DOGE Has Disrupted Washington — But Not Its Bottom Line

In the three months since Elon Musk and his cadre of tech allies transformed the United States Digital Service into the U.S. DOGE Service, there are few areas of the country untouched by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

But DOGE hasn’t actually cut America’s bottom line.

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal government has spent $171 billion more than the same period in the previous two years, a NOTUS analysis of daily Treasury statements shows.