A DOGE Origin Story: How Barack Obama Laid The Groundwork For Elon Musk

https://www.dailywire.com/ ^ | 2/6/2025 | LUKE ROSIAK

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The U.S. Digital Service hired from the porn industry and a gender studies department, building a legion of queer activists. Now it's DOGE.

Democrats thought they could shutter the Department of Government Efficiency before it even started, filing lawsuits that said its anticipated structure as an outside advisory committee was illegal. But when Inauguration Day rolled around, the reality was, for them, much worse: DOGE would be an official entity with hundreds of paid staff, authorized to hire outsiders with little vetting, and able to engage in openly ideological activity.

And Democrats had only themselves to blame.

DOGE took over the U.S. Digital Service, a 300-person technology office President Barack Obama set up inside the Executive Office of the President in 2014 to fix his beleaguered HealthCare.gov. Bureaucrats had bungled the site, so USDS sought out Silicon Valley innovators, and was authorized to circumvent federal hiring procedures to get them. Hiring young people from the tech world and putting them together to work for Obama, unmoored from the stuffy rules of a typical government building, led to an environment of overt left-wing advocacy.

Obama designed it that way, making the USDS administrator, its top employee, a political appointee. When Donald Trump took over in 2017, he didn’t attempt to turn the tables. Instead, he turned the other cheek. He reclassified USDS’s top job as a career position, not a political one, signaling that he trusted the employees to simply carry out the unglamorous job of fixing government IT.

But USDS staff abused that trust, using it, incredibly, to run left-wing activism from inside Trump’s first White House. During his first term, it hired multiple people who had worked in the porn industry, one who’d worked in a gender studies department, and a transgender activist. USDS leadership subjected staff to memos

[bitt]

P

[Paladin2]

Sounds like we are having fun now...

[rdb3]

Sounds like we are having fun now...

The fun is just beginning.

[Paladin2]

“The fun is just beginning.”

I’m TOTALLY down for having four years of fun.

[My personal life extent horizon is closing in. I’d be happy to go out on top]

[TruthBringsFreedom]

I am enjoying every hour since noon Jan 20th. But I do have early onset rigor mortis.

[Qwapisking]

now they are Trump’s MUSKeteers! and they are putting the sword to the dems and rino’s!

[Inyo-Mono]

Wow! Haven’t seen your logo in a long time!

[rdb3]

I was still around, just not posting.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Liz]

Obama gave us DOGE.
<><>Obama took over the “US Digital Service,” to fix his misbegotten HealthCare.gov in 2014
<><>US Digital was a 300-person tech unit inside Obama’s Executive Office
<><>Bureaucrats had bungled it, so Obama sought out a Silicon Valley fix,
<><>Obama circumvented federal hiring procedures
<><>He hired young tech types unmoored from govt’s stuffy rules,
<><>Obama’s goal was overt left-wing advocacy.
<><>Fast forward to 2024, Trump renamed US Digital “DOGE.”

[spacejunkie2001]

Funny. Me too

[sit-rep]

speaking of Obumfk... I havent hear squat from him lately!... ??

[SMARTY]

I can’t get my toes to uncurl

[bitt]

Trump’s MUSKeteers!

great quip!!

[SunkenCiv]

Well, the Super Bowl's turned out to be a trade school beatdown.

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