David Catron; American Spectator
"Federal “workers” are employed by the executive branch of the government and, as such, they are ultimately accountable to the Chief Executive or someone he appoints to supervise them. The notion that anyone in the executive branch operates “independently” from the President is ridiculous." . . .
"It was hardly necessary to consult the Delphic Oracle to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency was destined to be extremely unpopular with federal bureaucrats. Nor was it difficult to predict that their collective response would be clueless and hopelessly inept. Nonetheless, even the most cynical observer of bureaucratic bumbling will be taken aback by an amateurish website called “We the Builders.” It was created to provide a space for anonymous government apparatchiks to whine about the depredations of DOGE, which the main page describes thus: “They are destroyers.”
"If you deliberately set out to create a parody — a website that looks and reads like something built by a bureaucrat — you would be hard put to do any better than “We the Builders.” The banner at the top of the main page is a group photo of about a dozen deeply earnest and inevitably diverse federal “workers” posing with their right hands raised as if reciting the loyalty oath taken by all federal employees. Some might question how seriously these people take that oath, however, after noticing that their logo is obviously modeled after the Soviet hammer and sickle. These geniuses attempted to disguise that fact by replacing the hammer with a wrench and the sickle with a spoon.
"The comedy continues with their mission statement, which boldly declares, “We don’t work for DOGE,” yet they have set up a handle on the social media site that is owned by their arch nemesis — Elon Musk. They describe themselves on their X Profile as “The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service.” If you have never heard of this agency, it is little wonder. USDS was quietly created by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in August of 2014, after the comically incompetent rollout of HealthCare.gov, and inevitably became a permanent agency filled with federal employees who came to think of themselves as fire proof.
"On Jan. 20, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’.” Essentially, it rebranded and repurposed USDS as DOGE. Inevitably, a number of USDS employees were fired and they immediately started running to Democrat-friendly “news” outlets peddling predictions that the sky would fall if DOGE was permitted to execute its mission of exposing government waste and fraud. A frequent claim made by the USDS “resistance” is that DOGE has rendered sensitive personal information insecure. For example, the site includes this by “Anonymous.' ” . . .
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