<p>President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to &#8220;further reign in government waste and officially implement&#8221; the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s &#8220;cost efficiency initiative.&#8221;</p>
<p>The order requires each agency head to work directly with the DOGE team to identify where government contracts and grants can be terminated or modified. The new process, which &#8220;shall commence immediately,&#8221; aims to reduce federal government spending or &#8220;reallocate spending to promote efficiency and advance the policies&#8221; of the Trump administration.</p>
<p>Trump signed the order after holding the first cabinet meeting of his new administration, during which his senior adviser, Elon Musk, who influences DOGE&#8217;s actions, spoke at length about the department&#8217;s goals.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 NEW: President Trump just signed an executive order to further reign in government waste and officially implement <a href="https://twitter.com/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DOGE</a>&#39;s cost efficiency initiative.</p>
<p>Here is the text of the order:</p>
<p>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United…</p>
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<p>&#8220;The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to address the enormous deficit,&#8221; Musk told a room full of Trump cabinet members on Wednesday. &#8220;We simply cannot sustain as a country two-trillion-dollar deficits. Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The SpaceX and Tesla CEO later <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-elon-musk-dominate-first-cabinet-meeting-rcna193836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the president and his cabinet that DOGE is working as &#8220;a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings to effectively find 15% reduction in fraud and waste.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s executive order seeks to increase DOGE&#8217;s ability to slash federal spending. The order requires &#8220;Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency&#8217;s DOGE Team Lead, [to] conduct a comprehensive review of each agency&#8217;s contracting policies, procedures, and personnel.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the president&#8217;s order, the DOGE team will then give the DOGE administrator &#8220;a monthly informational report on contracting activities&#8221; that includes &#8220;all payment justifications provided pursuant to that process, to the extent consistent with law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the White House said that Musk was not the DOGE administrator and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/26/amy-gleason-doge-administrator-musk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> on Monday that the administrator is Amy Gleason, a healthcare executive who worked for the Trump and Biden administrations. From 2018 to 2021, Gleason worked for the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), which became DOGE.</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s new directive for DOGE expands on the executive order he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gives-elon-musks-doge-more-power-to-make-the-federal-workforce-more-efficient-and-effective" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> earlier this month that required heads of federal agencies to “coordinate and consult” with DOGE in the hiring process and to “limit hiring to essential positions.”</p>
<p>DOGE and Musk&#8217;s increasing power and influence on the Trump administration has become concerning for some critics. Asked by a reporter on Wednesday if any members of the cabinet members were &#8220;unhappy&#8221; with Musk&#8217;s work, Trump said that some might &#8220;disagree a little bit,&#8221; but added, &#8220;For the most part, I think everyone is not only happy, but thrilled.&#8221;</p>
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