The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending a controversial initiative launched as a symbol of the US president's pledge to slash the government's size that was once headed up by Elon Musk.

"That doesn't exist," Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told news agency Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE's status.

It is no longer a "centralised entity," Mr Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration on the end of DOGE.

The agency, set up in January, made dramatic forays across Washington in the early months of Mr Trump's second term to rapidly shrink federal agencies, cut their budgets or redirect their work to Trump priorities.

The OPM, the federal

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