The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), formerly led by Elon Musk, pulled no punches in a furious post after catching woke media outlet Reuters telling a total lie about its very existence: Reuters claimed that DOGE is no longer in existence, and DOGE fired back by noting that is totally untrue.
For reference, DOGE was frequently in the news during the first few months of the Trump Administration, and managed to create many entertaining headlines by slashing ridiculously wasteful government programs. However, Elon left in something of a huff after feuding with the Trump Administration over the need to make bigger cuts, and since then DOGE has been mostly out of the news.
Reuters then ran, on November 23, an article titled, “Exclusive: DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter”. In the article, the outlet claimed, “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate”. Reuters further added that Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told it, when asked about DOGE earlier in the month, “That doesn’t exist.”
That article was made ridiculous by the fact that, the very day it was released, DOGE had revealed a number of ridiculous contracts it had cancelled. In the post on X in which it did so, DOGE said, “Over the last 9 days, agencies terminated and descoped 78 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.9B and savings of $335M, including an $616k HHS IT services contract for ‘social media monitoring platform subscription’, an $191k USAGM broadcasting contract for ‘broadcast operations and maintenance in Ethiopia, Africa’, and a $4.3M IRS IT services contract for ‘Inflation Reduction Act transformation project management support’.”
But DOGE didn’t just let that commentary on what it was doing show that Reuters was in the wrong. It also went scorched earth in a specific post calling out Reuters for lying, noting that it is still in existence and is still working hard to save taxpayer dollars and help the American people.
Beginning its sharp and total rebuttal, DOGE characterized the Reuters claims as total “fake news,” saying, “As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse.”
Continuing, it noted that it is still hard at work and had saved American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone, going on to add that it would soon be revealing yet more ways it has recently cut wasteful spending. It said, “Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸”
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The White House, for its part, responded to the Reuters claims about DOGE through White House spokeswoman Liz Huston, who said, in an email to Reuters, “President Trump was given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government, and he continues to actively deliver on that commitment.”
Watch a DOGE volunteer describe the massive fraud inside Social Security that DOGE has found: