Assessing the Impacts of the DOGE Interventions in Federal Data Bases

Assessing the impacts of the DOGE interventions in federal data bases

Interview transcript:   Nick Hart There’s a lot of great interest in data across the country right now, and for organizations like us at the Data Foundation where we’ve been championing open data and evidence-informed decision-making for a decade, this is an interesting moment because a lot the important discourse that’s happening around data is actually very similar to the discourse we’ve been having for years. One of the key themes that we’re …

‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit

Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and waste”. In a key test of Reform’s battle to access data from councils, West Northamptonshire became the first to welcome unnamed and unpaid “experts” from the party’s DOGE unit into the council to find ways to cut its budget. The council says it will reserve the right to stop DOGE from accessing r…

Americans worry DOGE irreparably harmed the health of U.S. infrastructure after targeting Census data

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Sure, let the DOGE bros access another government database

Though the so-called Department of Government Efficiency doesn’t grab as many headlines as it did in its Elon-Musk-led heyday, its workers cling like wood ticks on various agencies and continue to ...

DOGE helped Air Force garner more than $10B in savings

The Air Force and the cost-cutting "Department of Government Efficiency" set aside $10.4 billion from projects deemed wasteful to instead focus on Trump administration priorities. “The Department of the Air Force, in partnership with DOGE, has conducted efficiency reviews to accelerate the department’s pivot to a wartime posture and increase readiness,” service spokesperson Ann Stefanek told Inside Defense. “From these reviews, the DAF took spec…

DOGE’s Smoke and Mirrors: How the Agency Deliberately Avoids Transparency - American Oversight

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken a hatchet to the federal government, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, shuttering entire government agencies, and slashing invaluable federal programs. Many of these decisions were reportedly made by inexperienced appointees with little to no background or expertise in government.  The stakes could not be higher: Experts predict DOGE’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for …