# United States DOGE Service

This "Wiki Discourse On Government Efficiency" is a public interest, non-partisan v:original research project independent of U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) and aligned with its mission to analyze the U.S. federal budget, reform the federal bureaucracy, and shink the federal civil service. In the context of president-elect Trump's Agenda 47, we will catalogue, evaluate, and critique proposals on how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is or is not fulfilling its mission to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, and cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies", in the words of president-elect Donald Trump, who called for it to address "massive waste and fraud" in government spending. The DOGE a presidential advisory commission that intends to work through the Office of Management and Budget as its "policy vector". Legislative change will be led the congressional Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency Caucuses (DOGEC), which have advanced the Drain the Swamp Act. With systemic bureaucratic transformations to be implemented by the many Political and cabinet appointees of the second Trump administration, and by executive orders in the first 100 days, listed on wikisource at Author:Donald John Trump/Executive orders#2025, and also below in wikidoge's Timeline of implementation, synthesized with relevant wikipedia articles (which we will not recreate) and some original analysis.
The U.S. Budget deficit, (C.f. fiscal deficit), and the U.S. National debt, currently $35.7 Trillion as of 10/2024, which is 99% of the U.S. GDP, and expected to grow to 134% of GDP by 2034 if current laws remain unchanged, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The so-called DOGE (not actually a government department), is led by billionaire businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and possibly Ron Paul,
Musk stated his belief that DOGE could remove US$2 trillion from the U.S. federal budget, without specifying whether these savings would be made over a single year or a longer period, and later stated that this includes "some overage. If you try for two trillion, you have a good shot at getting one.” Deficit reduction in the United States
DOGE could also streamline permitting with “categorical exclusions” from environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act.

## Timeline of Implementation

* Primary sources: Whitehouse.gov, s:Author:Donald Trump, esp s:Author:Donald Trump/Executive orders#2025 and FederalRegister.gov, s:Portal:United States Department of DOGE Service, s:Portal:United States Office of Personnel Management, or through FOIA requests. s:Portal:Office of Management and Budget
* This WikiDOGE is a secondary source, will be in reverse chronological order, and link to wikisource when possible See #Inaugural Day 20th January 2025 to start at the beginning.
* Tertiary sources: List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump, Aftermath and reactions: w:DOGE#Actions within federal government and linked articles.

### Fourth Week

* s:FED, s:USC
* s:TREASURY, s:COMMERCE
* Timeline project is shifting to Wikisource and is now visible on the Departmental Portals, summarized at User:Jaredscribe#United_States_Federal_Government
* Original research and commentary will remain here

### Third Week 2-8 February

* s:STATE
* Fork in the Road Deadline Extended to Monday, February 10 published early February 2025 in response to an order staying the deadline issued by District Court of Massachusetts
* On February 3, Treasury Sec Bessent, with the Commerce Sec Lutnick tasked with implementing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund, pursuant to EO
* USAID office closed, pursuant to Executive Order 14169 Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, January 20, 2025, which was addressed to the director of the OMB and to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in whose department the USAID foreign assistance portfolio has been placed, and to where its website now redirects.[citation needed] The reasons for the decision were explained by Rubio while in El Salvador, on his first trip abroad. As acting administrator he has delegated to Peter Marocco, consistent with the America First Policy Directive, Executive Order 14150 to the Secretary of State.

### Second Week 26 January - 1 February

* Gained access to Accounts Payable at Department of Government Efficiency#Treasury Department
* Gained access to OPM's HR system for 2.2 million workers: w:United States DOGE Service#Conflicts with federal agencies over computer systems
* 27: OMB orders 2025 United States federal government grant pause in compliance with Executive Order 14151 of January 20, 2025 Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (judicially stayed on 28 Jan) 29: OMB rescinds the "grant pause" due to the confusion. temporarily blocked in 22 States and D.C., as unconstitutionally contravening separation of powers)
* 27: Fork in the Road memorandum sent to 2 million+ gov employees. Reactions: Fork in the Road (Office of Personnel Management memo)

### First Week 21st-25th January

* DOGE is leveraging OPM's authority and influence to execute the Trump administration's initiatives for restructuring the federal workforce. Charles Ezell, OPM's acting director, has been issuing guidance and memos to implement Trump's executive orders, — including his January 27 memorandum regarding Schedule F. This aligns closely with DOGE's objectives and workforce restructuring plans.
* US Office of Personnel Management#Second Trump administration workforce restructuring and security concerns
* Back to work in the office, pursuant to memorandum s:Return to In-Person Work January 20th, 2025

### Inaugural Day 20th January 2025

* Not yet added
* s:Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service
* s:Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing
* Added and annotated: s:Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency
* s:Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce
* Added but not yet Annotated:
* s:Hiring Freeze, presidential memorandum, January 20th, 2025.
** Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Director of OPM and the Administrator of the United States DOGE Service (USDS), shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition. Upon issuance of the OMB plan, this memorandum shall expire for all executive departments and agencies, with the exception of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This memorandum shall remain in effect for the IRS until the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of OMB and the Administrator of USDS, determines that it is in the national interest to lift the freeze.
* s:Regulatory Freeze Pending Review (Trump 2025) presidential memorandum, January 20th, 2025
* s:Return to In-Person Work January 20th, 2025
* s:Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship, Executive order January 20, 2025
* s:Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, Executive order, January 20, 2025
* s:President Trump Announces Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Appointments January 20, 2025
* Annotated: s:Donald Trump's Inaugural Address (2025), January 20, 2025
* w:Second Inauguration of Donald Trump

