“This is a mechanical job—they pay Social Security benefits, they pay vendors, whatever. It’s not one where there’s a role for nonmechanical things, at least from the career standpoint. Your whole job is to pay the bills as they’re due,” Mazur was priced quote as stating. “It’s never been used in a way to execute a partisan agenda… You have to really put bad intentions in place for that to be the case.”

The Trump administration formerly provided an order to freeze financing for a large range of federal government programs, however rescinded the order after 2 days of demonstration and a judge’s judgment that briefly obstructed the financing freeze.

Trump purchased cooperation with DOGE

The Trump executive order developing DOGE took the existing United States Digital Service and relabelled it the United States DOGE Service. It’s part of the Executive Office of the President and is entrusted with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

Trump’s order stated that federal firms will need to team up with DOGE. “Among other things, the USDS Administrator shall work with Agency Heads to promote inter-operability between agency networks and systems, ensure data integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection and synchronization,” the order stated. “Agency Heads shall take all necessary steps, in coordination with the USDS Administrator and to the maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure USDS has full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems. USDS shall adhere to rigorous data protection standards.”

The Post composes that “Musk has sought to exert sweeping control over the inner workings of the US government, installing longtime surrogates at several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, which essentially handles federal human resources, and the General Services Administration.”

On Thursday, Musk went to the General Services Administration head office in Washington, DC, The New York Times reported. The Department of Government Efficiency’s account on X specified previously today that the GSA had “terminated three leases of mostly empty office space” for a cost savings of $1.6 million which more cuts are prepared. In another post, DOGE declared it “is saving the Federal Government approx. $1 billion/day, mostly from stopping the hiring of people into unnecessary positions, deletion of DEI and stopping improper payments to foreign organizations, all consistent with the President’s Executive Orders.”

“Mr. Musk’s visit to the General Services Administration could presage more cost-cutting efforts focused on federal real estate,” the Times composed. “The agency also plays a role in federal contracting and in providing technology services across the federal government.”