Information claims that the video shows that Obama will set up a “Doge department” in 2011

On March 13, 2025, an X user published a video (archived) in which former US President Barack Obama allegedly announced an initiative to cut government spending. “2011. Obama announces a Doge department and uses Joe Biden for it! “, Said the post.

A user asked Grok – X's Ai Chatbot – whether the video was real, and Grok found that it was “probably fake” based on the fact that it could find no Recording of Obama, the announced a Efficiency of the government's Ministry No such event showed in the archives in 2011 and 2011 from the White House. Grok also pointed out that Trump established matters in 2025.

However, the video is real. It is currently available in the official archive of the Obama -White House, which it released on YouTube on June 12, 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPD61WFMVK

Although the video is not generate with AI or changed and Obama a campaign to reduce state waste in 2011, he did not determine Doge. The campaign he announced was also not a department; It was an initiative under the direction of former President Joe Biden, who was then Obama's Vice President.

An executive order accompanied the announcement entitled “The provision of an efficient, effective and accountable government” and published the above video on the day after Obama's government was published.

In the video, Obama explained:

Everyone knows that it requires difficult decisions to get rid of the deficit. And this also includes reducing the billions of dollars of programs. But what should be easy is to get rid of the senseless waste and the stupid expenses that do not benefit anyone. We should get rid of waste, even if we didn't have a deficit.

He then identified areas that the federal government was able to reduce expenditure and claimed that they had identified around 33 billion US dollars in savings for a year.

Towards the end of the video, Obama Biden presented as head of the campaign:

We have to pursue every cent. We have to let the government work for you. For this reason, I asked the Vice President to lead a new effort in order to hunt incorrect poll taxpayers in every agency and in every department of this government. We call it the “campaign to cut waste”, and I know that Joe is the right man to lead it because nobody messes up with Joe.

Then Biden said and said that “the American people are entitled to transparency”.

Overall, the video is authentic. In IT, however, Obama announced a campaign to reduce government spending, not from Doging itself. It was unclear how similar the efforts of Doge and Obama's “campaign were a waste”.