[xmprt]

Democrats have bigger fish to fry and DOGE isn't a real department so it doesn't have a whole lot of authority to do things on its own. It can only advise the government so in the end, until an executive order is signed or some other action is taken, there's nothing to be done.

[affinepplan]

I'm not sure what could possibly be a bigger fish right now. This is, quite literally, the dismantling of our entire government and its public services unfolding before our eyes.

[theonething]

> quite literally, the dismantling of our entire government

So the three branches of government are being dismantled? There won't be anymore Congress or Supreme Court?

It's really hard to take hysterical comments like this seriously.

[XajniN]

It sound bad when you say it like that.

[computerthings]

https://www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wants-to-get-operation...

> I try to keep emotion out of this newsletter. I have always tried to write Notes on the Crises in a calm, detached tone so that the information I highlight shines through. However, I must be honest with readers: I’m absolutely terrified. When I first read the Washington Post’s reporting I subsequently had a panic attack. I am not subject to those. I didn’t have one during the start of Covid-19 when I started writing about the full health, economic, and political consequences in March 2020 and knew before many, many people that millions would die. Nor at any time subsequently did I have one. Even as someone who has spent an unusual amount of time thinking about the Treasury’s internal payments system for a person who has never been in government, I find grasping the full implications of Elon Musk and his apparatchiks reaching into and trying to exert full control over the Treasury’s payment system mind-boggling.

> There is nothing more important on the entire planet than getting Elon Musk and DOGE out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and allowing career civil service employees to run the Treasury’s internal payments system without capricious and self-serving interference from billionaires and their allies. This effort must fail if we are to safeguard any semblance of due process and lawfulness in the executive branch. A vague anonymous promise that DOGE only has “read only” access is not enough. They need to be rooted out so that we can return to the slower moving, less dangerous, “five alarm fire” constitutional crisis we were having as of Friday morning.

[XajniN]

He who dares wins

[computerthings]

What's the "win" here?

[XajniN]

Same as you, I have no idea what’s going to happen. But something will, and it might be good. It might be bad as well, but at least the news will be interesting.

[9283409232]

You have no real handle on the scale of damage being done and DOGE is a real department as it was merged into the US Digital Service through executive order.

[kelnos]

Who is running USDS, though? If it's now Musk, doesn't that require Senate confirmation?

[9283409232]

You would think so but the legality of it all is very disputed.

[SpicyLemonZest]

No, USDS is an organization within the President's executive staff.

The constitutional requirement is that "Officers of the United States" need Senate confirmation unless Congress has provided otherwise. The precise contours of this have never been super well defined, but it doesn't sound like Musk is exercising sovereign power under his own authority, at least not yet.

[mrkeen]

Democrats don't have a frypan.