21 DOGE Staffers Resign as They Refuse to 'Dismantle Critical Public Services'
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"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data," they wrote

Summary

Twenty-one staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned, citing ethical concerns over dismantling public services and compromising sensitive data.

Formerly part of the U.S. Digital Service, they criticized Musk and Trump’s overhaul, which included layoffs and politically charged interviews.

Their letter warned that removing skilled technologists endangers essential services like Social Security and veterans’ benefits.

The resignations add to growing concerns over Musk’s aggressive federal cuts, amplified by his recent CPAC speech where he symbolically wielded a chainsaw against “bureaucracy.”

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    105·
    13 days ago

    Relevant bit from the article, because some of y’all apparently comment before reading:

    The staffers who resigned were all originally employees of the United States Digital Service, a technology unit established during President Obama’s second term in 2014. The unit was renamed and reorganized in January via executive order by Trump into the Musk-headed DOGE.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      19·
      12 days ago

      My understanding is: Founding a new Department can only be done by Congress, so they had to “redefine” (more like corrupt) an existing one.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 days ago

      I have seen some news sites giving this with headlines like “DOGE Goons resign” without the part you just quoted of course. top notch newsmanship

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 days ago

      Yeah, they renamed it to DOGE, presumably because using the term duke would be off putting to their drone followers. Then they gave the organization a fuck ton more authority and ignored judicial rulings. What does any of it have to do with Obama though?

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
        13·
        12 days ago

        It has nothing to do with Obama. Is that a trigger word for you or something? It’s because of comments like this.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          1·
          12 days ago

          Trigger word? I was asking why they are trying to tie an authoritarian move to a president who left office in the way a democratic Republic set up over 2 terms ago.

          Have fun with your buzzwords.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            4·
            12 days ago

            As an end run around constitutional checks and balances, instead creating a new agency l they corrupted and took over an existing agency set up by obama

            The president had no authority to create a new agency but seems to be getting away with a technicality

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
              4·
              12 days ago

              Notice you said a president can’t create a new agency, then said Obama did. He didn’t create it, the 114th Congress did. Both the Senate and the House were Republican majority when it was created. So it is true if Obama didn’t want it he could have tried to veto it, but the only way it could have been created was by a majority vote.

              Something possibly worth noting as well: “This bill directs the President to continue to operate, for FY2017-FY2026, the United States Digital Service as such program operated using funds made available under the Information Technology Oversight and Reform account in division E of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016.” -H.R.5372

              DOGE may be auto defunded after Fiscal Year 2026 unless the Congress/Senate push through a continuation which undoubtedly they should be able to get approved being that they hold the house and Senate majority again.

      • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        12 days ago

        It’s not uncommon to mention the president who started an agency in little blurbs describing their history. Like with the Environmental Protection Agency & Nixon.