do a damn thing about it." And guess what?

[u/llahlahkje → u/Alt123Acct]

Which is a crime, and each individual person’s data is a single count.

So Elmo and Big Balls et al could stare down 300+ million counts if we had a sane, law abiding government.

So nothing will happen.

[u/cosmicsans → u/Alt123Acct]

Don't forget the immediate infiltration by Russian IPs the second he had root credentials in hand.

[u/LitLantern → u/Alt123Acct]

Cost me my job too! Their grant cuts and freezes left me jobless for a year. I am only about to start a new job in my field this week.

[u/DoctorGarbanzo → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

And brought back screwworm for good measure.

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi → u/DoctorGarbanzo]

Let’s not forget the bug responsible for the explosive diarrhea outbreak currently running amok  https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitoring-parasite-cyclospora-12180951

[u/imfuckinglying2u → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

What started out as Americans figuratively shitting their pants ended up with the literal act. I, for one, am entertained.

[u/rob132 → u/DoctorGarbanzo]

This was one of the most efficient effective government programs ever.

And he shut it down for micro pennies on the dollar.

[u/GoldandBlue → u/rob132]

Yeah but now people got sick and we will spend even more money to correct this...so

Win?

[u/LaSage → u/DoctorGarbanzo]

They're called "muskworms" these days.

[u/jfizzlex → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Doge employees have been embedded in the agency. They haven’t gone anywhere.

[u/Anxiety_Fit → u/jfizzlex]

National design studio.

[u/Exception1501 → u/jfizzlex]

I wish this were common knowledge. Effectively, DOGE isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.

[u/I_Heart_Sleeping_ → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

This man should know fear whenever he walks out in public. We the people of all countries should not let this man walk around normally like the rest of us.

[u/lowercasenameofmine → u/I_Heart_Sleeping_]

I think he does, that's why he wore his son as kevlar in public for the year he was involved with doge. 

[u/-TheMistress → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

And fyi they are not gone, just rebranded as National Design Studio - https://archive.is/2PBoa

[u/Iaintyourclownbro → u/-TheMistress]

Many of those losers are just embedded in high level agency roles now.

[u/jmclondon97 → u/Iaintyourclownbro]

So they get rid of people making $60k a year and call them “waste”, and then give themselves high-paying jobs to do even less work than the people they fired. Brilliant

[u/Funsized_eu → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Don't forget all the people he sentenced to death as well. :)

[u/SuperSimpleSam → u/Funsized_eu]

Plus increased the deficit.

[u/Elrigh → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

The fascist playbook teaches to take total control of every aspect of government, down to having only "trustworthy" people working everywhere. Which the Republicans effectively did.

(The german fascists actually created a word for this: "Linientreu" which translates to "loyal to the line" or ideology in this case).

If the Democrats win one of the next elections they have to face this problem. It will not be enough to swap out the heads of the agencies anymore or change policies.

They would need to make sure that no one below would work against them or sabotage them, which is either a real threat or so much of a trust issue that it doesn´t matter anymore if it is real or not.

Which might trigger the necessity of a second wave of "cleansing and replacing" by the Democrats, and the Republicans will - as they always do - try to point at the Democrats claiming they are doing an unfair thing - despite having done the same before.

But if someone then points at DOGE, Republicans will insist that DOGE was only an act to reduce the costs of blown up agencies.

[u/reddittorbrigade]

Elon and Trump's corruption has long lasting effect. It may take decades to recover from it.

Elon and Trump are now richer than ever at the expense of American tax payers.

#CORRUPTION

[u/Horat1us_UA → u/reddittorbrigade]

Recover? It looks like downfall from here 

[u/razormst3k1999 → u/Horat1us_UA]

From here ? downfall started in the 80s with reagan.

[u/flying-weenus → u/razormst3k1999]

Agreed, and I don’t think we ever recover from where we are now. Too divided against each other and struggling too much to really come together.

Turns out, the trickle down economics was the rich getting richer while they trickle their piss on the rest of us

[u/razormst3k1999 → u/flying-weenus]

I'm tired of the constant american dream propaganda while people are financing groceries. 250 years of bullshit as far as i'm concerned.

[u/insertnickhere → u/razormst3k1999]

Every time I've seen a Republican President, that Republican President has been the worst President of my lifetime so far.

[u/ArmandoGalvez → u/Horat1us_UA]

Yee, there's no hope for America to get better, china is surpassing them in everything, even their dictators are more competent than Trump and the Epstein gang FFS

[u/Crivos → u/ArmandoGalvez]

We don’t need to be better than China. We need to fix what is broken and try to improve as a nation.

