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DOGE wants to charge one federal agency millions of dollars for its work to make government more efficient

The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, wants to charge the Office of Personnel Management over $4 million for managing personnel modernization.
DOGE personnel effectively control OPM, issuing directives that have caused confusion within the agency.
Career employees at OPM report feeling sidelined and confused by DOGE's actions and new directives.
A federal judge found mass firings at OPM likely unlawful, questioning the agency's authority to terminate employees.

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Daily Kos

DOGE and the Trump Propaganda Machine

As Trump’s billionaire buddy Elon Musk rampages through the federal government, indiscriminately shredding agency after agency, his so-called Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE—AKA Musk’s “woodchipper for bureaucracy”—is busy blasting out...

9 minutes ago·United States

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The Daily Caller

JUSTIN GOODMAN: DOGE, Lawmakers Target Fauci’s Mad Science

Dr. Anthony Fauci is gone from government, but his long shadow looms large in Washington. DOGE is fixing that.

40 minutes ago·Washington, United States

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Time Magazine

What Previous Government Reform Efforts Tell us About DOGE

Before there was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there was Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s campaign to “reinvent government.” As alarmed critics point to the unprecedented developments of DOGE’s early weeks—aggressive incursions into the U.S. government’s multi-trillion dollar payment infrastructure, the abrupt defunding of USAID, racist comments by youthful engineers and the specter of mass layoffs—Elon Musk has claimed that the Gore…

5 hours ago·United States

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Common Dreams

Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent DOGE, Musk From Gutting U.S. Environmental Agencies

The Center Biological Diversity sued five cabinet-level agencies today seeking to stop the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its DOGE teams from taking further actions against multiple environmental agencies until each team fully complies with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This is the first lawsuit challenging DOGE’s efforts to eviscerate the agencies charged with protecting the environment, natural resources and wildlife.T…

8 hours ago·United States

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Alternet

The 'deep state' is real — it's just not what you think it is

I think it’s time to say that the deep state is real, and that it’s trying to make us weaker, sicker, poorer, more vulnerable and easier to control.I know what that sounds like. It sounds like a conspiracy theory. But that’s the complicated thing about the nature of conspiracy theories.Some conspiracies are real.I mean, what else are we to call the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency”? It’s not a government department. (Technically, i…

9 hours ago·Washington, United States

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