USDS started after the Healthcare.gov crash during the Obama administration to serve as a government tech SWAT team to help agencies with critical tech projects.
On the first day of Trump 2.0, President Donald Trump signed an executive order remaking USDS into the United States DOGE Service, with a focus on tech.
Days into the new administration, associates of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk — whose leadership of DOGE has been both confirmed and denied by the White House — started re-interviewing legacy USDS employees, as Nextgov/FCW reported at the time.
“Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability,” the resignation letter reads. “This process created significant security risks.”
Earlier this month, dozens of staffers were dismissed, told that “USDS no longer has a need for your services.”
“DOGE has effectively become part of the USDS as a component of the White House, and any leftover career bureaucrats who don’t align with the President or DOGE are neither advised nor welcomed to be a part of this never-before-seen missi ..
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