Last week? Last month? Last year?
Nope!
How about … 2011? And guess who launched it, and who got put in charge?
I have already written a couple of times about the origins of the US DOGE Service, which began in 2013 as the US Digital Service with a mission to fix the disastrous ObamaCare portal. Barack Obama then expanded its authority to the entire executive branch with a mission to modernize IT systems throughout the government. Donald Trump simply renamed it while keeping its access and authorities intact, and had Elon Musk bring in a team of data scientists to take the mission seriously.
However, it turns out that DOGE goes back even further in the Obama administration. This video comes from 2011, in which Obama decries all of the money being spent on absolute nonsense, as well as the surfeit of unneeded facilities for which the government was paying….
