The Department of Government Efficiency—aka DOGE—was supposed to slash trillions from the federal budget but collapsed spectacularly in under a year, with spending actually rising by $220 billion. Elon Musk’s Silicon Valley-style shakeup crashed into constitutional reality, leaving behind wasted billions, fired federal workers, and a humanitarian crisis linked to aid cuts that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. Turns out, you can’t just disrupt government like a startup without real consequences.