The GAO doesn't actually have any authority. What's going to happen here is that they'll write a publicly available report detailing all of the horrible things that DOGE is doing and it'll have a "recommendations" section at the end. And that's it. From there it's up to our useless Congress to act on the information, or otherwise lawsuits from anyone with standing. But we all know how that goes.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Ironically, that's part of the reason DOGE even exists. They do the same job, but congress has almost always ignored the GAO. The difference is that the GAO actually puts in the work and puts out good reports instead of just wrecking things.
Then Elon is going to tweet out some nonsense misrepresenting the report just like he did with their report they put out last September showing mishandled government spending to the tune of 2.3 trillion dollars between 2003 and 2023. (He first lied and said doge found the mishandled payments when they didn't. And also said the full 2.3 trillion were Medicaid payments to individuals outside the US. Which was just a blatant fabrication)
This is good in that is how these things are supposed to work.
But the problem is that these are bad faith actors being engaged with in good faith. They are committing crimes and causing irreversible damage and need to be stopped immediately. The US gov has been taken over by fascists and everyone is acting like it's business as usual.
I mean no one I know sees it as business as usual but I do wish the word illegal and crime was being used in broadcast news.
Betting they get half the staff fired and the investigation goes away.
They're all going to say they're new hires and weren't educated about any limitations.
DOGE isn't technically new, that requires Congressional approval, Trump just renamed The US Digital Service, a little known department tasked with digital modernization formed after the Obamacare website issues. Then he let Musk do whatever the fuck he wanted with it.
I doubt there's a single USDS employee still there, meaning everyone would have to be new hires with less than 4 months there.
Lawmakers call it a “constitutional emergency,”
How nice someone woke them up. Anyway where do we place our bets whether GAO makes it till easter or not?