The DOGE Experiment Didn’t Die—Its Echoes Remain in Washington

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Even after DOGE’s sunset on July 4, 2026, its radical cost-cutting left a lasting footprint: alumni remain in key agencies—from the Pentagon to the State Department and SSA—shaping policy and digitization through the National Design Studio, while lawsuits persist, costs linger, and federal spending rose instead of collapsing as promised.
- DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere. The Washington Post
- Opinion | DOGE is done. What happened to its records? MS NOW
- Zero savings and 300,000 lost jobs later, DOGE is officially dead People's World
- How To Run a Government Yahoo
- Trump puts DOGE out of its misery The Macon Melody
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