When the first time the news of Elun Mossak’s technical seizure of the US government broke, a number of people who have been trying to change federal information technology for many years were amazing. Perhaps they dream, Elun Maskak and his team at the Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) provide a long council needed for a reckless and anti -anti -anti -bureaucracy.
“It is beyond the debate that if we were to improve throughout our lives, a more aggressive approach was needed,” says Mickey Dickerson, the director of the US digital service founder, now reformed in the USD dog. ” Services (he left in 2017 before Trump was inaugurated first.) Dickenson says the executive order Trump issued one of his second period, which established DOGE as a temporary organization in the government. In fact, it was what he liked to see the agency in the Charter of Obama. He particularly liked the paragraph, forcing agencies to access USDS teams to systems and records. “It wasn’t a magical bullet, but it created a strong assumption that they needed to cooperate,” he says. “We really didn’t have that, so was anyone wanting to work with us.”
Some of the leaders of the government’s technology team, who were also proud of their achievements and in their inability to change the real federal mess, shared similar hopes. Mina Hesiang, the director of USDS, called the Logging power “extraordinary opportunity”. Claire Martarana, a former federal intelligence officer, was excited that this order would force agencies to share budget data with DOGE, and make it an opportunity to withdraw the shroud and finally realized where these agencies Hide. This information can inform wise decisions about what it needs to be cut, while the North Star is valuable to the American people. He told me, “I am very trying to be optimistic about it.”
Prior to the inauguration, former Vice President of Technology Jennifer Pahlka wrote an article entitled “Bringing Alon to Knives”, which summarized this feeling: “Many of the state technology community … Dann. “You see the dog as your savior, but they feel the vacuum after years of shouting.”
If any of these former officials really believed that the mask was run with an opportunity for constructive reform of the government, these fantasies are now crushed. Mesak and the dog brought a team of young techniques and experienced managers who could take a moment to focus on improving the work of the government. But to date they have used their access and power to illegally evacuate the federal labor programs and defects for ideological reasons, without even giving it occasionally. Yes, Musk believes that people’s hero is against the bureaucratic state: “If the bureaucracy is responsible, what does democracy really mean?” While he looked at Trump and the 4 -year -old Mask’s son X, as Trump looked at, he asked during a bizarre oval presence. But the actions taken by DOGE do not match these feelings, especially when the movements appear to be adopted by Congress and the signature of the law. This is not very democratic. “I think the government is a good thing and needed a widespread change, much faster than anyone who has an appetite in political leadership,” Pahlka tells me. “Because we didn’t do it, it looks like that’s what we are getting.”
Ann Louis, who, until the end of last year, led the Agency for the use of modern technology to access the government available to its citizens, first tried to see the DOGE in a positive light. It was not long before this light would dim. “The pattern of bringing private sector people who have new prospects and skills and want to help are a great idea,” he tells me. “But we do not see the private sector people with a lot of experience they want to understand how everything is working.”
