“Each Agency Head shall, with assistance as requested from the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, build a centralized technological system within the agency to seamlessly record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to each of the agency’s covered contracts and grants, along with a brief, written justification for each payment submitted by the agency employee who approved the payment,” the executive order states. “This system shall include a mechanism for the Agency Head to pause and rapidly review any payment for which the approving employee has not submitted a brief, written justification within the technological system.”
President Trump’s executive order is the latest in a flurry of activity for the nascent DOGE, which has had an outsized impact on federal operations since it was created by Trump through a Jan. 20 executive order. Initially charged with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,” DOGE efforts have led to major changes at the Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration, Treasury Department and multiple other agencies.
Wednesday’s executive order also calls on each agency leader to — in consultation with the agency’s DOGE team lead — review all grants and contracts and “terminate or modify (including through renegotiation) such covered contracts and grants to red ..
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