Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images To its proponents, DOGE is supposed to be a crack team of high-IQ specialists assembled by über-successful billionaire Elon Musk to force tough-but-fair efficiency and cost cutting on the out-of-control federal bureaucracy. Musk and his associates are already working to gut the federal workforce as quickly and brutally as possible, including layoffs and lease cancellations, and he has said DOGE aims to somehow wipe out a whopping $2 trillion in federal spending.