disposition of a government (12. 199)

Flooding the zone was intentional, and there are too many uncontrolled blazes to keep track of and there’s but as a reminder of the ongoing events of the coup d’état, Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, to be co-chaired by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (who left before the project began to further his political career) as an outside consulting firm to make recommendations on spending-cuts and restructuring. Contradicting the original scope of the commission, Trump instead took an obscure technology unit within the executive established in 2014 by Barack Obama to improve digital services and federal websites (also to sign up for health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act) and renamed it US DOGE Service (DOGE itself is a temporary organisation and not an executive department as that requires the approval of congress and cannot be accomplished by diktat) and embedded and with a veneer of authority (however challenged and lawless), Musk and his team infiltrated the Treasury Department, the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration, which manages government office space, laptops and connectivity—VPN included. Senior officials are being dismissed, relieved of duty or otherwise sidelined over access to sensitive and comprehensive information on civil servants (previously) and remittance systems which is being migrated to outside servers—ostensibly to process the data with artificial intelligence for guidance on which funding and employees to cull, as earlier attempts at a blanket bans for duly appropriated monies for programmes were halted by judges and workers weren’t taking a phoney, leveraged “buy-out” with the promise of an eight-month farewell that runs counter to the Anti-Deficiency Act.