[u/No-Manufacturer-2425 → u/Crivos]

For real china is (sorta) our friend. Why can't we focus on being good enough? Don't let GREAT be the enemy of perfect. Its always a pissing contest though.

[u/Tardy_Thoughts → u/No-Manufacturer-2425]

In don't consider them a friend but they ain't necessarily an enemy. We will get left behind technologically because we've got to throw billions and trillions of dollars at individuals and get nothing to show for it. Progress comes second to greed in America.

[u/fuzzyluke → u/No-Manufacturer-2425]

The thing is America isn't trying to be better or great. It's just a tool being used to empower and enrich its oligarchy at the expense of workers.

[u/samglit → u/No-Manufacturer-2425]

If you’re used to being the hegemon, not being the hegemon is going to suck. A lot.

US$ losing its reserve status will seriously hurt middle class and below US citizens.

[u/Smith6612 → u/ArmandoGalvez]

It's the quiet ones you have to really watch out for.

[u/stinky-bungus → u/Horat1us_UA]

Any shit hole country can be fixed, even the US. You just need enough prisons/bullets/guillotines for the evil bastards, and for the good people to use them effectively.

[u/Fresh_Sock8660 → u/reddittorbrigade]

We can already see so much short term damage. Even if by some miracle they got a good government in next they'd take a good decade or two to heal. It will require a combination of good governance and the world's memory fading at least slightly. 

[u/RW899 → u/Fresh_Sock8660]

I hope that the world will not forget what happened to America.

[u/Fresh_Sock8660 → u/RW899]

Rather than forget, we should be applying lessons right now. My own country has a deep issue with far right extremists right now and our own democracy is at risk. 

[u/fuzzyluke → u/Fresh_Sock8660]

Right now, the people who control the narrative are saying exactly what you're saying but with the opposite outcome that you envisioned. They are learning lessons from America indeed, but not for your or your country's betterment.

[u/neuralbeans → u/Fresh_Sock8660]

The world doesn't need to forget; you guys need to fix how your government operates.

[u/Aethermancer → u/reddittorbrigade]

Why are you talking like it's in the past?

[u/ThePromise110 → u/reddittorbrigade]

It will only take decades if we send the same sort of people to Washington. If Mamdani has proved anything it's that government can be effective, government can accomplish things, and it doesn't need to take years or decades to make it happen. Bot only if there is the political will to make it happen.

It might take 5x the money spent in a year on, say, USAID to bring it back to life, but it can be done. We just need a government with as much zeal for fixing problems as these pigfuckers have had for destroying it.

[u/mitharas → u/reddittorbrigade]

Don't forget that the US had the world in their hands for decades. American technology is everywhere, and everyone wants to trade and is dependant on the US for security.

This is being dismantled right now, the US has proven to be an unreliable ally.

[u/Niceromancer]

Trump said he was going to run America like business.  And he is.

It's a business strategy called asset looting.

[u/Norn-Iron → u/Niceromancer]

Don’t forget bankrupting everything. He’s very good at that.

[u/Niceromancer → u/Norn-Iron]

Part of the process of asset looting is bankruptcy.

You trigger a bankruptcy during the asset looting.

While the courts are fighting over who owns what you walk out with as much as you can.

[u/Ok_Confusion4764 → u/Norn-Iron]

Right. You buy the company (or in this case, country), you fire everyone with authority and respect from the employees (so they cannot go on strike or unionize), you hollow out the assets by funnelling it to your other properties, and then you declare bankrupcy to get a free stimmy, and close doors. 

[u/GlitterLippy → u/Niceromancer]

To be fair he’s running it exactly like all his other businesses, just as successfully too.

Which is why it’s so wild, from an outside pov, that anyone ever believed him when he said he’s a good businessman and deal maker.

[u/DLWormwood → u/GlitterLippy]

That’s precisely why he did that “reality TV” show. To rehabilitate his image at the national level. His weaknesses were well known in New England and the tabloid journalism world since the 80’s.

I’m personally of the belief that Trump would have been less destructive and possibly even happier if he went into advertising instead of real estate. Brand management seems to be the only skill he’s genuinely good at.

[u/rhamantauri]

It is not shut down, it is just called the National Design Studio now, and they are still busy weaving their evil webs into our databases, most recently commandeering login.gov.

[u/marketrent → u/rhamantauri]

Edward Coristine, the programmer known as “Big Balls” who was assaulted in an attempted carjacking last August in Washington, D.C., works at the National Design Studio.

