The Department of Government Efficiency no longer exists as a distinct bureaucratic entity, but its spirit will live on in every federal agency as long as President Donald Trump is in office. That is not a direct quote from Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, but it captures the essence of what amounted to his eulogy for DOGE.

When businessman Elon Musk first proposed setting up DOGE, he promised $2 trillion in savings for taxpayers, saying that “there is a lot of waste and fraud” in the federal government and “we feel confident that a 15% reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services.”