## Volunteer at WikiDOGE

Contributors to this WikiDOGE should start by acquiring primary sources in the public domain, whether through government website, through the Federal Register, or through FOIA requests, and publishing them at en.wikisource.org - where many of them already are - and listing them on our Timeline of implementation, above. Also check the #Reading List below, and Boldly contribute to the listed tasks. We will assume good-faith from all comers, including anonymous IP editors. Those who wish to use the revert button or make other editorial decisions, must first demonstrate good-faith and subject-matter competence, and agree to our Research Guidelines and Scholarly Ethics, and disclose interests (which will not exclude you). Otherwise we will not assume good faith or competence, and have no obligation to until you demonstrate it through constructive contributions in research writing, and informed opinions in editorial discussion.
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## Purpose: Deregulate economy, Shrink civil service, Reduce deficit and debt,

w:Template:Donald_Trump_series

### Deregulate the Economy

The legal theory that this can be done through the executive branch is found in the U.S. Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA and Loper Bright rulings, which rein in the administrative state and mean that much of what the federal government now does is illegal.
Mr. Trump has set a goal of eliminating 10 regulations for every new one. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews says 217,565 rules have been issued since the Federal Register first began itemizing them in 1976, with 89,368 pages added last year. 3,000-4,500 rules are added each year.
DOGE’s first order will be to pause enforcement of overreaching rules while starting the process to roll them back. Mr. Trump and DOGE could direct agencies to settle legal challenges to Biden rules by vacating them. This could ease the laborious process of undoing them by rule-making through the Administrative Procedure Act. A source tells the WSJ they’ll do whatever they think they legally can without the APA.
The Congressional Review Act—which allows Congress to overturn recently issued agency regulations—had been used only once, prior to Trump's first term. While in office, he and the Republican Congress used it on 16 rules. This time, there will be more than 56 regulatory actions recent enough to be repealed.
The Chevron deference had required federal courts to defer to agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes, but this was overturned in 2024. Taken together, with some other recent SCOTUS rulings, we now have, says the WSJ, the biggest opportunity to cut regulatory red tape in more than 40 years.

### Government Efficiency Manifesto of Musk and Ramaswamy

On 20th November, the co-commisioners of the DOGE published this manifesto in the WSJ:
   "Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections."
   "This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers."
   "When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies. The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so"

### Shrink the federal civil service

The government has around three million federal civil service employees, with an average salary of $106,000. Dr. Anthony Fauci made $481,000 in 2022.
The federal head count has ballooned by 120,800 during the Biden years. Civil service and union protections make it hard to fire workers.
Mr. Trump intends to quickly resurrect the Schedule F reform that he sought to implement at the end of his first term but was scrapped by Mr. Biden. These would high-level federal employees to be removed like political appointees, by eliminating their job protections.
WSJ proposals
The Administrative Procedures Act statute protects federal employees from political retaliation, but allows for “reductions in force” that don’t target specific employees. The statute further empowers the president to “prescribe rules governing the competitive service.” The Supreme Court has held—in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that when revious presidents have used this power to amend the civil service rules by executive order, they weren’t constrained by the APA when they did so.
Mr. Trump can, with this authority, implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area. The DOGE welcomes voluntary terminations once the President begins requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week, because American taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.

### Reduce the deficit and debt by impounding appropriated funds
#### Impound appropriated funds

Reports suggest that president-elect Trump intends to override Congress’s power of the purse by impoundment of appropriated funds, that is, refusing to spend them. the president may propose rescission of specific funds, but that rescission must be approved by both the House of Representatives and Senate within 45 days. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to exercise the power of impoundment in 1801, which power was available to all presidents up to and including Richard Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office, although one with limits.
He may ask Congress to repeal The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which was passed in response to Nixon's abuses. If Congress refuses to do so, president Trump may impound funds anyway and argue in court that the 1974 law is unconstitutional. The matter would likely end up at the Supreme Court, which would have to do more than simply hold the 1974 act unconstitutional in order for Mr. Trump to prevail. The court would also have to overrule Train v. City of New York (1975), which held that impoundment is illegal unless the underlying legislation specifically authorizes it.

