DOGE: Project 2025’s Trojan Horse

It isn’t a failure—it is sabotage.

If DOGE were simply an experiment in government efficiency gone wrong, its failure would be the end of the story. But it’s not. This isn’t just incompetence—it’s strategy.

DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, was never about streamlining bureaucracy or saving taxpayer dollars. It was a Trojan horse. And now, as its chaos spreads across federal agencies, the real agenda is becoming impossible to ignore.

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This isn’t about fixing government. It’s about breaking it—intentionally.

The destruction unleashed by DOGE is setting the stage for Project 2025, Unitary Executive Theory, and the broader authoritarian playbook:
✔ Project 2025’s goal of total government control → DOGE is gutting agencies, making way for unquestioning political loyalists.
✔ The Unitary Executive push for unchecked presidential power → DOGE is dismantling federal oversight and legal safeguards.
✔ The classic authoritarian strategy → Create chaos, make government fail, then seize more control in the name of fixing it.

And it was apparent from the beginning that DOGE was never going to work—not because government efficiency is impossible, but because its entire model was flawed from the start.

Remember our previous article when we told you it was never going to work, and it should have been evident to anyone with half a brain?

What if that is because it wasn’t just a mistake but rather the plan?

DOGE and Project 2025: Dismantling Agencies for Total Control

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the blueprint for authoritarian governance, outlines how the Trump administration should replace career civil servants with political loyalists, dismantle federal oversight, and consolidate executive power. And despite his claims otherwise, Trump is doing everything it calls for. Don’t believe me?

DOGE is the wrecking ball making that vision a reality.

• Mass firings & resignations → DOGE hollowed out expertise in key agencies, creating power vacuums that can be filled with hand-picked loyalists.

• Unilateral cost-cutting & AI-driven firings → Instead of strategic reforms, DOGE blinded itself to nuance, gutting agencies inconvenient to Trump’s agenda.

• Ignoring legal & HR safeguards → DOGE bypassed required oversight, acting as an enforcement arm of political purges.

DOGE’s destruction didn’t start with high-profile agencies like the IRS or Social Security. It began quietly, with agencies most Americans don’t pay attention to—USAID and the CFPB.

• USAID → Musk had falsely claimed it was funding media outlets critical of him and conveniently left out that it helped end Apartheid in South Africa and was investigating StarLink, making it a personal target.

• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) → An agency despised by Trump allies for its regulation of Wall Street and banking abuses, none more than Musk himself, who is plotting to move X into a financial institute.

These agencies were the test run—DOGE could gut them without triggering public outrage. Once that worked, they moved on to more critical agencies.

• The IRS → A long-time Trump and Musk grievance, now destabilized.

• The FAA → Musk’s SpaceX battles with regulators made this a prime target, and now he’s offering to help with StarLink. Convenient, yes?

• The SSA (Social Security Administration) → Offices were shuttered after its commissioner refused to comply with DOGE demands.

• NASA → DOGE practically gutted the Artemis project aimed at the moon, and now Musk’s SpaceX is primed to receive even more contracts and increasing focus on missions to Mars.

By the time these widely used services were hit, DOGE’s destruction had already been normalized.

And who benefits? Not the public. Not taxpayers. Only the people who want an unchallenged grip on power.

Check the Coffman Chronicle for our coverage of DOGE explaining each of these stories.

DOGE and the Unitary Executive Theory: A Power Grab Disguised as Reform

The Unitary Executive Theory argues that the president should have near-total control over the executive branch—free from bureaucratic checks, congressional oversight, or legal barriers.

DOGE is an operational test of that philosophy.

• Stripping away institutional knowledge → Career civil servants, the last line of defense against corruption, are being forced out.

• Consolidating power under Musk & political appointees → Agencies now answer directly to Trump and his allies rather than acting as independent entities.

• Bypassing oversight → DOGE ignored its own HR and legal teams, operating outside the standard hiring and firing processes.

The result? DOGE has made the executive branch less accountable, more politicized, and more centralized under Trump’s direct control.

This isn’t about making government more efficient. It’s about making it easier to control.

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The Classic Authoritarian Playbook: Manufacturing a Crisis to Justify More Power

If this all feels familiar, it should—this is how autocrats dismantle democratic institutions.

🔹 Step 1: Break Government, Then Blame It

• DOGE’s destruction of federal agencies isn’t accidental—it’s engineered.

• Once tax refunds are delayed, Social Security offices are shuttered, veterans face backlogs, and food safety inspections collapse, Trump and his allies will point to government dysfunction as proof it must be “restructured” further.

🔹 Step 2: Replace Experts with Loyalists

• DOGE isn’t fixing government—it’s making it easier to control.

• The people being forced out—IT experts, cybersecurity teams, nuclear security officials—are being replaced by Musk appointees and MAGA loyalists.

🔹 Step 3: Use Public Frustration to Push Authoritarian Reforms

• Once people lose trust in government, it’s easier to sell them the idea that a “strong leader” needs to take drastic action to fix it.

• That’s when the real power grabs begin.

And those inside DOGE knew it.

When 21 career civil servants resigned in protest, they made it clear that DOGE isn’t just reckless — it is dangerous.

See our analysis below.

This isn’t a theory. It’s happening in real-time.

DOGE Is a Tool, Not a Failure

From the moment DOGE was created, its destruction was inevitable—because destruction was the point.

It was never a serious policy initiative. It was never meant to improve efficiency, cut actual waste, or modernize agencies. It was always meant to serve a political purpose.

DOGE hollowed out expertise.
DOGE destabilized critical agencies.
DOGE set the stage for a government built on loyalty over law, chaos over competence, and obedience over oversight.

This isn’t about running government better.
It’s about making sure the president never has to answer to it again.

And unless it’s stopped, the chaos it’s creating won’t just be a temporary disruption; it will be a permanent transformation of government itself.

It’s time to take the DOGE out.

Sources: See previous and attached articles for all sources