Have DOGE cuts lowered the national debt?
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() The Trump administration faced another loss this week after a federal judge blocked an executive order allowing mass firings of federal employees and delayed any current layoffs until May 23.

It’s the latest legal setback for the Department of Government Efficiency, which has been trying to slash $1 trillion from the federal budget.

In March, a different judge ruled that probationary workers laid off by DOGE had to be rehired. While many of those workers are back on payroll, many are not working due to other cuts.

Overall, the numbers show DOGE has not been successful in its efforts to reduce spending. The department claims to have saved $170 billion, mostly by cutting government contracts, grants and leases.

But those numbers appear to have been overstated, with only a small portion verified and clear accounting errors in the math.

The cuts have also not brought down the national deficit.

In fact, the government spent $20 billion more in President Donald Trump’s first three months than the Biden administration spent over that same time frame last year.

The deficit has grown from $840 billion in January to more than a trillion dollars today, according to the U.S. Treasury a $290 billion increase in the past year, partly due to tax cuts that Trump wants to make permanent in his “big, beautiful” budget bill.

Some Republicans are raising the alarm about growing debt.

“We have to get back to weeding out the fraud, the waste, abuse. We are careening towards a sovereign debt crisis, and if we don’t get our spending under control, all of this doesn’t really matter because the dollar won’t mean anything anymore,” said Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C.

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