Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission
US President Donald Trump has re-named the US Digital Service the Department of Government Efficiency and given it a mission to modernize government technology.
The Department (DOGE) is a pet project of Elon Musk, who in a November 2024 article described its mission as “to cut the federal government down to size” through “regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings.” Trump enthusiastically endorsed that vision and promised that creating DOGE would be one of his early actions once he resumed the presidency and that Musk would lead it.
Cost-cutting, however, is not explicitly mentioned in the order, which instead gives DOGE the job of “Modernizing Federal Technology and Software to Maximize Efficiency and Productivity.”
DOGE’s tech-centric mission is reflected in the fact it will inhabit the US Digital Service (USDS), which pursues a mission to “deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design.”
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