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Despite pledge, government spending to increase under Trump administration in 2025 Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency According to the new analysis, there will be huge cuts in this.
Who is the richest man in the world? Dramatically walked out of the White House in May After a public feud with President Donald Trump, DOGE was initially promised to cut $2 trillion in “waste, fraud and abuse”, a goal that was later reduced to $1 trillion and ultimately $150 billion.
DOGE claimed to be cut tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but this was impossible for outside financial experts to verify because the agency did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
But analysis by think tanks and the new York Times concluded that, despite DOGE’s claims, spending actually increased in 2025.
According to the analysis, “DOGE did not reduce spending.” CATO Institutewhich focused on federal outlays and employment, and executive branch expenditures that were under the organization’s jurisdiction.
“The federal government spent $7.6 trillion in the first 11 months of calendar year 2025, nearly $248 billion more through November of 2025 than in the same month of 2024,” the analysis said.
A Brookings Institution Hamilton Project Tool Tracking spending in real time showed that as of December 19, government spending rose from $7.135 to $7.558 trillion , An increase of about 6 percent.
CATO’s analysis continued, “DOGE failed to cut spending because most federal spending was for entitlement programs, where spending remains high due to structural reasons and policy autopilot.” “Congress alone has the authority to cut these programs, so it is not surprising that DOGE did not reduce spending.”
While DOGE cut thousands for foreign aid recipients and small businesses and local service providers, the Musk-led team claimed that some of the biggest savings “went wrong.” Times,
In a list of canceled contracts and grants published by DOGE, the newspaper claimed that the 13 largest were all in the wrong, which is one of the main reasons the organization failed to cut federal spending.
Two Defense Department contracts listed as “expired” claimed to save the US taxpayer $7.9 billion, but according to TimesThe contracts are still active and the savings were “an accounting mirage”.
The two false entries reported were more than the organization’s other claims, amounting to more than 25,000, the newspaper reported.
In response to the newspaper’s findings, a White House spokesperson said that “President Trump pledged to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in our bloated government.”
However, according to CATO, DOGE led to a 9 percent decrease in federal employment in less than 10 months, stating that “such a large decline has not occurred since military demobilization at the end of World War II and the Korean War.”
The Trump administration celebrated cuts to its Rapid Response X account. It says, “Federal employment is now at its lowest level since 2014 – a decline of 271,000 jobs since President Trump took office.” “Promises made, promises kept.”
DOGE is no longer a “centralized entity” and staff have been dispersed to other departments since Musk’s exit – amid his public falling out with Trump. In the months that followed, the two appeared to have reconciled.
In An Interview with Katie Miller, Musk, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, claimed that DOGE was “somewhat successful” in reaching its cost-cutting goals, but added that she would not restart the initiative if given the chance.
in an interview with Vanity FairWhite House Chief of Staff Susie Wills characterized Musk’s leadership of DOGE as a disorganized and poorly-managed initiative, which she described as having a “move fast and break things” motif, stopping only to inform the White House after plans were already in motion.
This applies to USAID, about which the chief of staff said Musk told the White House He was destroying it because he was “already involved in it”.