E59: I Worked Inside DOGE...Here's What Really Happened.

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What really happened inside Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)? And did its effort to overhaul Washington actually work? This week on Forged in America , Ravin Gandhi and Al Goldstein sit down with Tyler Hassen , former Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior and author of Inside DOGE: The Real Story from a Senior Insider . After building and leading businesses in the private sector, Tyler entered Washington in 2025 and found himself overseeing billions in federal spending. What he discovered challenged his assumptions about how government operates—and how difficult it is to change. In this candid conversation,…