The title here is poor. Its not that Slack is subject to FOIA and other systems are not - its that the org structure of DOGE is being transition from being under OMB to directly under the executive office. If they use Slack there it would be presumably not be subject to FOIA.
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I remember that time that my parents got to vote for Nick Civella as the local crime boss and got to confront him, with no consequences whatsoever, at an open meeting about how he was spending the Central States Pension Fund on Vegas casinos.
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Heads would roll. Literally.
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#18I thought the whole point was transparency and auditing? Are you telling me Musk was lying!?! So who watches the Watchmen?
Did you forger to add /s or were you actually expecting Musk to be transparent and truthful?
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#19What?
Why are you protecting Slack business?
Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like Teams or Rocket Chat.
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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 inve…
"The President decides..." within the limits of his constitutional powers. Which do not include, for example, impoundment or unilaterally shutting down agencies authorized by Congressional acts.