DOGE is good for generating headlines, it has done nothing so far that will cut any costs.

We have the worlds richest oligarch, that was not elected, not confirmed, directing OPM to send messages to federal employees and terminate them without following any of their procedures. After all the terminations are completed months down the road, the payroll that has been allegedly saved will amount to about 1/100th of one percent of the deficit. That's if we ignore the fallout.

Meanwhile, the litigation will greatly exceed the costs of the employees. As well as the unemployment benefits, back pay, etc, because procedures were not followed.

Then you have his desire to replace federal employees with contractors. I happen to know a great deal about how that works. The contractors are more expensive.

Then you have their tax cuts - extending the prior tax cuts and requesting trillions more.

Then you have more stimmy checks - Elon is already trying to curry favor by alleging bread and circuses, a "$5,000" stimulus might be possible.

Economy is tanking so of course, Trump is going to do more stimulus checks, $1000 checks for you with $18,000 in other pork attached onto the bill.

Trump holds the record for an increase in deficiet spending and 40% of the national debt is from his first term.

Anyone who attempts the same thing twice and expects a different result, is a bit insane. Ignore the headlines, look at the bigger picture....
This admin is NOT good at trimming costs. It is great at controversal headlines which people like.