This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm for Gladstone. Late last month, Reuters reported that Doge had disbanded that the group was no longer a centralized government entity.

Doge is dead. Elon Musk's Doge no longer a centralized government entity. Doge is dead?

Elon Musk's Doge no longer exists.

For all intents and purposes, Doge is done.

But according to Victoria Elliott, a reporter at Wired,

while Doge is no longer moving across the government

in a, quote, move fast and break things blitz, it is far from dead and gone.

One government source told wired that Doge operatives had, quote, burrowed into the agency like ticks.

Yes, many of the people who were a part of Doge in some shape or form in those early days when it was this sort of

strike force going from agency to agency, cutting contracts, firing people, vacuuming up data,

those people are still in government. That includes the young engineers that we identified

very early on in the administration, but also some of the more senior people. And for instance,

Joe Gebia, the founder of Airbnb, he's now leading what's known as the National Design Service.

And the mission of NDS is supposedly to redesign government websites. We are starting to see

some of their work get out there. You have Sam Corkos, who is now one of the highest people at Treasury,

in charge of pretty much all of its tech. And then secondarily, we need to think of Doge as a set

of priorities and values, this emphasis on technology of rapid adoption, consolidating data across government

agencies, and the emphasis on cutting what frequently the government has called waste and

fraud and abuse, but often really is just quite essential government jobs and contracts.

That is all still happening.

How about the Doge impact on the Office of Management and Budget?

Doge is not necessarily separate from the goals of the Trump administration.

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