Elon Musk's 'Department of Government Efficiency' has a rough first week

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As the first week of Trump’s second term gets underway, the not-quite-real Department of Government Efficiency is both struggling and expanding its remit.
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Elon Musk's ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ has a rough first week
As the first week of felon Trump’s second term gets underway, the not-quite-real Department of Government Efficiency is both struggling and expanding its remit.

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Referring to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, then the chairs of the fake “department,” the congressional staffer said: “Two people who know nothing about how the government works pretending they can cut a trillion dollars, both with decent pulpits to preach from, and the ear of an unpredictable president? Disaster.”

As this week got underway, for example, Ramaswamy resigned from the advisory panel, and according to multiple reports, his colleagues weren’t exactly sad to see him leave. A few days later, as The Wall Street Journal reported, the fake “department” suffered another major departure.

The top lawyer at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency said he is leaving just days after President Trump’s return to the White House. Bill McGinley, whom Trump appointed as DOGE’s legal counsel in December, is in discussions with several large companies to return to the private sector.

The lawyer confirmed his departure in an interview with the Journal, emphasizing that he remains supportive of the president and his agenda.....

Making matters worse, it’s not the only challenge facing the initiative:

DOGE is the target of multiple lawsuits that allege the endeavor is failing to comply with disclosure and hiring laws that apply to all advisory panels.

The so-called department is facing new questions as to why it was created in such a way that it’s not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.

While the stated purpose of the project was to identify wasteful spending, Musk has already walked back Trump’s unrealistic campaign promises, and the president’s executive order creating DOGE said its purpose will be to “implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,” suggesting that the reason for the endeavor’s existence has already been overhauled.

......In other words, as the first week of Trump’s second term gets underway, the not-quite-real Department of Government Efficiency is both struggling and expanding its remit — which is far from an ideal scenario in an initiative clouded by secrecy.

The “disaster” prediction from December might’ve understated the case.