{"id":77856,"date":"2025-05-19T23:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/after-gao-started-investigating-doge-doge-decided-to-investigate-gao\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:00:17","slug":"after-gao-started-investigating-doge-doge-decided-to-investigate-gao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/after-gao-started-investigating-doge-doge-decided-to-investigate-gao\/","title":{"rendered":"After GAO Started Investigating DOGE, DOGE Decided To \u2018Investigate\u2019 GAO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the spidermen-pointing-at-each-other-but-only-one-is-real<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

In a brazen try and keep away from oversight, Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE workforce is now making an attempt to \u201caudit\u201d the very company tasked with auditing them. On Friday, NOTUS reported that DOGE officials showed up at the Government Accountability Office<\/a> \u2014 Congress\u2019s unbiased watchdog \u2014 to aim their signature hostile takeover routine. There\u2019s only one small drawback: DOGE has no authority by any means over the legislative department.<\/p>\n

This newest overreach comes after months of DOGE trying to place itself as some form of revolutionary authorities auditor \u2014 regardless of missing the experience or course of data that precise auditing requires. As we\u2019ve coated earlier than, every thing DOGE claims to be doing was already being dealt with by expert professionals inside authorities \u2014 professionals whom Musk promptly fired<\/a>, just like the technical specialists at 18F<\/a>. Actual authorities auditors have been watching in horror<\/a> as DOGE has been doing the opposite<\/a> of correct auditing procedures.<\/p>\n

The GAO\u2019s investigation of DOGE has been constructing for months. For many years, the workplace has earned bipartisan respect for its methodical, nonpartisan audits of presidency operations. So when experiences emerged in April that Congress\u2019s watchdog had begun examining DOGE\u2019s activities<\/a>, it advised critical considerations about DOGE\u2019s operations. The GAO requested complete documentation about techniques entry, threat assessments, and potential misuse of company information.<\/p>\n

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Data present that the GAO\u2014an unbiased auditing, analysis, and investigative company for Congress\u2014seems to be requesting complete data from the companies in query, together with incident experiences on \u201cpotential or precise misuse of company techniques or information\u201d and documentation of insurance policies and procedures referring to techniques DOGE operatives have accessed, in addition to documentation of insurance policies for the company\u2019s threat assessments, audit logs, insider risk applications, and extra.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Simply final week, whereas DOGE was busy slashing budgets with out understanding the results, the GAO demonstrated what precise authorities effectivity seems to be like. The workplace identified over $100 million in potential IT savings<\/a> \u2014 actual price reductions discovered by cautious evaluation of redundant techniques and pointless investments, not arbitrary cuts.<\/p>\n

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Price-trimming within the US federal authorities is all the fashion proper now \u2013 and a brand new report finds greater than $100 million in financial savings accessible to the Feds by doing nothing however eliminating redundant and pointless IT investments.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

These financial savings are a part of a way more important $100 billion in potential price reductions advisable by Uncle Sam\u2019s Authorities Accountability Workplace (GAO), as detailed within the auditors\u2019 fifteenth annual \u201cfragmentation, overlap, and duplication\u201d<\/em> report<\/u><\/em><\/a>, launched this week. The annual federal finances is about $7 trillion complete, for reference.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The distinction between GAO\u2019s methodical strategy and DOGE\u2019s slash-and-burn techniques couldn\u2019t be clearer.<\/p>\n

The Register\u2019s reporting highlighted an uncomfortable fact for DOGE supporters: when requested about DOGE\u2019s position, GAO director Lucas-Judy diplomatically famous that whereas they\u2019re \u201cat all times comfortable if different teams need to implement our suggestions,\u201d DOGE has largely ignored GAO\u2019s present work \u2014 besides when cherry-picking suggestions that align with their predetermined cuts.<\/p>\n

Reasonably than have interaction constructively with GAO\u2019s findings, DOGE responded by trying to claim management over the congressional watchdog itself. This transfer isn\u2019t simply inappropriate \u2014 it\u2019s clearly unconstitutional. If DOGE has any authority in any respect (which a number of ongoing lawsuits dispute), it might be restricted to government department companies. But right here they’re, trying to increase their attain into Congress\u2019s unbiased oversight arm.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE workforce is now beginning to goal authorities companies exterior of the manager department, notifying the U.S. Authorities Accountability Workplace \u2014 the congressional watchdog that performs research for legislators about federal waste, fraud and abuse \u2014 that it has \u201cassigned a workforce\u201d to assail that company, in accordance with an inside e mail obtained by NOTUS.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The GAO\u2019s response was appropriately direct. In an inside e mail obtained by NOTUS, the workplace knowledgeable its workers that it had \u201cdespatched a letter to the performing administrator of DOGE stating that GAO is a legislative department company that conducts work for the Congress. As such, we’re not topic to DOGE or government orders.\u201d The workplace additionally notified congressional committees about DOGE\u2019s tried overreach.<\/p>\n

This confrontation exposes two crucial points: first, DOGE\u2019s constitutional illiteracy in trying to claim government department authority over a congressional company. Second, and maybe extra troubling, it reveals DOGE\u2019s obvious technique of making an attempt to neutralize any significant oversight of its personal<\/em> actions.<\/p>\n

Given Musk\u2019s monitor report of lashing out when instructed \u201cno,\u201d this case is prone to escalate. However the actual story right here isn\u2019t nearly DOGE\u2019s continued incompetence \u2014 it\u2019s about their more and more determined makes an attempt to keep away from precise accountability whereas masquerading as authorities watchdogs themselves.<\/p>\n

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