To give $5,000 stimulus checks to citizens, DOGE must first meet its $2 trillion savings goal, which would make the idea affordable, the Columbus Dispatch reports. In a January interview with political strategist Mark Penn, Musk said DOGE had a better chance of cutting $1 trillion instead, according to USA TODAY.

DOGE claims to have already saved $55 billion in government cuts so far, but the figure has not been verified.

The proposed $5,000 DOGE stimulus checks for Americans are facing significant challenges, with a potential government shutdown looming and skepticism from lawmakers.

Dudek’s comments, delivered to a group of senior staff and Social Security advocates attending both in person and virtually, offer an extraordinary window into the thinking of a top agency official in the volatile early days of the second Trump administration.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) backed off a plan to scrap telephone services for millions of Americans filing claims with the Social Security Administration, just hours after The Washington Post revealed the sweeping changes.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the government-downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in "unusual secrecy.

A federal judge Monday ordered Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to release its records and comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, the latest in a string of rulings against Trump and Musk.

As reported by The New York Times, the Trump administration previously attempted to classify DOGE as a presidential records entity, which would allow it to skirt public records re