On Wednesday, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Cost Efficiency Initiative.” It’s a real decisive answer; it’s lengthy, covers a lot of ground, and best of all, makes the DOGE official. Oh, there will still be challenges, and the left will still try to throw anything they can to gum up the works and keep the federal gravy train rolling, but this is still, as someone once said, a “big effin’ deal.”
Here are a few of the more interesting bits of this rather major EO:
Non-Essential Travel Justification. Each Agency Head shall, with assistance from the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, build a technological system within each agency that centrally records approval for federally funded travel for conferences and other non-essential purposes. Once an agency’s system is in place, the…
