For a while, it looked like DOGE itself could turn into a joke, merely an updated version of past deficit-reduction panels. DOGE burned perhaps too brightly, and 100 days later, we seem to be in the twilight of the Musk era in Trump’s government. Last week, Trump noticeably described Musk in the past tense: “He was a tremendous help.”DOGE has changed the government, but not in the way Musk or Trump promised. In March, Musk went on to call Social Security a “Ponzi scheme,” a scam swindling Americans out of their payroll contributions for no future benefit. “This is happening all day, every day, and then somebody doesn’t receive their Social Security.
