Government efficiency was the premise behind President Donald Trump’s DOGE initiative.

On the first day in office in his second term, he established the Department of Government Efficiency: DOGE.

In the days since, 148,937 government jobs have been eliminated. Many of the cuts were sudden and done to critical programs, and some argue they were done with little regard to the well-being of the people of this country.

The DOGE program and mission were established by Trump and led by Elon Musk to make bureaucracy more efficient.

But there are many political analysts, observers -- and people in the American public affected by the outcome -- who believe DOGE backfired and the “efficiency” was an illusion.

Some of the programs the president, DOGE and Congress wanted to dismantle were designe

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