#### Reduce the budget deficit

U.S. federal budget
The fiscal year, beginning October 1 and ending on September 30 of the year following.
Congress is the body required by law to pass appropriations annually and to submit funding bills passed by both houses to the President for signature. Congressional decisions are governed by rules and legislation regarding the federal budget process. Budget committees set spending limits for the House and Senate committees and for Appropriations subcommittees, which then approve individual appropriations bills to
During FY2022, the federal government spent $6.3 trillion. Spending as % of GDP is 25.1%, almost 2 percentage points greater than the average over the past 50 years. Major categories of FY 2022 spending included: Medicare and Medicaid ($1.339T or 5.4% of GDP), Social Security ($1.2T or 4.8% of GDP), non-defense discretionary spending used to run federal Departments and Agencies ($910B or 3.6% of GDP), Defense Department ($751B or 3.0% of GDP), and net interest ($475B or 1.9% of GDP).
CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $1.6 trillion for 2024. In the agency’s projections, deficits generally increase over the coming years; the shortfall in 2034 is $2.6 trillion. The deficit amounts to 5.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, swells to 6.1 percent of GDP in 2025, and then declines in the two years that follow. After 2027, deficits increase again, reaching 6.1 percent of GDP in 2034. The following table summarizes several budgetary statistics for the fiscal year 2015-2021 periods as a percent of GDP, including federal tax revenue, outlays or spending, deficits (revenue – outlays), and debt held by the public. The historical average for 1969-2018 is also shown. With U.S. GDP of about $21 trillion in 2019, 1% of GDP is about $210 billion. Statistics for 2020-2022 are from the CBO Monthly Budget Review for FY 2022.
| Variable As % GDP | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Hist Avg |
| Revenue | 18.0% | 17.6% | 17.2% | 16.4% | 16.4% | 16.2% | 17.9% | 19.6% | 17.4% |
| Outlays | 20.4% | 20.8% | 20.6% | 20.2% | 21.0% | 31.1% | 30.1% | 25.1% | 21.0% |
| Budget Deficit | -2.4% | -3.2% | -3.5% | -3.8% | -4.6% | -14.9% | -12.3% | -5.5% | -3.6% |
| Debt Held by Public | 72.5% | 76.4% | 76.2% | 77.6% | 79.4% | 100.3% | 99.6% | 94.7% | |
The U.S. Constitution (Article I, section 9, clause 7) states that "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
Each year, the President of the United States submits a budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (Template:UnitedStatesCode(a)) requires the president to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, presidents submit budgets on the first Monday in February. The budget submission has been delayed, however, in some new presidents' first year when the previous president belonged to a different party.

#### Reduce the National debt
## Governmental Mandate, Bureaucracy, Budget Details
#### Prior Analytics

Publish subpages that Propose hypothetical restructurings, Admit your premises, and categorize your basic assumptions, Radical thought experiments in government re-organization will be represented to multiple subpages. We will "Move fast and MAKE things". Here is what's going on now:w:DOGE#Actions within federal government, according to Wikipedia.
* User:Jaredscribe/Department_of_Government_Efficiency/Hypothetical restructurings
This section below is one such hypothetical, including a radical reform of entitlements, more radical than anything proposed by Musk or his allies. It may later moved from here to the subpage above, once we have policy or editorial divergences that require branching the WikiDOGE. This doubles as a Posterior Analysis of the Status Quo ante.
Actual Departments and Bureaus will be linked to their corresponding Wikipedia articles, those that Potentially exist will be marked as (hypothetical) or (potential). We will attempt to clarify the distinction witth timeline tables. This section may become subject to forked development and radical re-arrangements, with an inclusionist editorial approach enabled by subpages.

### Strategic Foreign Policy and Military reform

President-elect Trump has promised to "put an end to endless wars", to make NATO members pay their fair share, end the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, to renew the maximum-pressure policy toward Iran, and to free the hostages held in Gaza and/or ensure Israeli victory in the current multi-front war launched by Iran and its proxies. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte publicly thanked Trump for stimulating Europe to increase national defense spending above 2%, saying "this is his doing, his success, and we need to do more, we notice."
Nominee for National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
To oversee the U.S. Intelligence Community and NIP, and the 18 IC agencies, including the CIA, DIA, NSC, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence is Tulsi Gabbard, who is an isolationist of the Bernie Sanders camp, with a long record of dogmatically opposing President Trump's first term foreign policy.
"The first act of a statesman is to recognize the type of war he is in", according to Clausewitz, given that human determination outweighs material advantages. Therefore he is advised by West Point strategist John Spencer writing in the WSJ to avoid four common foreign-policy fallacies:
* the "abacus fallacy" that wars are won by superior resources, counterexample Vietnam
* the "vampire fallacy" that wars are won by superior technology, counterexample Russia's failure in Ukraine, (c.f. Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster, 2014)
* the "Zero Dark Thirty" fallacy that elevates precision strikes and special ops to the level of grand strategy or above (ibid)
* and the "Peace table fallacy", which believes that all wars end in negotiation.

#### Department of State

Marco Rubio has been nominated as U.S. Secretary of State, overseeing $53bn and 77,880 employees

#### National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy is grant-making foundation organized as a private non-profit corporation overseen by congress, a project of Ronald Reagan announced in a 1982 speech to British Parliament, in which he stated that "freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings", invoking the Israelites exodus and the Greeks' stand at Thermopylae. The NED is reportedly near the top of the DOGE's hit list.
It is had a pro-freedom and anti-communist mission to help pro-democracy leaders and groups in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and assisted the transition of Eastern and Central European nations.
The arguments being made by those in favor of defunding are that it "is a relic of the Cold War that has outlived its usefulness and no longer serves any pressing purpose in terms of advancing national interests", according to James Piereson[citation needed] Congress has raised its funding significanty in recent years, in a vote of confidence.

### U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. DoD employees ____ civilian personel, ___ civilian contractors, and oversees a budget of _____.
Nominated for Secretary of Defense is Pete Hegseth, who has been doubted by many Republican Senators[citation needed] and supported by Trump's base.[citation needed]
The president-elect is reportedly considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers “on leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence," and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. This would fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” consistent with his earlier vow to fire “woke” military leaders.
There are legal obstacles. The law prohibits the firing of commissioned officers except by “sentence of a general court-martial,” as a “commutation of a sentence of a general court-martial,” or “in time of war, by order of the president.” A commissioned officer who believes he’s been wrongfully dismissed has the right to seek a trial by court-martial, which may find the dismissal baseless.
Musk said, "Some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35," and later added: "Manned fighter jets are outdated in the age of drones and only put pilots' lives at risk." Bernie Sanders wrote on X: "Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It's lost track of billions. Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change.". It failed its fifth audit in June 2023.

