- United States
- Vt.
- Letter
In his first day in office Trump signed an executive order that renames the little-known but highly respected United States Digital Service office as the United States DOGE Service, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency, an effort helmed by tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk.
The order also moves the USDS from the Office of Management and Budget to the Executive Office of the President and directs each federal agency to create a "DOGE Team" that may include a team leader, engineer, human resources specialist and attorney to help facilitate Trump's "DOGE agenda."
We now know that this team of unvetted hackers has had access to and released classified Secret information on their website, has read/write access to our personal digital data, has access to all government payment systems and government personnel data and actively and illegally seeks to fire employees, and illegally close Congressionally mandated and funded government operations. This must stop.
We call upon you, our elected representatives to defund DOGE to halt this illegal hijacking of government function and operations.