Trump just gave it a fresh name, assignment and leader
By Bob Unruh
DOGE, President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is led by Elon Musk and tasked with eliminating fraud, waste and corruption in the federal government spending, actually is an agency that was created by Barack Obama.
All Trump did was change the name and give it a new assignment and staff.
But the funding paths and authorities all were already established.
It was Obama’s United States Digital Service, created in 2014, that was gutted and transformed into an organization that is expected, by its own estimation, to cut hundreds of billions of dollars a year from federal spending.
It’s already inserted itself into dozens of federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the IRS, and it has largely eliminated the U.S. Agency for International Development, transferring only some of its workers and responsibilities to the State Department.
Multiple reports have defined how Obama launched the agency in an attempt to make the federal government’s digital capabilities better, following the disastrous rollout at the time of HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare website.