DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

> This would make DOGE a Presidential Records Act entity, meaning records it creates are not FOIAble until years after a president leaves office rather than a Federal Records Act entity, which would make its records FOIAble now.

It's how soon you can make a request.

Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

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Post by jfkrrorj » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

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Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

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Post by slowmovintarget » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC

anothername12 wrote: post #3

davidt84 wrote: post #2

They're all subject to FOIA...

The article outlines some reporting changes (from OMB to White House chief of staff??) to get around that apparently

The article is fairly sloppy and uses lots of scare-quotes, but basically it's saying that communications for the DOGE team will report in to the Chief of Staff making them subject to the Presidential Records Act instead of the general reporting conditions for the OMB.

The article also states that 'DOGE is gutting...' when that's not true. They're advising the President, and the President is cleaning house. They investigate, recommend, the President decides, and those decisions get acted on. This is how a task force like this is supposed to work.

Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

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Post by hiatus » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 5:46 PM UTC

anothername12 wrote: post #3

davidt84 wrote: post #2

They're all subject to FOIA...

The article outlines some reporting changes (from OMB to White House chief of staff??) to get around that apparently

That remains to be seen. From the same article:

> "Just changing the name alone under the Executive Order doesn't affect DOGE's recordkeeping status,” Jason R. Baron, professor at the University of Maryland and former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration told 404 Media in a phone call. “The administration apparently has made a determination that DOGE will be a presidential component subject to the Presidential Records Act. However, that will surely be challenged in the courts in connection with FOIA lawsuits. Under FOIA, it will be for the courts to decide whether under existing DOGE is acting more like a federal oversight agency or as a presidential component that solely advises the President.”