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How Americans Feel About DOGE and Elon Musk

New York lawmakers are scrutinizing a state agreement that gives Elon Musk enormous subsidies to operate a Tesla-owned factory near Buffalo (.Credit...Jim Vondruska for The New York Times)

The idea that the government is wasteful and inefficient has been a long-held view by most Americans for decades, surveys have found. And Americans mostly support the concept of the Department of Government Efficiency, commonly referred to as DOGE.

But they generally are not pleased with many of the details, particularly the involvement of the billionaire businessman Elon Musk, according to a New York Times review of polls on the subject. And concern begins to transcend predictable partisan divisions when voters are asked about DOGE’s plans to access sensitive information such as the data the government has on Americans.

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When given a broad set of options for whether DOGE should continue, less than 40 percent of voters said that DOGE should stop its work entirely, according to a March poll by NBC News. But respondents who expressed support for DOGE were split between thinking it should continue at the current pace and thinking it should slow down to assess impact.

When respondents are forced to choose between two options — whether they approve or disapprove of DOGE — as many as 60 percent of respondents express negative sentiment.

Some pollsters explicitly give respondents the option of saying they are uncertain or have a neutral opinion about DOGE. (Other pollsters accept that answer only if the respondent volunteers it.) Polls that include this option show slightly less negative sentiment; in other words, respondents who might otherwise have said they disliked DOGE instead answered that they were neutral toward it.

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