Americans in a new survey are split over their views of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) the tech billionaire leads as well as federal workforce cuts during the opening weeks of the second Trump administration.
In the CBS News/YouGov poll, 27 percent of respondents said they believe “Elon Musk and the DOGE task force” must wield “a lot” of influence “over the spending and operations of U.S. government agencies.”
Another 27 percent in the poll said they believe the tech billionaire and DOGE must wield “some” influence over the spending and operations of U.S. government agencies. Almost one in three -- 30 percent -- said they believe they must wield “none” and 16 percent said they believe they must wield “not much.”
When it comes to “deciding whether federal workers should be dismissed or fired,” 52 percent of those in the CBS News/YouGov poll said that they believe Musk and DOGE are giving “too much” input while 15 percent said they believe it is “not enough” and 33 percent said it is just “right.”
President Trump has fired thousands of federal employees since his return to the Oval Office earlier this year, with Musk and DOGE focusing on reducing the size of the federal government.
Trump’s administration has defended the firings, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that the president “is only interested in the best and most qualified people who are also willing to implement his America First Agenda on behalf of the American people.”
The CBS News/YouGov poll of 2,311 respondents was conducted from Feb. 26 to 28. It has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
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