The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

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Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.

To be fair, Musk does make a case for read-only access to the Treasury system: It can help to identify fraud and waste.(The case for DOGE’s youth squad to have the ability to change the system is something else.) During the Oval Office appearance, he told horror stories of federal employees possibly enriching themselves with tens of millions of dollars.

Lewis told me she heard from friends at USDS and people she hired at TTS about their interactions with DOGE people.“These are people with decades of experience, like an AI executive from Netflix, or an early Microsoft engineer,” she says.“They were in 15-minute interviews with DOGE staff, who are almost entirely in their twenties, white, male, and inexperienced.