Donald Trump's administration promised that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would save America trillions by slashing federal contracts, eliminating "waste," and shrinking the federal workforce. In reality, we got hack squads of political enforcers who rummaged through government systems, torched veteran-owned business contracts, fired thousands of veterans from federal service, and dismantled Department of Veteran Affairs programs designed to protect both veterans and taxpayers. So it's fitting, if tragic, that DOGE has itself been dissolved eight months before its chartered end. Named after Elon Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, DOGE was never about efficiency. It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and "We need something for Elon to do." America's veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein's monster, which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.