DOGE is costing the US taxpayer a fortune. In addition to the long-term losses that are going to result from the slashing of funding from all the major science institutions in the country, and the reversion to pre-civil-rights era where states could fail to provide education to any group they didn't like, Federal workers are currently being paid salaries for work they can't do because they're being denied entry to the building they have to be in to access the data needed to do their work.
It is also destroying the rule of law, such as it is. I mean, the leftists I grew up around always believed the US was a latently-fascist country that would one day turn so explicitly, because its political system was so ramshackle and its culture so rotten - and that appears to be what is happening. Slightly to my surprise (as I long ago decided those leftists were wrong about most things), that belief appears to be being born out.
For all the talk of 'freedom' and how guns protect it, it appears to be remarkably easy to just impose arbitrary rule by lawless dictat on the US - there's absolutely no opposition, it turns out, all you have to do is just ignore the laws and the courts and nobody does anything to stop you.
US democracy appears to have rotted from the inside out, and is collapsing without a fight.