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Why DOGE Failed to Slash Spending

There are no shortcuts to trimming the federal budget.
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

The reported disbanding of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—eight months before the end of its scheduled term—is perhaps the entity’s only true conservative accomplishment. By having its activities subsumed into the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), DOGE has at least shown that the Trump administration can eliminate a wasteful and ineffective government program.

Jessica Riedl is a contributing writer at The Dispatch and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Follow her on Twitter @JessicaBRiedl.

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