President Trump has rebranded the United States Digital Service (USDS) as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) through an executive order. This move, aimed at streamlining federal bureaucracy and reducing spending, sees the USDS relocated from the Office of Management and Budget to the Executive Office of the President. DOGE will focus on software modernization, tasked with updating federal government IT infrastructure. The order also directs each agency to create a 'DOGE Team' to facilitate these initiatives.
The Department of Government Efficiency, a post-election promise brought to life by President Trump via executive order looks different than its original proposal to broadly cut federal spending.President Trump speaks to journalists as he signs an executive order regarding Department of Government Efficiency , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan.
Mina Hsiang, the most recent administrator of the USDS before the Trump rebranding, said that over the last four years the office has worked with more than 30 agencies on projects that ranged from urgent action items to longer-term overhauls of digital systems."USDS has no special authorities or anything else that other parts of government don't have," Hsiang explained."What we do have is a difference in strategic perspective on how to take on these challenges.
Trump hasn't yet named an administrator for the retooled office, it's not clear how Musk will operate in relation to the USDS and the new DOGE teams have not been put into place across federal agencies."DOGE is positioning itself — and we'll see if this really plays out — as having far more power than USDS has traditionally did in the past, say, three administrations," she said.
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