[dekhn]

As far as I can tell, the Musk reality distortion field around DOGE is collapsing. Multiple agency heads specifically told their employees to ignore the request for 5 status updates, many employees in other departments simply didn't comply. At best Trump's support was "they should be fired, maybe". The DOGE site already made significant changes to their report that shows cuts, since basically all of the ones in the top 10 contained significant errors that were trivially identified. Republican leaders talking to their constituents are getting significant pushback about Musk's "asshole manager" attitude.

None of this is to say Musk won't keep messing things up, and may get more real support from Trump in the future, but the reality distortion field that allowed him to go into agencies with US Marshalls a few weeks ago is not working any more.

[bediger4000]

I think one of the reasons for DOGE is to provide Trump with some deniability. Elon screws the pooch hard enough, Trump disowns the whole thing. Trump will never provide more than tentative support.