Former Government Efficiency Department Employee: DOGE May Collapse After Musk's Departure

According to a report by Jinse Finance, a former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stated in their first interview after leaving the position that with Musk's departure from the Trump administration, the government efficiency improvement project he led is likely to stall. The Tesla CEO announced on Wednesday evening that he would end his special government employee status but insisted that DOGE would continue to operate. However, insiders revealed that the department, which had vowed to cut $2 trillion in federal spending, actually only saved about $175 billion, with numerous statistical errors. Software engineer Sahil Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months, predicted that the department would quickly "fizzle out." "It's like a dying whimper," Lavingia, who was laid off earlier this month, told Reuters. "The core appeal of this project was Musk himself." He expects DOGE employees to "gradually stop coming to work, much like children joining a startup that will collapse in four months." (Jin10)