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Mar 31 from https://www.wired.com/

Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems

Top career officials at the Department of the Interior (DOI) were placed on administrative leave late last week after declining to immediately give affiliates of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) levels of access to a payroll system that would in theory allow them to, among other things, stop individual Supreme Court justices’ paychecks. The New York Times has reported...

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Mar 30 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’

Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk. The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for a new shift to the private sector, reducing the size and power of the federal...

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Mar 24 from http://theintercept.com/

DOGE Keeps Trying to Dodge the Freedom of Information Act. So We’re Suing.

The Intercept filed a lawsuit on Monday to force the Trump administration to comply with federal transparency law when it comes to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court under the Freedom of Information Act, concerns multiple FOIA requests for DOGE records. At first, DOGE simply ignored these requests while Elon Musk’s crew ransacked...

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