Doge isn’t a new department trump just renamed the department for digital services which mostly helped other departments to develop software and stuff to make their services more digital and easier to use and stuff.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted because you’re right. The department got renamed with the stupid acronym with the new administration and functions differently now, but it’s existed for just about a decade prior to this happening.
Executive orders created the DOGE service out of USDS, but also a separate “DOGE Temporary organization”.
it’s not clear how the temporary organization is distinct from the old USDS, or if it even exists in fact (i.e. has it been staffed up at all?)
The government seems to argue that many of the identified DOGE Team personnel are actually employed by the individual agencies they embed in under various titles and SGE authorizations.
So if the DOGE Team members are not in the DOGE Service, and not in the temporary organization, how does the command and control work?
Elon Musk is allegedly not affiliated with either of the DOGE organizations. He may or may not be a special government employee in a generic White House sub-office. He definitely, allegedly, doesn’t have any decision making authority. (But then, how come he talks about making a bunch of decisions on Xitter?)
There is a good legal eagle video on this. I mean good as in it explains this in detail, not good as in it made me understand what’s up and what’s down, because I still have no clue…
It was established on January 20, 2025, by an executive order renaming the United States Digital Service (USDS) to the United States DOGE Service (USDS), and establishing the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (USDSTO) within USDS.[6][7]
Doge isn’t a new department trump just renamed the department for digital services which mostly helped other departments to develop software and stuff to make their services more digital and easier to use and stuff.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted because you’re right. The department got renamed with the stupid acronym with the new administration and functions differently now, but it’s existed for just about a decade prior to this happening.
It’s a wee bit more complicated:
There is a good legal eagle video on this. I mean good as in it explains this in detail, not good as in it made me understand what’s up and what’s down, because I still have no clue…
You can follow one of these court cases here with free downloads of all of the docket filings. This case is about the BFS payment system specifically.
Are you sure about that? I’m unable to find anything that matches your statement.EDIT: I was wrong. You’re right. It was renamed.
First paragraph of the Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
Plenty other sources as well. Literally all you need to do is Google/bing/duckduckgo the words “United states digital service”
It’s even on Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service