“DOGE is an advisory group. We’re doing the best we can as an advisory group. The progress made thus far as an advisory group is excellent. I don’t think any advisory group has done better in the history of advisory groups for the government. Now, we do not make the laws, nor do we control the judiciary, nor do we control the executive branch.
We are simply advisors.”— Elon Musk, quoted by the Daily Beast, defending his promise that DOGE would cut $2 trillion in government spending.