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Within hours of taking office on 20 January, 2025 [[President Donald Trump]] signed an [[executive order]] changing the United States Digital Service (USDS) created in 2014 by [[Barack Obama]] to the United States DOGE Service (USDS).<ref>With the massive failure of the [[Obamacare]] website when it was launched in 2014, President Barack Obama created the United States Digital Service (USDS) tasked with improving the technological abilities of all federal agencies. In 2025 the [[United States Department of Justice]] revealed in a court filing: "Since its creation in 2014 by President Obama, the United States Digital Service ("USDS") has worked with agencies across the [[Executive Branch]] to, among other things, improve the federal government’s information technology and data organization systems...That mandate was recently revived through an Executive Order issued by President Trump, which redesignated USDS as the U.S. DOGE Service". [https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.16.0_1.pdf]</ref> DOGE was originally founded within the Executive offices of the White House with a staff of 20. On February 7, 2025 President Trump gave DOGE chief [[Elon Musk]] authority to add an extra 45 staff, recruited from Musk's various tech businesses.
Within hours of taking office on 20 January, 2025 [[President Donald Trump]] signed an [[executive order]] changing the United States Digital Service (USDS) created in 2014 by [[Barack Obama]] to the United States DOGE Service (USDS).<ref>With the massive failure of the [[Obamacare]] website when it was launched in 2014, President Barack Obama created the United States Digital Service (USDS) tasked with improving the technological abilities of all federal agencies. In 2025 the [[United States Department of Justice]] revealed in a court filing: "Since its creation in 2014 by President Obama, the United States Digital Service ("USDS") has worked with agencies across the [[Executive Branch]] to, among other things, improve the federal government’s information technology and data organization systems...That mandate was recently revived through an Executive Order issued by President Trump, which redesignated USDS as the U.S. DOGE Service". [https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.16.0_1.pdf]</ref> DOGE was originally founded within the Executive offices of the White House with a staff of 20. On February 7, 2025 President Trump gave DOGE chief [[Elon Musk]] authority to add an extra 45 staff, recruited from Musk's various tech businesses.
== Elon Musk ==
== Activities ==
The ''[[New York Post]]'' reported: "DOGE comes in fast, going around lower-level [[IT]] staffers, who typically raise privacy concerns but are overruled by senior leaders who fold to DOGE's demands...DOGE team members are then given superpowered user accounts enabling them to access and edit reams of [[government]] data with little to no oversight...That allows them to make changes at lightning speed, bypassing typical security protocols". It was further reported: "DOGE staffers have begun using [[AI]] to analyze financial data, aiming to cancel every [[contract]] that is not required by [[law]] or essential to the department's operations" and observed: "In less than three weeks, Musk's U.S. DOGE Service has followed the same playbook at one federal agency after another: Install loyalists in leadership...Hoover up internal data, including the sensitive and the classified...Gain control of the flow of funds...And push hard to eliminate [[job]]s and programs not aligned with [[Trump administration]] goals."<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/inside-trumps-hectic-day-to-day-schedule-as-prez-begins-to-transform-federal-government/</ref>
Both [[Elon Musk]] and [[Donald Trump]] have suggested that Musk could hold a seat in Trump's cabinet if he's reelected - namely through a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). [[Vivek Ramaswamy]], "the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on “a real-time basis.” (See: [https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/entire-us-agencies-wil-be-deleted-under-trumps-new-doge-vivek-ramaswamy-says/ Vivek Ramaswamy teases ‘mass reductions’ under new DOGE – and expects certain agencies will be ‘deleted outright’], New York Post, 2024).
Both [[Elon Musk]] and [[Donald Trump]] have suggested that Musk could hold a seat in Trump's cabinet if he's reelected - namely through a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). [[Vivek Ramaswamy]], "the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on “a real-time basis.” (See: [https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/entire-us-agencies-wil-be-deleted-under-trumps-new-doge-vivek-ramaswamy-says/ Vivek Ramaswamy teases ‘mass reductions’ under new DOGE – and expects certain agencies will be ‘deleted outright’], New York Post, 2024).