Goodbye Doge

再见了,狗狗君

World Business Report

2025-11-25

26 分钟
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The US federal government's Department for Government Efficiency, Doge, has ended its cost-cutting mission eight months early. Bisi Adebayo examines whether it achieved what it set out to do. And as the latest iteration of the Wicked movie franchise hits the big screen, we ask what its success can tell us about the resilience of Hollywood.
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • It was the equivalent of Godzilla rampaging through the city and destroying things.

  • It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I am BC at De Beyer.

  • Coming up, the Trump-Moscow efficiently drive known as Doge is gone.

  • We ask what the fallout means for the people caught in the middle.

  • And at the box office,

  • Wicked Castles spell on cinema owners with one of the biggest openings of the year.

  • Plus, Real Madrid plans to open the door for the first time to outside investors.

  • So the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk is no more,

  • wrapped up eight months after it's ahead of its allotted time.

  • But first, let's remind ourselves how the newly reappointed President Trump first announced it.

  • To further combat inflation, we will not only be reducing the cost of energy,

  • but will be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars.

  • And to that end, I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency, GOGE.

  • Elon Musk waved a chainsaw as he launched DOGE,

  • echoing the actions of the Argentine President, Avya Malay,

  • where the Tesla boss put together a team and launched into a heavy series of government department cutbacks.

  • The Trump administration said in August it had fired about 300,000 federal workers,

  • crediting the vast majority to doors.