4 ms·

The USDS wasn't established by Congress, it was established by Obama via Presidential memoranda and OMB budget request.

• hintymad 2y ago
  Thanks! I knew that Obama created the USDS, but I thought he still needed the support from Congress. Well then, in that case I'm not sure why Trump would rather repurpose the USDS. Maybe it's easier to set up a temporary entity for DOGE that way?
  • toomuchtodo 2y ago
    It is in the same way you would assume an existing admin role to perform the highly privileged actions you want to take vs attempting to bootstrap access from scratch.
    • mr_person 2y ago
      Does anyone else notice how similar that is in spirit to what a malicious actor would look to do after gaining access to your network?
      • Xelynega 2y ago
        Or how a malicious actor inside your network would follow exactly this plan to do malicious things without your knowledge...
  • speakfreely 2y ago
    USDS was already kind of set up the way you'd want to set up DOGE if you were Elon. It was designed for talented people from the tech industry to do "temporary tours" in the government.
• speakfreely 2y ago
  Pretty amusing that Obama essentially created a SPAC for Trump and Musk to use to dismantle the civil service.