The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly using AI to spearhead a sweeping federal deregulation effort, according to a Washington Post report citing a July 1 internal presentation.

The AI tool, called the Deregulation Decision Tool, is designed to analyze over 200,000 federal regulations and identify those no longer required by law. The goal is to eliminate half of these mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s return to office in January 2026.

Early use of the tool has already begun. It was reportedly used to assess regulations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and to generate deregulation proposals for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which the presentation claimed were “100% AI-written”.

A White House spokesperson told The Post that while “no single plan has been approved or greenlit”, the DOGE team is considered “the best and brightest in the business”.

DOGE—initially helmed by Elon Musk during the early months of the current Trump administration—has faced scrutiny before. One of its previous AI tools reportedly hallucinated contract values at the Department of Veterans Affairs, raising concerns about reliability.