Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE:
› “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.
They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt.
The agency will expire on July 4, 2026.