Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the head of DOGE, has said he wants to cut the federal budget by $2 trillion a year and has begun a process of collecting information ahead of drastic cuts in many government departments. If federal departments stop DOGE data collection, it could have a major impact on Trump's plan to impose major cuts on the federal budget.

DOGE officials have been active at USAID, Veterans Affairs, Treasury and elsewhere, but little is publicly known about their work.

Elon Musk’s team of Stasi programmers at DOGE are feeding highly sensitive data from the Department of Education through artificial intelligence tools, according to an extremely predictable, yet still shocking, report from the Washington Post. The plan, according to the Post, is for DOGE to do the same thing at every federal agency.