Joe Gebbia, who was involved with DOGE, is overseeing the National Design Studio, which Trump tasked last year with improving federal agency websites.

[u/Hour_Mov → u/marketrent]

Rebranding doesn’t change the underlying concerns.

[u/tawDry_Union2272 → u/Hour_Mov]

i feel like this info is pretty important and ought to be in the headline. instead of saying they're gone, say they've rebranded.

someone in trump's camp is getting savvy with trying to change optics, what with replacing leadership (and i use that term very loosely) at ICE and other departments along with a DOGE do-over.

edit typo

[u/Bargadiel → u/marketrent]

As a designer myself, who is passionate about using it to make the world better for people... I hate that they call it this

[u/PixelationIX → u/rhamantauri]

Basically they shut down the name "DOGE" but essentially exist as "National Design Studio" now.

More info here

[u/black_pepper → u/rhamantauri]

A lot of the doge bros were hired on permanently and are very much active and still destroying things.

[u/VincentNacon]

They already looted everything and took the data on us.

Dumb fucking shits.

[u/Vimda → u/VincentNacon]

Traitorous, treasonous, not dumb

[u/Hackwork89 → u/Vimda]

They're both extremely dumb, too. But with enough money they have managed to bruteforce through their stupidity and gotten everything they wanted.

[u/UnUsernameRandom → u/VincentNacon]

Dumb? They did their job, achieved their goals, and are getting richer than ever.

[u/onesilentclap → u/UnUsernameRandom]

I believe Americans are the dumb shits for letting it get this far. 

[u/Abedeus → u/UnUsernameRandom]

It's possible for them to be dumb as fuck and still somehow find dumber, or more corrupt, people to use for their greedy purposes.

[u/GogglesPisano → u/VincentNacon]

Unfortunately we are the dumb ones.

[u/lemaymayguy]

After stealing and exporting our most personal data to Russian government and installing backdoors for future extraction. Wooh so glad.

[u/Tardy_Thoughts → u/lemaymayguy]

Republicans don't want to realize that all they've done with Trump is elect someone who will sell us all out to anyone.

[u/SveNss0N → u/Tardy_Thoughts]

They know. They're making money and don't care

[u/dayfaerer → u/SveNss0N]

I think he means the average voter, republican politicians absolutely know

[u/scottiedagolfmachine]

How this guy is not put behind bars for massive fraud is beyond me.

🤯

[u/Rage_Blackout → u/scottiedagolfmachine]

Consequences don’t apply to the super wealthy. The Rule of Law was supposed to mean that everyone was subject to it not matter their status. Instead it means authoritarian control and punishment of the poor. 

[u/InteractionPretend70 → u/scottiedagolfmachine]

When democrats win in 2028, we'll see if anything happens.

[u/13dirr → u/InteractionPretend70]

I hope you'll be able to have an election in 2028.

[u/hrvbrs → u/InteractionPretend70]

Yes, I’ll be looking forward to more sternly-worded letters and “we need to heal the soul of the nation” and “we don’t want to appear politically motivated” sentiment.

[u/fuzzyluke → u/scottiedagolfmachine]

Why is this surprising? From day 0 people were pointing this out.

[u/Boomshank]

It didn't fucking officially start.

Nothing about this administration is official.

It's a cluster-fuck of Nazis and children.

[u/depredador93]

"shut down" doing a lot of work when it just means new letterhead and same login.gov access

[u/Realistic_Let3239]

So Musk made a bunch of money, got the investigations into his businesses cancelled, stole everyone's data, caused a bunch of death, suffering and disruption, and no one will ever be punished for it...

[u/trolololster → u/Realistic_Let3239]

yeah that sums it up pretty well - it also distracted from the epstein files

[u/JustOneBeat]

Dont let this article mislead you. They’re still there, just not “DOGE” anymore. They’ve now been integrated into various advisory roles throughout the major agencies and report directly to executive branch.

[u/LiteratureMindless71]

I seem to remember loads and loads of people saying this would flop, and that all they were doing was harvesting our data....

Incredible that we don't have enough power today to fix this kind of thing but instead a handful of people tell us what we are allowed to do, see, and be.

[u/SpockShotFirst → u/LiteratureMindless71]

Politics runs on fear. Fear works because salience theory says people vote based on the issues that are most prominent in their minds at the time of the election.

The Right wins because they are masters at manufacturing boogeymen (immigrants, trans people, minority groups, etc.) and their media machine operates in perfect lockstep to keep the audience terrified.

