The legacy of DOGE is not that it failed. It's that it destroyed: 1. faith in real cost conscious governance 2. the careers of committed govt employees 3. scientific research and the biomedical breakthroughs that come with it 4. countless lives of the world's poorest

But Elon Musk got a trillion dollar pay package from Tesla and was dining with Trump and MBS the other day. so, i guess, it was a success on that front.