While they call it a department, it’s not a new department. They renamed the “United States Digital Service” and created the “U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization” under it.
Special government employee is a specific classification that has been used by both Parties to have an advisor in the Executive Branch for brief periods (120 days at most).
That does not imply that DOGE is an official agency or department.
Advising is a far cry from allowing them to access the personal information of millions of people and alter the code of our infrastructure. This is definitely unprecedented and unacceptable.
The White House has said Musk and his DOGE colleagues are “special government employees.” It has yet to be seen of that arrangement is legal, but as it stands, they are part of the government workforce which is why bureaucrats are “going along with this”.
White House casually admiting they created a new department without congressional approval and oversight, violating Article II.
While they call it a department, it’s not a new department. They renamed the “United States Digital Service” and created the “U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization” under it.
This all sounds like some untested legal loopholes to create a new department without congressional approval.
Special government employeeis a specific classification that has been used by both Parties to have an advisor in the Executive Branch for brief periods (120 days at most).That does not imply that DOGE is an official agency or department.
They are legally distinct concepts
And do `special government employees’ run the department of USAID?
Advising is a far cry from allowing them to access the personal information of millions of people and alter the code of our infrastructure. This is definitely unprecedented and unacceptable.