Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grudusky.

So if you turned on cable news or read a newspaper in the last few weeks, nearly every story

surrounding this White House has had something to do with Elon Musk and Doge, the Department

of Government Efficiency.

It's important to remember that Doge is not actually a government department, so it's not

like the Department of Education or the

Interior Department. Most people don't realize, but it's actually scheduled to end on July 4th,

2026. Now, let's examine what Doge was created for and what it is done. Doge was created by an executive

order on January 20th, 2025 by President Trump. The executive order states that Doge's purpose is to, quote,

implement the president's Doge agenda by modernizing federal technology and software to maximize

government efficiency and productivity. It later goes on to say that Doge will improve the

IT system, work with agency heads to promote interoperability between agency networks and systems, ensure data

integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection and synchronization.

Nowhere in the executive order does Doge talk about being used as a force to balance the budget

or cancel contracts or let go of federal workers.

It's very clearly a conversation about modernizing and protecting data to run more

efficiently, which is a noble goal.

Like the government should try to do that.

Yet most of the conversations surrounding Doge, it's about saving money and stopping inefficient programs.

So let's get into the data.

Let's get into the numbers.

The U.S. government is currently $36.4 trillion in debt, which is a number like most

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