One Musk ally, Michael Russo, was installed as the SSA’s chief information officer. He pushed the then-acting commissioner to have agency workers analyze the data the Tesla billionaire and his team were claiming to be evidence of fraudulent payments.

According to The New York Times, Team Musk’s Social Security cuts were based on lies and “misinterpreted data.”

Elon Musk's actions in the White House violated norms "at an astonishing pace" for government workers, Elizabeth Warren's office said in a report.

The Department of Government Efficiency, the brainchild of Elon Musk that upended Washington with its rapid-fire drive to slash thousands of federal jobs and cut costs, is effectively leaderless now that the billionaire and his deputy have stepped down,

Under Trump and Musk, DOGE has become a largely male entity. Of the 109 staff members ProPublica has identified, 90 are men and 19 are women, making the group 83% male. That’s a far higher percentage of men than work in the executive branch as a whole, where 54% of staffers are male, according to 2024 data from the Office of Personnel Management.

The US House approved $9.4 billion in Elon Musk’s DOGE federal spending cuts, with Republican moderates swallowing their concerns about cutting previously approved spending for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

At least 26 states have launched their own version of DOGE, but some are avoiding Elon Musk's 'chainsaw' approach.