#### US Air Force

Air Force is advancing a program called Collaborative Combat Aircraft to build roughly 1,000 UAVs, with Anduril and General Atomics currently building prototypes, ahead of an Air Force decision on which company or companies will be contracted to build it. The cost quickly exceeded the $2.3 billion approved for last fiscal year’s budget, according to the Congressional Research Service, prompting calls for more oversight.
“If you want to make real improvements to the defense and security of the United States of America, we would be investing more in drones, we’d be investing more in hypersonic missiles,” said Mr. Ramaswamy.
The program for Lockheed-Martin's F-35 stealth jet fighters, now in production, is expected to exceed $2 trillion over several decades. The Air Force on 5 December announced it would delay a decision on which company would build the next-generation crewed fighter, called Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), which was planned to replace the F-22 and operate alongside the F-35. Mr. Musk has written that "manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones.” In another post, he claimed “a reusable drone” can do everything a jet fighter can do “without all the overhead of a pilot.” Brigadier General Doug Wickert said in response, “There may be some day when we can completely rely on roboticized warfare but we are a century away.... How long have we thought full self-driving was going to be on the Tesla?”

#### US Space Force

The US Space Force's 2023 budget was ~$26bn and it had 9,400 military personnel.
SpaceX had a $14m contract to provide communications to the Ukrainian armed forces and government through 30th Nov 2024.
Is also receiving a $733m contract to carry satellites into orbit. The Pentagon plans to incorporate into its own communications network 100 of Starshield's satellites. Starshield also has a $1.8bn contract to help the National Reconnaissance Office build spy satellites.

### Department of Space Transportation

Mr. Trump's transition team told advisors that it plans to make a federal framework for self-driving cars. Mr. Trump had a call with Sundar Pichai and Mr. Musk.

#### Federal Aviation Administration

Musk has often complained about the FAA "smothering" innovation, boasting that he can build a rocket faster than the agency can process the "Kafkaesque paperwork" required to make the relevant approvals.

#### National Air and Space Administration

The National Air and Space Administration (NASA) had a 2023 budget of $25.4 bn and 18,000 employees. Jared Isaacman is nominated director. He had joined a space voyage in 2021 which was the first for an all-civilian crew to reach orbit. He led a four person crew in September on the first commericial spacewalk, testing SpaceX's new spacesuits. He promised to lead NASA in to "usher in an era where humanity becomes a true space-faring civilization."
In an interview Isaacman said that NASA will evolve as private space companies set their own priorities and develop technology. NASA could have a certification role for astronauts and vehicles, similar to how the Federal Aviation Administration oversees the commercial airline industry. “The FAA doesn’t build the airplanes. They don’t staff the pilots that fly you from point A to B,” he said. “That is the world that NASA is in, essentially.” He also suggested openness to new and lower cost ways of getting to the Moon and to Mars.
In September 2026, NASA's Artemis program, established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1, is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The program's stated long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate human missions to Mars.
The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in October, put out a report titled "NASA at a Crossroads," which identified myriad issues at the agency, including out-of-date infrastructure, pressures to prioritize short-term objectives and inefficient management practices.
NASA's costly Space Launch System (SLS) is the cornerstone of the Artemis program. has a price tag of around $4.1 billion per launch, and is a single-use rocket that can only launch every two years, having debuted in 2022 with the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon. In contrast, SpaceX is working to reduce the cost of a single Starship flight to under $10 million.
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free urged the incoming administration to maintain the current plans, in a symposium with the American Astronautical Society saying "We need that consistency in purpose. That has not happened since Apollo. If we lose that, I believe we will fall apart and we will wander, and other people in this world will pass us by."
NASA has already asked both SpaceX and also Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions and to deliver heavy equipment on them to the Moon by 2033. "Having two lunar lander providers with different approaches for crew and cargo landing capability provides mission flexibility while ensuring a regular cadence of moon landings for continued discovery and scientific opportunity," Stephen D. Creech, NASA's assistant deputy associate administrator for the moon to Mars program, said in an announcement about the partnership.
"For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!" Trump wrote in a post on X in 2019.
Trump has said he would create a Space National Guard, an idea that lawmakers in Congress have been proposing since 2021.
Critics agree that a focus on spaceflight could come at the expense of "Earth and atmospheric sciences at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which have been cut during the Biden era."
Regarding his goal and SpaceX's corporate mission of colonising Mars, Mr. Musk has stated that "The DOGE is the only path to extending life beyond earth"

### Department of Education and Propaganda
#### Department of Education

Department of Education has 4,400 employees – the smallest staff of the Cabinet agencies – and a 2024 budget of $238 billion. The 2023 Budget was $274 billion, which included funding for children with disabilities (IDEA), pandemic recovery, early childhood education, Pell Grants, Title I, work assistance, among other programs. This budget was down from $637.7 billion in 2022.
Nominated as Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon.
The WSJ proposes that the Civil Rights division be absorbed into the Department of Justice, and that its outstanding loan portolio be handled by the Department of the Treasury. Despite the redundancies, its unlikely that it will be abolished, which would require congressional action and buy-in from Democrats in the Senate; Republicans don’t have enough votes to do it alone. A republican appointee is expected to push back against federal education overreach and progressive policies like DEI.
During his campaign, Trump had pledged to get the "transgender insanity the hell out of schools.” Relying on the district court's decision in Tatel v. Mount Lebanon School District , the attorney general and education secretary could issue a letter explaining how enforcing gender ideology violates constitutional First amendment right to free exercise of religion and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

#### Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR

Regarding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Howard Husock suggest that instead of zeroing its $535 million budget, Republicans reform the Public Broadcasting Act to eliminate bias and improve local journalism.
For fiscal year 2024 , its appropriation was US$525 million, including $10 million in interest earned. The distribution of these funds was as follows:
* $262.83M for direct grants to local public television stations;
* $95.11M for television programming grants;
* $81.77M for direct grants to local public radio stations;
* $28.12M for the Radio National Program Production and Acquisition
* $9.43M for the Radio Program Fund
* $31.50 for system support
* $26.25 for administration
Public broadcasting stations are funded by a combination of private donations from listeners and viewers, foundations and corporations. Funding for public television comes in roughly equal parts from government (at all levels) and the private sector.

