If any journalists are struggling to understand this it's because they've either been long conditioned to reflect the interests of the media ownership class, they're still too easily bedazzled by affluent bullshitters, or they're simply not very bright (maybe all three)

There is going to be nothing innovative or efficient about DOGE. It's a lazy pseudo government PR construct designed to try and convince the plebs that getting mercilously fucked by corporate power is actually good for the collective whole