By Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made by History March 3, 2025 2:13 PM EST B efore there was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there was Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s campaign to “reinvent government.” As alarmed critics point to the unprecedented developments of DOGE’s early weeks—aggressive incursions into the U.S. government’s multi-trillion dollar payment infrastructure, the abrupt defunding of USAID, racist comments by youthful engineers and the specter of mass layoffs —Elon