This is a carbon copy of what he did at Twitter. Certainly not the traditional way to restructure a company. It’s incredibly messy and they ended up hiring some of the terminated employees back. My gut tells me that he had the DOGE team analyze when people logged on and off the system or when they came in to the office. Directionally helpful, but not perfect.Good example of why taking time and getting things right is more important than getting things done quickly
I think the primary purpose though was to show that Trump was acting immediately on another one of his campaign promises (government waste) and it was ammunition to get the CR passed (which it did). Accuracy was not as important as speed to get information out there. Between the border, DOGE, Ukraine and Gaza hardly any attention was paid to his cabinet nominees, inflation and a number of the other things.