One of the very first things that Trump did upon assuming office back in January was to take an agency

that was first established by President Barack Obama and change that agency into the Department of Government Efficiency,

otherwise known as Doge, DOGE. He then placed Elon Musk in charge of that department with the stated goal being to

root out government fraud as well as general government waste. And the way that Doge works is similar

to an audit firm that you'd find in corporate America. Basically, Doge embeds several people into government agencies. And so, for

instance, they would embed, let's say one or two researchers into the EPA, the USDA, the HHS, and so on.

These embedded those researchers would then go through the contracts, they would go through the payments

being made to various subcontractors, they would

look for discrepancies, such as, for instance, a project being finished years ago, but payments

still being made for them, and so on.

Then the embedded Doge researchers would take their findings, they would give it to the head

of the agency, like the head of the EPA and the head of the HHS and so on, and then the agency can

choose whether or not to act on those findings. And what's been happening for the past three

months now is that DOGE is fining a lot of what they refer to wasteful spending. And then the

different departments of the government, they are actually cutting that spending based on DOJ's

recommendations.

In fact, according to the official tally, Doge's efforts have saved the U.S. taxpayers

roughly $160 billion, which is equivalent to just under $1,000 save for every U.S. taxpayer.

However, for a variety of reasons, most media have pretty much stopped devoting major

coverage to Doge's efforts. There was a lot of coverage at the beginning when you had a lot of

people getting laid off, but recently, immigration has taken a lot of the oxygen out of the news

cycle, and therefore, most people don't really know what Doge has been up to recently.

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