Tyler Hassen

DOGE’s Legacy Is Spending Controls That Persist Inside Federal Agencies

In his account of DOGE, former team member Tyler Hassen argues that its significance lies less in the spending it cut than in showing how much government money could go unexamined. At the Department of the Interior, he says, his team built a clearer picture of contracts and grants, required review of new commitments and reorganized support functions, though court challenges disrupted plans to reduce staffing. Hassen acknowledges that DOGE did not solve the deficit; he argues its controls and practices should continue inside agencies and beyond them.