The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) impact on the US Government is a more slow and inefficient government.
The main goal of DOGE was to cut fraud and waste in government and make it more efficient.
Donald Trump selected Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run the department (Ramaswamy dropped his position later to launch a campaign for Ohio Governor).
One of the issues with DOGE was its firings of multiple federal employees. There was definitely controversy around the firings when a federal court ordered Trump to rehire multiple fired employees. The court order was later blocked by the Supreme Court. This raises the question if the firings conducted by DOGE were actually legal.
DOGE also fired around seventeen inspector generals, which is ironic because the job of an inspector general is to cut waste and fraud in their own departments.
The main issue with firing multiple people is you need people to run the government. The argument that if you have less people in government then it will be more efficient is completely wrong.
Government is not a one-person job, there are so many aspects in government that have to be run that it is just physically impossible to have a few people managing these things in a fast and efficient manner.
For example if a project has to be completed, it is probably going to get completed faster if you have ten people working on it versus five; that is just common sense.
Also looking at employee spending ratio, the federal government employs above two million people, and the government has spent around 6.66 trillion dollars in the fiscal year of 2025. Compare this to Amazon who has around 1.55 million employees and spent 569.366 billion dollars in 2024.
The federal government has a significantly larger employee spending ratio than Amazon. Based on this information, the federal government should employ more employees to manage their huge spending rather than cutting employees.
DOGE is going to or has already made the US Government more inefficient because cutting employees is going to make the government harder to manage.
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