13-07-2025
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
8 core staffers leave roles in US DOGE agency
DOGE has overseen job cuts across nearly every US federal agency. (EPA Images pic)
ARLINGTON COUNTY : At least eight core members of the US department of government efficiency (DOGE) have left their positions in the last six months, Politico reported today, citing internal records and sources familiar with the matter.
A senior White House official played down the report, telling Politico that senior people working the cost-cutting body spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk had only been taken on for fixed terms.
'It was never the plan for the highest levels of DOGE officials to make a career out of the government,' the official told Politico.
The report said that, on top of the eight senior staffers, at least seven DOGE engineers, most with high-level access across multiple agencies, have left.
At least three more are preparing to exit, it added.
Reuters could not confirm the report.
The White House and DOGE did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
Musk, the world's richest man, pulled back from his involvement with DOGE in late May.
He spent hundreds of millions on Donald Trump's re-election as US President, but the two men fell out publicly in early June and launched into an increasingly fractious feud.
DOGE – which has overseen job cuts across nearly every federal agency – was created by a Jan 20 executive order to modernise federal technology and enhance efficiency.
It is a temporary White House unit that absorbed the US digital service, not a formal department established by congress.
