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Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 days agoFor what it’s worth, my congress cretin is loving polishing trump’s asshole and ceding away congressional oversight to the executive branch. At a town hall lady week, he said that the DOGE department was always DOGE, they just changed the acronym (wat?!) and it was always under the executive branch, not an independent federal agency.
tree_frog@lemm.ee 2 days ago
There is a grain of truth and all of that.
It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, the I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.
They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.