WASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump and multibillionaire Elon Musk deal with the fallout of their public dispute, Republican lawmakers still believe the original mission of DOGE can be carried out.

And the absence of Musk is not likely to hinder that progress, according to a Utah congressman.

“We’ve always been a little frustrated that there was such limited interaction from the DOGE administration to the DOGE caucus — we couldn’t really identify where we were to lean in,” said Rep. Blake Moore, co-chair of the congressional DOGE caucus. “And we had a ton of folks ready to support but there just wasn’t that interaction.”

Moore acknowledged that much of Musk’s role over the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump’s big ambitions to slash government spending amounted to a lo

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