AFGE National President Everett Kelley said he asked to join the government efficiency commission “for the voices of the thousands of federal workers."| Federal News Network - Helping feds meet their mission.
NCSL’s State-Federal team is tracking the latest states-related executive orders, policies and memoranda issued by the Trump administration.| www.ncsl.org
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.| WIRED
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.| WIRED
Donald Trump has directed US government agencies to build ‘centralised tech systems’ to ‘record every payment’ made via grants and contracts.| www.globalgovernmentfintech.com
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he is feeding the Washington foreign aid agency "into the wood chipper" as part of an effort to slash federal spending.| USA TODAY
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?| www.thebulwark.com
The DOGE initiative highlights the tension in our democracy between providing robust public services and maintaining fiscal responsibility.| Thomson Reuters Institute
Judge tells Musk to cough it up!| www.publicnotice.co
Ezra Klein has a wildly popular podcast. My grandson, a college freshman, tells me that Ezra Klein is like a deity to many in his generation. In this episode, he talks with Kara Swisher, who has be…| Diane Ravitch's blog
Looking for government contracting tips? Policy changes due to DOGE have made quite an impact. This guide details the challenges and solutions to remember.| BOOST LLC
Models to make sense of DOGE's activities and future| ryanbourne.substack.com
How improving our healthcare system can support a healthier country| sandrogalea.substack.com
"It does not take intelligence to throw money around and buy a company or buy a politician," Seth Abramson writes| TheWrap
Thinking through the realities facing such a commitment| sandrogalea.substack.com
Since congressional approval is needed to shut down the agency, experts say the more likely scenario for now is a combination of budget cuts and restructuring.| K-12 Dive
Trump is wielding — and renaming — the US Digital Service in service of the DOGE.| Nextgov.com
In his first two weeks in office, President Trump has taken several steps to significantly reduce the federal workforce and budget. These include issuing a series of day-one executive orders, firing scores of federal employees, and offering nearly 2 million government workers a buyout to resign before February 6.| Williams Institute
This is an opportunity to reduce government spending and improve public services.| Grand Forks Herald
DOGE and Musk face three more lawsuits over “brazen ransacking” of private data.| Ars Technica
The world’s richest man now has the power to override congressional spending decisions and access to private information about every US taxpayer.| The Nation
In one of President Donald Trump’s briefest executive orders, his administration put the hammer down on remote work.| HRMorning
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) got its start on Day One of President Donald Trump's second term and met with immediate legal action.| HRMorning
As expected, President Donald Trump began his second term by issuing a slew of executive orders on Day One -- and he's issued several more since then.| HRMorning
we do a little government efficiency| www.secondbest.ca
It is day two of the Trump Administration. Yesterday saw a flurry of Executive Actions targeting immigration, climate change, energy, and social and justice issues. Trump also issued an executive o…| Southern Fried Science
Finding the signal in the noise of recent days.| sandrogalea.substack.com
What the New Orders Mean for a New Order| donmoynihan.substack.com
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.| 404 Media
