How is history going to remember DOGE?
The Department of Government Efficiency, an Elon Musk brainchild intended to chop away at our colossal federal debt, was birthed with a blast and died with a whimper. And the emerging bipartisan consensus appears to be that it simply failed: Elon tried to chainsaw the government like he did to Twitter and got bounced by the deep state.
Tyler Hassen has a different story. He worked for DOGE for nearly six months and was one of its most powerful members. And he just published a new book, the first official insider account of the DOGE experiment.
He talked with me about the operational “inefficiencies” he found at the Department of the Interior (including an $850 million contract for a customer satisfaction survey program no one used), what it was like to work with Elon (“He’s a patriot”), and the personal costs of working for DOGE.
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