DOGE Started As A Joke. 100 Days Later, Nobody's Laughing.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : Last week, Trump noticeably described Musk in the past tense: "He was a tremendous help.
63% : But after the election, Trump announced DOGE would be a real entity, something to "provide advice and guidance from outside of Government."
50% : In March, Musk went on to call Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," a scam swindling Americans out of their payroll contributions for no future benefit.
40% : The glaring irony amid all of this is that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has resulted in widespread inefficiencies across government agencies.
40% : One reason people may be over Musk is because of his decision to attack Social Security, one of the government's most popular programs, as a bastion of fraud and waste.
38% : Trump repeated the claim in a speech to Congress, even though it wasn't true.
35% : " DOGE has changed the government, but not in the way Musk or Trump promised.
32% : By Inauguration Day, Trump had issued an executive order creating DOGE as an office within the White House, with Musk as a temporary employee serving for 130 days.
25% : A reporter had asked Trump after a campaign event in York, Pennsylvania, if he would consider naming Musk to a Cabinet position, something he had not previously suggested, and Trump eagerly said he would.
22% : After all of Musk's hype about this threat, the Social Security Administration wound up postponing and then calling off the cuts to the phone service for people filing benefit claims, saying it had figured out a new way to prevent telephone fraud after all. Democrats may not have a national leader or a coherent plan to counter Trump, but Musk's attacks on Social Security have made him an almost perfect villain, allowing Democrats to undercut Trump's attempt to position himself as a champion of the program.
19% : He later lowered his target to $1 trillion, which was still an absurd goal because Congress controls federal spending, and Trump has promised not to touch popular retirement programs that represent the biggest segments of federal spending.
5% : It was all memes and shit-posting when billionaire Elon Musk first suggested in August he could lead a "Department of Government Efficiency" if Donald Trump won the White House again.

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