#### Patent Office
### Department of Law enforcement and Justice (DOJ)

The US. Department of Justice has a 2023 budget of _____ and ___ employees.
Nominated as Attorney General is Florida AG Pam Bondi[citation needed], after Matt Gaetz withdrew his candidacy after pressure.[citation needed]

#### Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

With 35,000 employees the FBI made a 2021 budget request for $9.8 billion.
Nominated as FBI Director is Kash Patel, who promised to "shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one, and open it the next day as a museum of the deep state. He said "I would take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them out across the America to chase criminals", saying "Go be cops." He promised to retaliate against journalists and government employees who "helped Joe Biden rig the election" in 2020.
Director Christopher A. Wray announced 11 December that he would step down. Deputy Paul Abbate will be the interim director, saying “In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray." Mr. Trump said "the resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America".

##### Reception and Analysis

His nomination "sent shock waves" through the DOJ, and his nomination has been opposed by many Republican lawmakers[citation needed], including former CIA director Gina Haspell and AG Willliam Barr, who had threatened to resign if Mr. Patel were to be forced on them as a deputy, during Mr. Trump's first term. As an author he wrote a polemical children's book lionizing "King Donald" with himself in the role of "Wizard", despite the Constitution's republican values and its emoluments clause, which prohibits both granting and receiving titles of nobility. He has been accused of exaggerating his roles and accomplishments, and deliberate vowing to violate the "Take care" clause of Article II.3, "that the Laws be faithfully executed" by placing personal loyalties, vendettas, and hunches above his oath to the Constitution.
He has also been accused of lying about national intelligence by Mark Esper in his memoir, recently again by Pence aide Olivia Troye, although former SoS Mike Pompeo has not yet clarified the incident in question. He was called upon to do so in a 11 December WSJ piece by former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who also wrote, "If illegitimate partisan prosecutions were launched [by the Biden administration], then those responsible should be held accountable in a reasoned, professional manner, not in a counter-witch hunt. The worst response is for Mr. Trump to engage in the prosecutorial [mis]conduct he condemns [which further] politicizes and degrades the American people's faith in evenhanded law enforcement."
He has received support from _____ who wrote that _______.[citation needed]

### U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Nominated as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has promised to "end the chronic disease epidemic" and "Make America Healthy Again", promises reiterated by president Trump in his inaugural address[citation needed].
Mr. Kennedy warned on 25 October that "the FDA's war on public health is about to end", accusing it of suppressing psychedelics, stem cells, raw milk, hydroxycloroquine, sunshine, and "[suppressing] anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma." He said that on day one he would "advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water," on which recommendation we demur pending further study.
The Wiki DoGE proposes to "end the chronic mental illness epidemic" and "end the epidemic of artifical stupidity" by elevating a "natural intelligence czar" to the same status as Mr. Sacks, who will be czar of the #Artificial "Intelligence" and Cryptocurrency policy, where our diagnosis and prescription is given. We invite all other naturally intelligent persons to join our effort at "Making America Mentally Healthy Again" and demonstrate the superiority of natural intelligence over challenge our robotic overlords and their oligarchic masters. By fait accompli, we will Make America Think Harder.
Nominated deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, for US Surgeon General is Janette Nesheiwat.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was authorized a budget for fiscal year 2020 of $1.293 trillion. It has 13 operating divisions, 10 of which constitute the Public Health Services, whose budget authorization is broken down as follows:
| Nominee | Program | 2020 Budget |
| Marty Makary | Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | $3,329 MM |
| | Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) | $11,004 |
| | Indian Health Service (IHS) | $6,104 |
| Dave Weldon | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | $6,767 |
| Jay Bhattacharya | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | $33,669 |
| | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | $5,535 |
| | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | $0 |
| Mehmet Oz | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS) | $1,169,091 |
| | Administration for Children and Families (ACF) | $52,121 |
| | Administration for Community Living (ACL) | $1,997 |
| Program | 2020 Budget |
| Departmental Management | $340 |
| Non-Recurring Expense Fund | $-400 |
| Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals | $186 |
| Office of the National Coordinator | $43 |
| Office for Civil Rights | $30 |
| Office of Inspector General | $82 |
| Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund | $2,667 |
| Program Support Center | $749 |
| Offsetting Collections | $-629 |
| Other Collections | $-163 |
| TOTAL | $1,292,523 |
The FY2020 budget included a $1.276 billion budget decrease for the Centers for Disease Control, and a $4.533 billion budget decrease for the National Institutes of Health. These budget cuts, along with other changes since 2019, comprised a total decrease of over $24 billion in revised discretionary budget authority across the entire Department of Health and Human Services for Fiscal Year 2020.
Additional details of the budgeted outlays, budget authority, and detailed budgets for other years, can be found at the HHS Budget website.
He is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and anti-packaged food industry activist, anti-pharmaceutical industry activist, who will be nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the mission of "Making America Healthy Again". He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group and proponent of dubious COVID-19 vaccine information.

