Trump Scrambles to Cover His Ass as Courts Zero-In on Musk’s Role at DOGE

gizmodo.com — March 7, 2025

After chaotically firing and then rehiring thousands of government employees, making big cuts to—and thus threatening to destroy—the most popular government program of all time (Social Security), planning cuts to funding for childhood cancer research, cutting programs for children with disabilities, threatening to make cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, attempting to dismantle an agency that saves consumers billions of dollars each year by fighting financial fraud and abuse, pushing for the firing of as many as 80,000 U.S. veterans, encouraging cuts to veteran cancer care, incessantly posting false information about its activities, and generatingeconomic shockwaves that have recently been credited with threatening to create a new and devastating recession not seen since 2007, Donald Trump has announced that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency will begin to refine its operations somewhat as apparently the government is running much more smoothly now.