Elon Musk ’s departure from DOGE signals a winding down of the Trump administration’s most notorious scheme for blowing up the federal bureaucracy and generating savings to be used for tax-cut goodies (though DOGE itself will live on, in part via Musk staffers now embedded in federal agencies). But there are alternative plans in motion to continue or confirm the disruptions. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill aims to cut key safety-net spending programs like Medicaid and SNAP over the long haul. The one-year appropriations measures that will fund most federal operations for the fiscal year beginning in October are now under construction in the House and Senate and will probably be voted upon after the budget reconciliation bill passes. Trump’s own budget , written by Office of Management and

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