RosPod One Shots

Did DOGE Help or Hurt?

By: RosPod Admin

January 1, 2026

Image taken from VOA

It’s not uncommon to hear people gripe about government spending. The national debt keeps on climbing, and there seems to be no way to fix this.

Recently, President Trump recruited billionaire Elon Musk to balance America’s books. Musk, for a very short period of time, helmed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

While DOGE was pretty active by making some big spending cuts and eliminating thousands of jobs, many argue that their rush to do so caused irreparable damage to critical programs and likely hurt millions of Americans.

Damien Schmidt, a recent Roslyn High School graduate, asks the question, was DOGE good or bad for the country?

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