Instead, his tenure has spiralled into chaos.
But the crown jewel of his failures is Doge itself. Once hailed by Trump as the answer to government waste, the department has fallen into disarray. Mass resignations, mounting lawsuits and financial blunders have turned Doge into a bureaucratic circus that undermines the President.
The Trump-Musk strategy of “flooding the zone” – a phrase coined by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to describe overwhelming the information ecosystem with disinformation – is beginning to backfire. The courts are catching up with the chaos Musk has unleashed through Doge’s mass job cuts.
Court documents reveal that nearly 25,000 terminations carried out under Doge were deemed illegal. Judges have ordered the administration to reinstate the workers, citing procedural violations and political targeting.
Federal workers and supporters demonstrate against Elon Musk and Doge outside of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) headquarters in Washington DC (Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty)Separately, the US Institute of Peace filed a lawsuit accusing Doge of attempting to unlawfully seize its headquarters. According to court filings, Doge staff arrived at the institute’s Washington office and allegedly sought to take control of its systems. When staff refused to comply, Doge operatives called the police. The courts have since blocked Doge from further interference with the independent organisation.
The department of inefficiency
Despite Musk’s boasts of slashing billions in government waste, a New York Times investigation found that the department’s financial reporting was riddled with errors, double-counting, and inflated figures.
The investigation found that more than 40 per cent of the contracts Doge listed as cost-cutting measures actually showed no savings at all. Some were mistakenly recorded as terminated when they were still active. Others were counted multiple times, artificially inflating the department’s reported savings.
At a recent Oval Office meeting, tensions flared between Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the scale of Doge’s layoffs. Musk reportedly accused Rubio of dragging his feet on government cuts, mocking him for only dismissing one Doge employee. Rubio, visibly irritated, pushed back, citing over 1,500 State Department buyouts.
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Trump, who initially backed Musk’s aggressive reforms, eventually sided with Rubio, announcing that future workforce reductions would be made with a “scalpel” rather than Musk’s “hatchet.”
Meanwhile, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins has reportedly warned that Doge’s cuts could jeopardise healthcare services for thousands of veterans – a key Trump voting bloc. With growing resistance from senior officials, Musk’s standing within the administration is becoming increasingly fragile.
Musk’s government experiment is fast becoming a cautionary tale – and one that even Trump may soon tire of defending.
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