Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America's Geek Squad | WIRED

Addressing a single executive order from Donald Trump’s voluminous first-day edicts is like singling out one bullet in a burst from an AK-47. But one of them hit me in the gut. That is “Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency.’’ The acronym for that name is DOGE (named after a memecoin), and it’s the Elon Musk–led effort to cut government spending by a trillion bucks or two. Though DOGE was, until this week, pitched as an outside body, […]
Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America's Geek Squad | WIRED