The Department of Government Efficiency formally ended on July 4, 2026, under President Donald Trump’s January 2025 order, with self-reported savings still awaiting independent Office of Management and Budget accounting.
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, ended its formal mission on July 4, 2026, 18 months after President Donald Trump created the temporary initiative by executive order on January 20, 2025. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization said it delivered $215 billion in estimated savings, or about $1,335 per federal taxpayer based on roughly 161 million filers, but the figure remains self-reported because the Office of Management and Budget has not released a final accounting and critics have questioned whether canceled contracts represent realized cash savings. DOGE said more than 13,440 contract terminations accounted for about $61 billion and more than 15,887 grant terminations added roughly $49 billion, with workforce reductions and other administrative cuts making up the balance. The effort had already effectively unraveled months earlier as a centralized body, and its public savings tracker stopped updating after January 1. After the July 4 closure, a Musk post and Michael Saylor reply rekindled crypto-market speculation about Bitcoin and "sound money," though neither explicitly referenced DOGE.