Keaton Weiss asserts that the Department of Government Efficiency was essentially a pointless project because they refused to address Pentagon spending.

“the cuts that they were making were largely symbolic um in nature and very very small obviously as a percentage of the overall budgets, which it was obvious from day one if you weren't going to touch the Pentagon, there was no point in doing this at all.”

Kurt Metzger suggests that achieving significant budget cuts via the Department of Government Efficiency is impossible because the majority of government spending is tied to the military and police st

“when you look at who actually works for the US federal government, the immense majority, about 80% of people are related to defense and national domestic security. The US is more than any country on earth a military and police state.”