I can't imagine someone
hasn't posted this shit by now, but I did some digging and I found some really fun shit that's sure to whet the appetite of anyone who really is fiending for some quality self-owns by the Dems. "What's old man Jaimas talking about this time?" You ask? DOGE in this case, because holy shit this is hilarious.
So journey with me back to 2010. The Obamacare rollout had just started, people had, in turn, just started to get fucked by the insurance mandate it brought with it, but so many people went for it that the entire fucking Obamacare Website exploded. Eager to prevent this kind of embarrassing fuck-up from happening and impugning the dignity of Obama again, he created a whole new bureaucratic agency for the purposes of handling the government's internet frontend, the
United States Digital Service, or USDS. It came online for the first time in 2014.
When the Donald took office, he simply rebranded this old agency, making the current incarnation of DOGE as we know it. The agency's name changed, as did its mandate, but the funding it already had and its acronym both remained. The Donald then goes forward and invokes 5 USC 3161 to create temporary hiring authorities, and because the USDS already existed, and by design had minimal government oversight, it's wound up being possibly the single greatest fuck-up the Dems have conducted in my lifetime.
See, the USDS was already intended to handle the internet architecture of the Fed, and was given sweeping authority to do just that - and because of this, Trump was able to invoke 44 USC Chapter 35 - effectively giving DOGE everything they need to do one thing and one thing only: Find the fucking receipts, since they have full access to almost every database used by almost every federal agency DOGE embedded teams with. And since Trump wrote his executive orders to specifically allow DOGE to countermand previous EOs, this leaves the Dems in a particularly bad position.
TL;DR: If I'm reading this right, Congress
cannot defund DOGE - because it was an existing government agency that got repurposed, rather than a new one. The DOJ can't sue them for overreach, either, since DOGE is using the USDS"s own rules-as-written, and the various attempts at lawfare to stop DOGE isn't likely to work because DOGE was already operating in a pre-existing framework when Obama created it - unintentionally giving Trump the perfect backdoor into the deep state's proverbial bankbooks - and accordingly, they really can't do much to stop DOGE without violating multiple federal and state laws, if my understanding is correct.
