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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Doge isn’t a new department trump just renamed the department for digital services which mostly helped other departments to develop software and stuff to make their services more digital and easier to use and stuff.

[–] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted because you're right. The department got renamed with the stupid acronym with the new administration and functions differently now, but it's existed for just about a decade prior to this happening.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a wee bit more complicated:

  • Executive orders created the DOGE service out of USDS, but also a separate "DOGE Temporary organization".
  • it's not clear how the temporary organization is distinct from the old USDS, or if it even exists in fact (i.e. has it been staffed up at all?)
  • The government seems to argue that many of the identified DOGE Team personnel are actually employed by the individual agencies they embed in under various titles and SGE authorizations.
  • So if the DOGE Team members are not in the DOGE Service, and not in the temporary organization, how does the command and control work?
  • Elon Musk is allegedly not affiliated with either of the DOGE organizations. He may or may not be a special government employee in a generic White House sub-office. He definitely, allegedly, doesn't have any decision making authority. (But then, how come he talks about making a bunch of decisions on Xitter?)
[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a good legal eagle video on this. I mean good as in it explains this in detail, not good as in it made me understand what's up and what's down, because I still have no clue...

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

You can follow one of these court cases here with free downloads of all of the docket filings. This case is about the BFS payment system specifically.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

~~Are you sure about that? I'm unable to find anything that matches your statement.~~

EDIT: I was wrong. You're right. It was renamed.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

First paragraph of the Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

Plenty other sources as well. Literally all you need to do is Google/bing/duckduckgo the words “United states digital service”

[–] KBec@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

It’s even on Wikipedia:

It was established on January 20, 2025, by an executive order renaming the United States Digital Service (USDS) to the United States DOGE Service (USDS), and establishing the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (USDSTO) within USDS.[6][7]

[–] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

DOGE is just a renamed version of the USDS(US Digital Services Agency) that was established in 2014. Trump literally just changed the name to the US DOGE Service.