Hello and welcome to One Minute Recap. Today we’re talking about the so-called DOGE caucus in Congress—and why it’s officially dead.

Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, the caucus’s first Democratic member, told Politico, “The DOGE caucus is dead. It’s defunct. We haven’t met in months. We only had two total meetings in five months.” He adds that “Musk did it all on his own,” and lawmakers never saw the oversight or collaboration they were promised.

Meanwhile, caucus co-chair Aaron Bean insists their work is “just getting started,” with eight working groups ready to lock in reforms. But skeptics note that DOGE’s original goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget has shrunk to $150 billion. Even DOGE’s own website claims $170 billion saved—yet outside analysis suggests it likely cost taxpayers $135 billion, and independent trackers put real cuts at just $16 billion.

The DOGE caucus may be defunct, but the agency’s impact—and its fallout—will be with us for a long time.
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