#### National Institutes of Health

The NIH distributes grants of ~$50bn per year. Nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health is Jay Bhattacharya, who has announced the following priorities for funding:
* cutting edge research, saying that the NIH has become "sclerotic", due to a phenomenon has been called Eroom’s law, which explains that career incentives encourage “me-too research,” given that citations by other scientists “have become the dominant way to evaluate scientific contributions and scientists.” That has shifted research “toward incremental science and away from exploratory projects that are more likely to fail, but which are the fuel for future breakthroughs.” Dr. Bhattacharya's February 2020 paper explaining Eroom's law, as possible explanation for slowing of pharmaceutical advances.[citation needed]
* studies aimed at replicating the results of earlier studies, to address the problem of scientific fraud or other factors contributing to the the replication crisis, encouraging academic freedom among NIH scientists and term limits for NIH leaders. “Those kinds of reforms, I think every scientist would agree, every American would agree, it’s how you turn the NIH from something that is sort of how to control society, into something that is aimed at the discovery of truth to improve the health of Americans,” he said.
* Refocusing on research on chronic diseases, which is underfunded, and away from infectious diseases, which is overfunded.
* Ending gain-of-function research.
Jay Bhattacharya wrote a March 25 2020 op-ed "Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?", with colleague Eran Bendavid, arguing that many asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 were going undetected. The hypothesis was confirmed in April 2020 when he and several colleagues published a study showing that Covid anti-bodies in Santa Clara county were 50 times the recorded infection rate. This implied, he said "a lower inflection mortality rate than public health authorities were pushing at a time when they and the media thought it was a virtue to panic the population".
Dr. Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, then at Harvard, and Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta formally expounded this idea in the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, urging the government to focus on protecting the vulnerable while letting others go about their lives, which previous NIH director Francis Collins derided as "fringe science its into the political views of certain parts of our confused political establishment," and previous NIAID director chief medical advisor to the President Anthony Fauci "a quick and devastating public takedown of its premises."
Some suggest the same career incentives that lead to scientific group-think in the pharmaceutical industry, also explain conformist behavior during COVID-19, due to the threat against young scientists of losing NIH funding, jobs, and career opportunities, if they were to exercise in independent judgement.
“Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine,” DHHS Secretary nominee Kennedy wrote.
"We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!” said Dr. Bhattacharya.
“Dr. Bhattacharya is a strong choice to lead the NIH,” said Dr. Ned Sharpless, a former National Cancer Institute director. “The support of moderate Senate Republicans will be critical to NIH funding, and Dr. Bhattacharya’s Covid work will give him credibility with this constituency.”

#### Food and Drug Administration

The FDA in 2022 had 18,000 employees and a budget of $6.5 billion (2022)
Nominated as director is Marty Makary.

### Department of Agriculture and Food

Department of Agriculture (USDA) had 2023 budget of ___ and ____ employees.
Nominated for Secretary of Agriculture is Brooke Rollins, who had earlier served on the Office of American Innovation under Jared Kushner, and served as director of Domestic Policy Council. She has not endorsed the "Make America Healthy Again" agenda of RFK Jr. (and his colleagues Jay Bhattacharcya and others) who promised to "reverse 80 years of farm policy" and complains of the $30 billion/year farms subsidies. Kennedy wants to remove soda from food aid, and ultra-processed food from both food-stamp benefits and school meals, both of which are overseen by the USDA; an effort that in the past has been opposed by the food industry, lawmakers, and some anti-hunger advocacy groups.
RFK Jr.'s team had recommended Sid Miller for the role, and a group of farmers he had asked to vet candidates had proposed John Kempf.
He has also called for re-examining the the standards regulating the use of pesticides, especially glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide and the active ingredient in Roundup, used as a weedkiller in major U.S. commodity crops.herbicide

#### Farm Subsidies
### Department of Treasury and Reserve

Departments of Treasury has 2023 budget of ____ and ___ employees.
Nominated for Secretary of the Treasury is Scott Bessent.

#### Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Said Mr. Musk "Delete the CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies"

#### Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission

#### Internal and External Revenue Services

The Internal Revenue Service, with a budget of _______ and ______ employees.
An w:External Revenue Service of the United States was promised by Mr. Trump In his inaugural address.

#### Federal Reserve

Ron Paul and others have called for abolishing America's Central Bank, the Federal Reserve System, which Mr. Musk appeared to endorse. Instead of hosting a national debt, as originally conceived by Alexander Hamilton as a means of ensuring institutional support for a fragile nation[citation needed], Mr. Musk has suggested starting a "Sovereign Wealth Fund" as do Texas and other U.S. states, and many resource-rich foreign countries.

#### American Sovereign Wealth Fund

Proposed w:Sovereign Wealth Fund.

#### Cryptocurrency Policy
### Department of Industry, Labor, Commerce, and Social Capital
#### Bureau of Industry and State Enterprise (hypothetical)

America's central planning, state-owned enterprises, public-private joint ventures.
Mr. Trump has announced that he will seize TikTok from the People's Republic of China and establish a 50/50 partnership with ByteDance, and with other private and foreign investors.[citation needed]

#### Bureau of Society and Social Capital (hypothetical)

Mr. Musk has suggested as a base of negotiations that X/Twitter should not be banned in China, if Chinese propaganda operations are allowed free access to American markets.[citation needed] Like many countries and some U.S. States, China prohibits pornography,[citation needed] which is allowed and often recommended on X/Twitter.[citation needed]
The Wiki DoGE proposes a revived Works Progress Administration, Volunteer National service, and Mandatory national service for those receiving basic income through entitlements.

