The Department of Government Efficiency started as an inside joke. It’s since enabled the world’s richest man to become the most powerful person in the country, after President Donald Trump. And yet the department-that’s-not-a-department remains something of an enigma.

Elon musk has mulled having DOGE pay a dividend, but is it even his call? Here's what to know about the department and proposed stimulus checks.

By focusing entirely on expenditures and glossing over value for money spent, DOGE risks creating even bigger costs for the public sector down the line.

President Trump and Elon Musk have been on the same page as the Department of Government Efficiency project continues tearing through federal agencies.

Trump campaign funder and government disrupter Elon Musk has used unprecedented power to quickly eliminate thousands of federal jobs and shutter entire programs and agencies, using tactics that have raised questions about transparency.

Voters are open, narrowly, to an effort to tackle inefficiencies in government. But they are concerned about billionaire Elon Musk and how his Department of Government Efficiency is executing those cuts,

Elon Musk was on the verge of tears during a March 10, 2025, interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business, discussing his business challenges.

A crew of young Bay Area technology whizzes working at Elon Musk’s controversial cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency may face fallout from their job choices for the rest of their careers,

Vice President JD Vance has admitted that mistakes have been made by Elon Musk after taking over DOGE, but also said that he's "accepting" of those mistakes.