Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“When the ‘Department of Government Efficiency,’ proposed by shadow president Elon Musk, was reimagined from an outside advisory group making recommendations on federal spending to a temporary organization inside the U.S. Digital Service, a division of the Executive Office of the President, I thought it was partially a way to avoid transparency and disclosure rules for advisory commissions. The U.S. Digital Service’s mission is to modernize and improve government technology and software, and a lot of people scoffed at the idea that a plan to cut trillions of dollars in spending would suddenly devolve into an IT upgrade. But if you read the executive order that made this transformation, it outlines DOGE’s task clearly. There’s a little clause in there ordering agencies to grant DOGE ‘full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems.'” (02/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-10-government-by-malicious-autopilot/