The absorption of DOGE into the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), confirmed in 2025, was seen as a sign of the administrative state's tendency to protect itself. This is not cynicism, but organizational mechanics, which have been documented since at least 1984. The Grace Commission identified approximately $424 billion in projected savings over three years, but Congress and the permanent bureaucratic apparatus only implemented a fraction of these recommendations. The OPM's mandate is to protect the federal civil service from disruption. The author argues that placing the efficiency mission inside OPM is not institutionalization but organizational euthanasia. The fiscal context surrounding the absorption also highlights the need for structural reform, including transparency as a legal mandate for federal agencies to publish real-time headcount and expenditure data in searchable, machine-readable format.