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Haven't you seen the DOGE department yet?

How do you make government smaller?

Step 1: Make government bigger by inventing a new department!

(Strictly speaking, it's not a government department. It is a private entity that will operate outside the government, and influence the president. What could possibly go wrong?)



> It is a private entity that will operate outside the government, and influence the president. What could possibly go wrong?

National Science Board is an external advisory board to the US gov. There's tons of examples of this sort of thing, especially in education and science.


The National Science Board was established by Congress, its activities are defined and governed by the law that created it, and it is clearly a part of the executive branch. Why do you consider it to be external to the government?


I'm guessing Doge would be regulated under this act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Advisory_Committee_Act...


If they actually follow the legal requirements listed in that article I will come back and apologize to you.


It would have to be by law.

The president can’t make a task force consisting of external advisors (non full time federal employees) in an official matter unless their activities are public and open to inspection.

Clinton got in trouble for this by putting Hillary on a Task Force in the early 1990s.


Pretty sure the National Science Board isn't co-chaired by a CEO and part owner multibillionaire with direct personal interests around government funded science projects though.


Not defending Doge just saying it's not new. Defence Business Board is a similar analogy. Plenty of people working at companies with gov contracts on the board during its history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Business_Board

https://dbb.defense.gov/Board-Members/


Nothing screams efficiency like 2 dept heads.


In fairness, the possibility the two heads' respective egos will cancel each other out is the most efficient thing about it...


And let's be perfectly clear - given two weeks in office they will be screaming at us.


Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy… They have two people running the Department of Government Efficiency


Whatever it is, it for sure has the lolzs as its basis.




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