James Fishback, the proponent of DOGE Dividend checks, has publicly criticized Musk over his feud with the president.

Even before the blow-up between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, the cost-cutting group’s influence was waning.

Elon Musk is gone but not forgotten at the Social Security Administration, as the head of the agency considers himself “fundamentally a DOGE person.” Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in a recent interview that he plans to use the engineers Musk brought in with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to revamp the agency to rely more heavily on technology and artificial intelligence for providing customer service,