I remember Elon talked about fiddling with Treasury payment accounts as if that was the secret master key that would fix the budget problem and knew this effort was cooked.
DOGE failed because the plan was to massively cut spending without Congressional involvement, and the cuts came from the workforce reductions or stuff like foreign aid and fraud.View quoted post on X
That's not how it works in process and the focus of cuts isn't where most of the spending is.