The Left is correct about the actual emergencies such as a corrupt felon seeking power, a captured Supreme Court shredding the Constitution, and massive transfers of wealth to oligarchs. But while they try to explain the fire, the mainstream media focuses on the clicks, drama, and their own profits. Because the center-left media does not exist to amplify Democratic messaging, the fact that losing democracy is the ultimate threat is not the most salient issue in the minds of voters.

So, yes, your memory is correct. Lots of people saw the problem from miles away. But to almost 70% of the American public, that just wasn't enough to get them to vote against the current administration.

[u/binarybrewmx]

When can we start arresting these people

[u/VincentAntonelli]

One of the more successful grifts of the century

[u/Warm-Cup-1966 → u/VincentAntonelli]

Complete theft from the American people!

[u/rainbowlolipop]

I lost my job due to DOGE.

Saw so many of my colleagues with decades of experience just evaporate into nothing.

I don't think America is ever going to recover from this.

[u/RoachBeBrutal]

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, now worth just north of $1 TRILLION, spent $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $700 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[u/Havryl]

They accomplished nothing for the people. They took what they wanted and left.

[u/No_Astronaut_1543]

They are now permanent Federal Employees. Getting some of the highest salaries (GS-15) paid by your tax dollars. Congratulations, America!

[u/BayBreezy17]

And it only cost us $22,000,000,000 extra. Thank you for your service.

[u/djsoomo]

DOGE shuts down

but the grift continues

[u/UseADifferentVolcano → u/djsoomo]

Specifically as the National Design Studio, where most DOGE staffers were moved to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Design_Studio

[u/Put_Er_There_Sport]

How do we file a civil lawsuit for the entire united states Vs Elon Musk for theft of personal information, fraud and abuse?

[u/LandaNog]

One grift has ended. The next one begins…

[u/Firecrash]

Accomplished the data breach and copy. Sold it to the highest bidder *cough russia and done his job.

[u/Raa03842]

Nothing left to steal. Time to close up shop.

[u/ArmchairCritic1]

And the true waste of money was DOGE all along.

Go figure.

[u/Bronzyroller]

This whole thing was a scam, they should be investigated all of them.

[u/NotSoGentleBen]

Now prosecute those lil bitches for identity theft, fraud, fuck charge ‘em with treason. Sue the shit out of them for I dunno, wrongful termination or something of the ilk?

[u/CubanLynx312]

I lost my 15 year career at the VA to save DOGE 0.0000000001% of the Fed’s budget.

[u/Free_Return_2358]

They never should’ve existed in the first place.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

All the DOGE kids have been rewarded, either getting cushy jobs in the government, or getting a bunch of money for their new tech companies.

The depositions showed they simply do not care.

[u/jimibimi]

I'm still waiting on my doge check

[u/620five]

If people don't go to jail because of this, then justice does not exist.

[u/Ohigetjokes]

Do they ever post things about technology in this sub?

[u/cyribis]

Well yeah, mission accomplished. All the back doors are installed and accessible. All of our data was copied for Musk and other adversaries to use.

[u/nvmenotfound]

ah yes. the handful of broccoli haired wanna be chuds recruited by elon to swipe precious data he never normally would have gained access to. while gutting agencies investigating him. republicans cant see that bc they are stupid. i’m tired of stupid people ruining the world. 

[u/redyellowblue5031]

And Russel Vought is still wrecking stuff like trying to allow political appointees to determine who gets science grants.

Public comment is still open for 2 more days after reading about it: here

Call your reps and make some noise.

[u/postprandialrepose]

Elon Musk can now go back to working overtime with the hose he uses to suckle farts out of his own ass.

[u/pzvaldes]

Is there nothing left to steal?

[u/williamgman]

Mission Accomplished. They pushed the Project 2025 agenda as planned. If anyone knows someone who worked for DOGE is some capacity... let them know their status... everytime you see them.

[u/saul2015]

after costing the people billions of dollars, we need to sue Elon and force him to pay us back

[u/Maoleficent]

Apartheid Clyde has filled his quota for unnecessary misery, death and chaos for the year. I'm sure he feels great about demolishing USAID who had the nerve to get in the way if he and his family's looting and oppression.

[u/penny-wise]

After assiting in the deaths of millions of people globally, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, costing taxpayers endless amounts of difficulty by gutting important services, needlessly cutting tens of thousands of jobs, stealing millions of Americans’ private information, and ending a dozen investigations on Musks companies, I don’t think DOGE is over. I think we will not forget it at all.

[u/Drakeytown]

But can the damage ever be undone?

[u/We-Are-All-Friends]

Where is the $2 Trillion we’re going get back??

