Musk recently shared updates on DOGE's progress, claiming they've made solid headway. According to him, the team managed to cut off funding for programs that were bleeding money with zero return. He pointed out what he called "zombie payments" - basically cash flowing to nowhere - estimating somewhere between $100 billion to $200 billion annually was just evaporating into thin air. The whole operation, he suggested, was about killing off that kind of wasteful spending. Whether these numbers hold up under scrutiny or not, it's clear he's positioning DOGE as a cost-cutting machine tackling government inefficiency head-on.