DOGE is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government.
But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders.
The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency.
DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS.
Of all the entities in Washington, it’s the GAO and the Library of Congress I’d expect to see pushing back the hardest, and here it is. Good job by people who genuinely care about us.
We talking about a team trying to find inefficiency in the GAO or a team being sent to figure out how to do their job better?