#### Department of Free Enterprise (hypothetical)

Proposed consolidation of government departments
The Department of Commerce has 2023 budget of _____ and _____ employees. Nominated as Secretary of Commerce is Howard Lutnick
The Department of Labor has 2023 budget of _____ and ____ employees. Nominated as Secretary of Labor is Lori Chavez-Remer

### Departments of Energy and Interior (hypothetical)

Nominee for Secretary of the Interior is Doug Burgum, who will also be Energy Czar.
Department of Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright admits that burning fossil fuels contributes to rising temperatures, but says it poses only a modest threat to humanity, and praises it for increasing plant growth, making the planet greener, and boosting agricultural productivity. He also says that it likely reduces the annual number of temperature-related deaths. (estimates from health researchers say otherwise). He says, "It's probably almost as many positive changes as negative changes... Is it a crisis, is it the world's greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No. .. A little bit warmer isn’t a threat. If we were 5, 7, 8, 10 degrees [Celsius] warmer, that would be meaningful changes to the planet.”
Scientists see a 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature as creating potentially irreversible changes for the planet, and expect to pass that mark later this year, after increasing over several decade.
He criticizes the Paris climate agreement for empowering "political actors with anti-fossil fuel agendas." Wright favors development of geothermal energy and nuclear energy, criticizing subsidies to wind and solar energy.

#### National Parks
## Natural and Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency Policy
### Artificial Intelligence Czar

David Sacks was named "White House AI and Crypto Czar".
AI magnates Mr. Sam Altman, Mr. Elon Musk, Mr. Zuckerberg, and Mr. Pichai were all in attendance at Trump's inauguration, along with E-Commerce and Media magnate Mr. Bezos. The WDOGE requests from them an intelligent recommendation on "How do we make America mentally healthy again?"

### Natural Intelligence Administration (hypothetical)

The WDOGE proposes a "Natural Intelligence czar" to address the epidemic of artificial stupidity, and to work in alignment of the agenda announced by the Kennedy Jr. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). These two czars should co-operate with eachother and with States' Attorneys general to address the pornografied and violent popular culture and media, which is the probable cause of the addiction epidemic, the deception and mockery epidemics, crime epidemic, the gender dysphoria epidemic, the anxiety and depression epidemic, and other artificial stupidity that can be cured by removing the intoxicant and de-stupidifying the popular culture.
Mr. Sacks can assist by directing America's researchers and their robots to do a searching and fearless moral inventory of the artificially intelligent means by which certain industrialists, oligarchs, and media institutions have victimized the population with such stupid pop culture in order to obtain their private data and their time and wealth, and avoid critical thinking. Our technocrats and media institutions have misused ther social influence to deceptively manipulate the minds of their customers, prostitute their body images, and exploit them for advertising revenue. As the national propaganda industry, our media and technocrats need to be criticized no less stringently than our educators, and both need to be held accountable to the demonstrated facts and self-evident truths. Which is why we consolidate #Department of Education and Propaganda.
Confronting the industrialized techno-idolatry and prostitution, will help to Make America Healthy Again, Make America Think Harder, and reduce the chronic mental illness epidemic. It is also likely to reduce crime and health care costs.
Any attempt to reduce these questions or answer them with mere quantitative analysis, or to measure success in mere dollar terms, will fail to account for the true costs and benefits. The vice industry has high financial profit, but has even higher opportunity cost, which cannot be quantifiably reduced. That is why quantitative methods are indequate. Any attempt to answer these questions with LLMs or other artificial neural networks, will result in hallucinations or delusions, for three basic reasons:
* AI agents lack understanding. They lack the common sense of a simply honeybee, the lack the weather forecasting skills of a simply migratory bird, and they lack moral intuition and philosophic wisdom of an average homo sapien, and always will.
2a. Inputs to LLMs are often biased: because too little written material makes the argument made here.
2b. their methods are formally invalid: the oligarchs believe their own marketing materials, because the robots consume propaganda, produce it, and produce what they consume, leading to a wilderness of mirrors and denial of reality.
2c. With invalid methods and biased inputs, the AI robots and the men who control them, leading each other all into self-deception, stemming from a basic denial of reality.
The Wiki Discourse on Government Efficiency challenges Mr. Altman, Mr. Musk, Mr. Zuckerberg, and Mr. Pichai and all their artificially "intelligent" robots to a contest of Intelligence, and to a public parliamentary debate. In lieu of any superior or even coherent answer from Mr. Sacks and his army of oligarchs, minions, and robots, the WDOGE nominates itself as the "Natural Intelligence Czar" until further appointments can be made, and invites Mr. Sacks et al to submit to our analysis, adopt our proposal, get better advisors, and put humans before robots.
#Department of Education and Propaganda

## Entitlement and Insurance Reform
### Social Employment Administration (hypothetical reform)

Even FDR was aware of its flaw in Unemployment_insurance_in_the_United_States: it discourages working and saving.[citation needed]

### Limited and Divergent Ability Administration (hypothetical reform of SSDI)

Proposed rename for SSI/SSDI
See: Social_Security_Administration#Old_age,_survivors_and_disability, Supplemental_Security_Income,

### Hygiene and Healthcare Administration (hypothetical rename)

ObamaCare started as a plausible scheme for universal, cost-effective health insurance with subsidies for the needy. Only the subsidies survive because the ObamaCare policies actually delivered are so overpriced nobody would buy them without a subsidy
See below: Department of Health and Human Services

### Other Welfare recipients

Small-government advocate Ron Paul has suggested to cut aid to the following "biggest" welfare recipients:
* The Military-industrial complex
* The Pharmaceutical-industrial complex
* The Federal Reserve
To which Mr. Musk replied, "Needs to be done".

