Just four months into the administration, Musk abruptly announced his exit. “The fact that they even said it and then had to go roll it way, way, way back into the low hundreds of billions, tells you they didn’t know what they were doing.”Kamarck created and managed the National Performance Review, which aimed to improve efficiency and reduce costs, during the Clinton administration. However much has been cut from the federal budget, the urgency surrounding Doge in its early weeks and months prompted widespread disruption, and even mistakes. Minimal transparency, maximal authorityWhen Doge descended on the Social Security Administration in February, Chuck Borges was serving as chief data officer. Borges resigned in August, and filed a whistleblower complaint over how Doge left the public’s social security data exposed.

Source: Irish Examiner January 03, 2026 16:30 UTC