The United States Digital Service (USDS) was reorganized and renamed to the United States Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service (USDS), according to Executive Order 14158 of Jan. 20, 2025, signed by President Donald Trump.
“This executive order establishes DOGE to implement the president’s DOGE Agenda by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,” according to section one of Executive Order 14158.
In order to implement the change to the USDS with the addition of DOGE, the executive order explains Trump’s 18-month DOGE agenda currently taking place. They will go through the process of establishing a temporary organization. Former American health technology executive Amy Gleason holds the newly created position of USDS Administrator. Gleason’s job is to head the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization until its termination on July 4, 2026. Gleason’s job has not been defined by the White House, but it has been confirmed that she works closely with the DOGE leaders and Senior Advisor to the President of the U.S. Elon Musk. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that Musk is overseeing DOGE.
“The president tasked Musk to oversee the DOGE effort,” Leavitt said at the Feb. 25 White House Press Briefing. “There are career officials, and there are political appointees who are helping run DOGE on a day-to-day basis.”
Musk, as a special government employee, is not supposed to exceed 130 days working in any full year he is employed. That would mean Musk’s time frame with DOGE would conclude at the end of May. However, whether or not he will be involved further has not been confirmed, and until then, Musk plans on doing whatever he can to cut spending and maximize efficiency.
On DOGE.gov, the official DOGE website, they include a list of their most recent works. These are X posts containing their numbers of contracts terminated, dollars saved and records updated. DOGE has also cut jobs in order to reduce what they view as unnecessary government spending. In the month of March, there were 275,240 job cuts, according to CBS News, with more being planned. The current spendings, payments, savings and the amount of people in agencies are all recorded and updated on DOGE’s website.
“[DOGE is] the most transparent organization in government ever,” Musk claimed in an interview with Fox News.
DOGE is also facing 11 lawsuits, according to NBC News, due to the fact that people believe their personal information is being illegally accessed by the organization. All lawsuits are under the claim that DOGE violated the Privacy Act of 1974, which protects certain information from federal agencies. However, as of April 8, 2025, none of these lawsuits have caused DOGE’s work to stop.
DOGE continues to work towards what the organization believes is a more efficient government. They plan on more federal job cuts and reduced spending to reach the goal of saving the amount of the federal budget deficit, which is $2 trillion, according to Musk.
