Last week, someone plastered fake DOGE parking signs over real parking signs in DC. The signs bore messages like “DOGE Parking Only” and “Violators subject to fines up to $10,000.”

The signs, DC Councilmember Charles Allen wrote in a post on X, get an “A+ for effort,” but are not real. According to his post, the signs were found around 2nd and D streets, Southeast.

“It might be an attempt at being clever and funny with local parking rules and I give them credit that it certainly got some people’s attention,” Allen tells Washingtonian in a statement. The signs are a reference to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the brainchild of President Trump and his now-departed special government employee, Elon Musk. “But I think it says more about the very real pain and

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