## Office of Management and Budget

The White House s:Portal:Office of Management and Budget (C.f. w:Office of Management and Budget) (OMB) guides implementation of regulations and analyzes federal spending.
Mssrs. Musk and Ramaswamy encouraged President-elect Trump to reappoint his first term director w:Russell Vought, which he did on 22nd Nov.

## Personnel and Volunteers

Transition spokesman Brian Hughes said that "Elon Musk is a once-in-a-generation business leader and our federal bureaucracy will certainly benefit from his ideas and efficiency". About a dozen Musk allies have visited Mar-a-Lago to serve as unofficial advisors to the Trump 47 transition, influencing hiring at many influential government agencies.
Marc Andreesen has interviewed candidates for State, Pentagon, and DHHS, and has been active pushing for rollback of Biden's cryptocurrency regulations, and rollback of Lina Khan anti-trust efforts with the FTC, and calling for contracting reform in Defense dept.
Jared Birchall has interviewed candidates for State, and has advised on Space police and has put together councils for AI and Cryptocurrency policy. David Sacks was named "White House AI and Crypto Czar"
Shaun MacGuire has advised on picks for intelligence community and has interviewed candidates for Defense.
Many tech executives are considering part-time roles advising the DOGE.
Antonio Gracias and Steve Davis from Musk's "crisis team" have been active, as has investor John Hering.
Other Silicon Valley players who have advised Trump or interviewed candidates:
* Larry Ellison has sat in on Trump transition 47 meetings at Mar-a-Lago.
* Mark Pincus
* David Marcus
* Barry Akis
* Shervin Pishevar, who has called for privitization of the USPS, NASA, and the federal Bureau of Prisons. Called for creating an American sovereign wealth fund, and has said that DOGE "could lead a revolutionary restructuring of public institutions."
William McGinley will move to a role with DOGE. Originally nominated for White House counsel, he will be replaced in that role by David Warrington.
The WSJ lauded without naming them, comparing them to the "dollar-a-year men" - business leaders who during WWII revolutionized industrial production to help make America the "arsenal of democracy". (WSJ, 10 December 2024)

## History and Miscellaneous facts

See also: Department of Government Efficiency — History
Ramaswamy resigned his role 20th January to enter the Ohio gubernatorial race.
DOGE's work will "conclude" no later than July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, also coinciding with America's semiquincentennial celebrations and a proposed "Great American Fair".
Despite its name it is not expected to be a federal executive department, but rather may operate under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, so its formation is not expected to require approval from the U.S. Congress. NYT argues that records of its meetings must be made public.[citation needed]
As an advisor rather than a government employee, Mr. Musk will not be subject to various ethics rules.
Musk has stated that he believes such a commission could reduce the U.S. federal budget by $2 trillion, which would be a reduction of almost one third from its 2023 total. Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has said that this saving is "absolutely doable" over a period of 10 years, but it would be difficult to do in a single year "without compromising some of the fundamental objectives of the government that are widely agreed upon". Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, has supported the idea. Some commentators questioned whether DOGE is a conflict of interest for Musk given that his companies are contractors to the federal government.
The body is "unlikely to have any regulatory teeth on its own, but there's little doubt that it can have influence on the incoming administration and how it will determine its budgets".
Elon Musk had called Federico Sturzenegger, Argentina's Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State (es), to discuss imitating his ministry's model.

## Reception and Criticism

See also: w:Department of Government Efficiency — Reception
The WSJ reports that Tesla's Texas facility dumped toxic wastewater into the public sewer system, into a lagoon, and into a local river, violated Texas environmental regulations, and fired an employee who attempted to comply with the law.[citation needed]
The Economist estimates that 10% of Mr. Musk's $360bn personal fortune is derived from contracts and benefits from the federal government, and 15% from the Chinese market.

## Related Topics

* Second presidential transition of Donald Trump
* United States federal budget - Deficits and debt
* United States Bureau of Efficiency – United States federal government bureau from 1916 to 1933
* Brownlow Committee – 1937 commission recommending United States federal government reforms
* Grace Commission – Investigation to eliminate inefficiency in the United States federal government
* Hoover Commission – United States federal commission in 1947 advising on executive reform
* Keep Commission
* Project on National Security Reform
* Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency Caucus

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## Explanatory Footnotes and References

* ↑ Faguy, Ana; FitzGerald, James (2024-11-13). "Donald Trump picks Elon Musk for US government cost-cutting role". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
* ↑ Template:Unbulleted list citebundle
* ↑ "Ron Paul vows to join Elon Musk, help eliminate government waste in a Trump admin". The Hill. November 5, 2024.
* ↑ Healy, Patricia. "Elon Musk puts spotlight on ... Department of Government Efficiency? | Cumberland Comment". USA TODAY. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
* ↑ "WATCH LIVE: Trump holds campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York" (video). youtube.com. PBS NewsHour. October 28, 2024.
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