This means that dogies budget is several times the annual budget to maintain the Whitehouse itself including staff salaries.
The Department of Government Efficiency—Elon Musk’s secretive government cost-cutting task force—has doubled its budget from $6.75 million to $14.4 million, according to an updated financial filing. President Donald Trump has tasked DOGE with cutting government costs by restructuring federal agencies and eliminating fraudulent spending. The group is operating without congressional oversight and has so far tried to purge the civil service, access the federal payments system, cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts, and eliminate entire agencies.
Musk said on Tuesday his team had identified more than $1 trillion worth of “fraud” and “abuse,” though he failed to provide evidence of a single example.