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DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
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Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Depends on if anyone will do anything to stop him.
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#24What? 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.
More expensive and more better.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> They're advising the President, and the President is cleaning house.
That may be a distinction without a difference. The reason to have advisors around is so you can rely on them to make a proposal you can sign off on, because they understand your overall vision. If they're not proposing cuts he agrees with, he'll replace DOGE leadership until he finds people who do.
Re: DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
People are throwing around the word "impoundment" lately. But it has a very specific meaning, and no impoundment has happened.
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#27I thought the whole point was transparency and auditing? Are you telling me Musk was lying!?! So who watches the Watchmen?
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#28I 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?
> Did you forge[t] to add /s or were you actually expecting Musk to be transparent and truthful?
Do you remember all his promises about full self driving Teslas? He's one of the most honest and truthful people in the world, and has been for years.
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#29Practically, this probably doesn't make a difference. FOIA relies on at least one person in the department to not be antagonistic towards the process. Otherwise they can just make up excuses. That's the standard experience for people sending requests.
I don't think anyone from the new DOGE would actually be helpful in responses anyway.