By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE... “Musk has no right to cut USAID.”... Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs... They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)... Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt... The agency will expire on July 4, 2026.