The DOGE central office is closed but the agency’s offices remain operational

The Department of Government Efficiency’s central office has been closed, but individual DOGE teams at federal agencies that work to weed out mismanagement and potential corruption remain fully operational, Fox News Digital has learned.

“President Trump has been given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government, and he continues to actively fulfill that commitment,” White House Press Secretary Liz Houston told Fox News Digital on Monday when asked about the current status of DOGE.

Reuters first reported this DOGE no longer exists After speaking with Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kubor earlier in November.

“That doesn’t exist,” Kubor was quoted as telling the outlet.

DOGE terminates 108 “wasted” contracts, including “Executive Transformational Leadership Training Program.”

The DOGE policies are “alive and well,” the administration official explained on X, adding that the outlet “split my full comments across 2/3 paragraphs to create an eye-catching headline.”

“The truth is: DOGE may not have central leadership under @USDS. But DOGE’s principles remain alive and well: deregulate; eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse; reshape the federal workforce; make efficiency first-class citizens; etc. DOGE has catalyzed these changes; the agencies, along with @USOPM and @WHOMB, will institutionalize them!” to publish.

The White House explained to Fox News Digital that individual teams set up at federal agencies remain fully operational, while DOGE’s central office has been closed.

Fox News Digital did not immediately receive comment on when the office would officially close and what led to the closure months ahead of schedule.

Beginning and investigations

Trump created DOGE under an executive order in January that renamed the US Digital Service — which former President Barack Obama established in 2014 as a technology office within the Executive Office of the President — into the US DOGE Service.

Trump’s executive order stated that DOGE would continue until July 4, 2026. The executive order tasked agency heads with creating their own DOGE teams to find and eliminate overspending or fraud — teams that are still in operation.

Elon Musk’s official role in chasing Trump ends, but his political influence remains ahead of the midterm elections

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was the public face of DOGE for several months of the administration, serving in that position until May, when fireworks flew between a Trump ally and President Donald Trump over the “big beautiful bill.”

Musk criticized the legislation as “an obscene, pork-filled congressional spending bill that is a disgusting abomination,” while Trump accused the billionaire of attacking the bill’s cuts to electric vehicle mandates. Musk is the CEO of the electric car company Tesla.

Trump signed this massive legislation into law on the Fourth of July, while asserting that it would advance his agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense, and the national debt.

Musk was brought into the DOGE position as a special government employee, meaning he can only serve in the job for 130 days. While Musk has been the public face of DOGE for several months, he was not employed by DOGE’s US service and did not report to DOGE’s acting director, Amy Gleeson, according to the British Daily Mail. File a lawsuit It was previously reported by Fox Digital in March.

Democrats and federal employees have protested against DOGE since its creation, and have initiated subsequent investigations and mass terminations at various agencies, including holding protests outside federal buildings in Washington, D.C., specifically protesting Musk for his involvement with DOGE.

Protesters rally against Trump and Musk in “Hands Up!” rallies nationwide

The DOGE website promotes, As of Monday morning, it had saved $214 billion through “asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment omissions, grant cancellations, benefit savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”

The amount translates to $1,329.19 in savings for each taxpayer, according to the site.

The creation of DOGE was celebrated during the campaign as a key policy for Trump as he looked to downsize and streamline the federal government and cut potential overspending, fraud and corruption.

Musk played a key role in campaigning for Trump’s ticket in hotly contested states like Pennsylvania, where he frequently lamented how the federal government was hampered by red tape that restricted the private sector from progress, pointing to his companies SpaceX and Tesla as prime examples of the government crippling the tech sector with regulation.

“SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark,” Musk said from the campaign trail about how the government is getting involved in SpaceX, which is studying whether a Starship rocket would hit a whale or shark upon landing. “And I’m saying… it’s a big ocean. There’s a lot of sharks. It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. So we said: OK, we’ll do the analysis. Can you give us the shark data?”

The National Marine Fisheries Service had ordered SpaceX to conduct the study, he said at the time.

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Trump announced just days after his decisive election victory in November 2024 that Musk would lead DOGE alongside former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who left the team at the start of the Trump administration and launched a run for governor of Ohio in the 2026 race.

The president celebrated that the office would likely serve as the “Manhattan Project” of our era, as it looked to lead “wide-ranging structural reform and create an unprecedented, entrepreneurial approach to government.”

Trump repeatedly celebrated the office during high-profile events after his inauguration, including during his joint address to Congress in March, where he talked about how Justice Department investigations had uncovered government funding for bizarre initiatives, such as $22 billion in free housing and cars for illegal immigrants, “male circumcision in Mozambique,” ​​and “a $20 million Arabic ‘Sesame Street’ in the Middle East.”

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“Forty-five million dollars for diversity, equity and inclusion grants in Burma,” Trump said as he offered examples of federal waste on March 4 after thanking Musk and DOGE for their work. “Forty million to improve the social and economic inclusion of settled immigrants. No one knows what it is. Eight million to strengthen the gay community in the African country of Lesotho, which is unheard of. Sixty million dollars for indigenous peoples and the empowerment of Afro-Colombians in Central America. Sixty million. Eight million to make rats transgender.”