Facing weeks of negative headlines and growing pressure from within the Trump administration, the U.S. DOGE Service is racing to finish the first phase of its assignment – slashing the federal bureaucracy and move on to what the team hopes will be seen as more constructive work: creating sleek tools for navigating government services.
Throughout DOGE, the need to find and champion positive achievements is seen as urgent, according to two people familiar with the group's internal workings. One key ally, General Services Administration official and former Tesla employee Thomas Shedd, told his staff "I need wins to defend" during a meeting last week, according to audio obtained by The Washington Post.
The effort comes as backstage turmoil over DOGE has begun to spill into public view: Only two days after praising billionaire Elon Musk, who oversees the DOGE team, in an address to Congress, President Donald Trump sided last week with frustrated agency heads, saying they not Musk are in charge of making cuts in their departments. On Truth Social, Trump called for more precision, writing that "We say the 'scalpel' rather than the 'hatchet." And in pro-Trump districts, voters have stormed town halls to protest DOGE cuts to government services and firings of thousands of civil servants.
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They cut save +$40 million in funding by cutting that Tesla CEOs meme agency, that’d be an easy W
I heard calling the protestors paid Democrat plants is a winning card, you should totally keep doing that!