Elon Musk’s government-cutting machine, the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), is pushing the US economy into dangerous territory. Within the first two weeks of its existence, D.O.G.E announced it could slash 20% of the annual $1.

President Donald Trump had said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk's DOGE, which has swept through federal agencies searching for spending cuts as part of Trump's overhaul and shrinking of the U.