Trump also signed an order renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. The Digital Service, initially created by President Barack Obama in 2014 to modernize government technology, is now part of the broader DOGE framework,

President Donald Trump on Monday established a “Department of Government Efficiency,” declared a national energy emergency and reinstated a policy to make it easier to fire federal employees. Trump’s moves to overhaul the federal government and boost fossil fuel production came as the president signed a flurry of executive orders Monday inside the Oval Office.

There’s now a Department of Government Efficiency and it reports directly up to Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Trump late Monday issued an executive order — one of many Day 1 executive actions — formally establishing DOGE as an agency housed within the Executive Office of the President.

The new Department of Government Efficiency, President Donald Trump’s special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, has formally joined the government whose size it is supposed to help shrink.