Editor’s Corner: Difficulties Documenting DOGE

Abstract

For many, the US Department of Government Efficiency, or
DOGE, is synonymous with President Donald Trump’s second
term—for good reason, as it featured heavily in the first months
of his presidency. State legislatures, especially in Republican
majority states, also launched their own versions of DOGE or
other “government efficiency” initiatives after DOGE’s establishment.
1 DOGE’s early prominence and large-scale slashing
of government resources makes both its dissolution and how
said dissolution was announced initially puzzling