Elon Musk Admits DOGE Was a Failure!
Patrick Boyle On Finance
Patrick Boyle
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
DOGE promised to cut $2 trillion from the U.S. budget. Instead, it delivered chaos, memes, and a black eye—literally. In this video, we unpack Elon Musk’s candid post-mortem on the Department of Government Efficiency, why the savings never showed up, and how the “Manhattan Project of our time” turned into a bottle rocket. From the Wall of Receipts to the IRS meltdown and USAID’s woodchipper moment, we follow the money (and the missing billions) using Treasury data, Brookings analysis, and some jaw-dropping anecdotes. If you want the truth behind the headlines—and a few laughs along the way—this is the deep dive you’ve been waiting for.
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| 0:52.8 | In the world of finance, a ride-off is a polite way to describe |
| 0:57.0 | a massive investment that incinerated capital with nothing left to show for it, but a tax deduction |
| 1:02.9 | and a lesson learned. In Washington, D.C., however, it appears that they call it the Department of |
| 1:09.0 | Government Efficiency. Elon Musk finally offered a candid postmortem on his brief but chaotic tenure as the spiritual |
| 1:17.3 | leader of the department. |
| 1:19.2 | You may recall that he wasn't the legal head as former leadership would have required |
| 1:24.2 | a Senate-confirmed appointment. |
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