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What rebranding?
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.
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.
It's a wee bit more complicated:
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...
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.
~~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.
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”
It’s even on Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
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.