Last updated: June 16, 2025
While Elon Musk’s brainchild continues to rampage through our federal government, governors and state legislatures are creating their own DOGE-esque bodies. In some cases, these bodies have been set up by executive order, while others have been codified in the law by (primarily Republican) state legislators, and still others merely consist of a legislative committee.
In all, we have found that at least 15 states have set up their own DOGEs, the vast majority of which were created after Trump and Musk’s DOGE. Several more states have had legislative efforts to create state-level DOGE bodies, some of which were dead on arrival and some of which remain in progress. (Note: We focus here specifically on DOGE-style bodies—efficiency committees or similarly structured groups. In April, the Economic Policy Institute found at least 26 states with DOGE-style efforts, which includes actions that emulate those of DOGE but do not necessarily create a specific DOGE-like group.)
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