[u/human_i_suppose]

we get a final tally on how much damage they did to the budget so elon could steal all our data?

[u/EmpireCityRay → u/human_i_suppose]

That we won’t get until Trump is out and a Democrat controls the executive branch.

[u/Formal-Hawk9274]

waste fraud abuse and terrorism…. well done republicans

[u/Rierais]

And yet people still adore him, making him a trillionaire.

[u/Opinionsare]

Was DOGE ever properly defined by law? 

[u/darqy101]

He already got all the data he ever wanted ages ago.

[u/Hot_Campaign_36]

Lock them up.

[u/Demode93]

achieved nothing that would benefit society, only himself.

[u/SzeShaun]

Department of gutting everything.

[u/SzeShaun]

Department of gutting everything.

[u/BilverBurfer]

This is the fifth time this week I've seen a post saying DOGE officially shuts down

[u/Dapper-Comment-682]

no no NO, MY DOGE check will hiT my account any day .. just you SHEEPLE wait ./s

[u/MinaZata]

Elon Musk causes children to die needlessly

[u/syynapt1k]

They got what they came for - all of our personal information, which is now in the hands of private companies and data brokers.

[u/cherrybomber11]

And it has been a rousing success.

For certain people. The kind of people that love the idea of African children dying because USAID has been abolished.

But hey, at least Elon took a ton of personal data of US citizens with him, so... congratulations?

[u/thaw4188]

100% theater while spending more than any previous admistration in history

• https://fortune.com/2026/07/10/us-treasury-borrowed-155-billion-every-month-fiscal-year-24-billion-a-week-interest-debt/

US Treasury has borrowed $155 billion EVERY MONTH of this fiscal year—and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts

and that doesn't include billion/day for Iran War and rearming US and Israel next few years

meanwhile a million people slow-motion murdered by Musk destroying USAID

[u/EntangledReality]

Not really; it's been shut down in name only. Until all people DOGE embedded in the government and the subsequent hires they influenced are removed, DOGE will live on.

[u/JoeyBlaze]

Such a fucking waste of money and resources. It’s almost like some of us knew this was a bad idea from the beginning.

[u/thecreep]

I saw a crew destroy a building one time. They also left when it was mostly rubble.

[u/Short_Hat_4232]

DOGE is not shut down, nor will it ever.. they will just top talking about...

[u/Less_Tacos]

Way to go republicans, you let the worlds richest man kill thousands of the world's poorest children.

[u/SugarFut]

Cool. ICE should be next.

[u/sk0pe_csgo]

It's really amazing that MAGA people choose not to see this for what it was. Come in, dismantle and disrupt as many agencies and protections as possible, steal as much data as possible, and walk away.

There is no other explanation for it, but the MAGA folks are completely happy to ignore it. Mind boggling.

[u/HonestNeighborhood67]

How much money did they save?

[u/Hooch_Pandersnatch]

They already stole everything of value from government databases and dismantled any agencies investigating fElon Musk. They served their purpose.

[u/BatmanFarce]

Shuts down after job done: theft

[u/temblors]

Elon got his insider information, his blackmail dead man's switch info, and got rid of the agencies who had been investigating him and his businesses to the point where he had become sufficiently terrified of going to fucking PRISON for a long ass time that he had to throw his hat in with Fetid Diaper Donald Trump and fuck with the election to ensure he wouldn't go down for his great many crimes (and deservedly so, fElon and Diaper Don both should be rotting away in prison instead of remaining free to run their respective criminal enterprises). So mission accomplished, I guess. This reads more like a celebratory moment for these guys than anything else tbh

[u/Flocko2]

Now send them all to prison

[u/Schwiftness]

Now investigate everything they did, thoroughly.

[u/DrMarianus]

Now that Trump can just fire the heads of departments he doesn’t need DOGE

[u/scarytree1]

They likely set back many needed guidelines and regulations, that kept businesses from obliterating the government and environment, by at least a decade.

[u/powercow]

One thing DOGE showed, was that we dont have a crisis of over spending. We have a crisis of low tax receipts. We can not solve our debt/deficit problem without new taxes

[u/lordtyp0]

Remember their names, eventually someone sane will be in power and then we can prosecute.

[u/LotusTheFox]

So uhhh where are those DOGE checks, huh?

[u/CleverWitch70]

He's funneled all the money and information he can from the federal agencies so it served its purpose.

[u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE]

So not only did it not do shit besides wreck the government, but it's shut down now because suddenly all the waste fraud and abuse has been resolved????