## Colophon tags:: url:: https://archive.is/NlrSz date:: [[]] %% title:: Musk Plan for Retooling Government Takes Shape, but Big Questions Loo… type:: [[clipped-note]] author:: [[@archive.is]] %% ## Notes > now has full command of the federal cost-cutting effort, which Mr. Trump has hailed as “potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.” How exactly Mr. Musk wields his consolidated power to set the tempo and targets of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency remains to be seen. But his first moves suggest he will oversee something closer to an I.T. project than the sweeping operation to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget that Mr. Musk had once predicted. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/GjKhvtr1Ee-uPAeMXRKsQw/archive.is/NlrSz) > The office, the United States Digital Service, now renamed United States DOGE Service, was created in 2014 to fix failing computer systems that threatened the success of President Barack Obama’s health insurance overhaul. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/OUF7Ptr1Ee-stdOzxW1euA/archive.is/NlrSz) - Annotation: I don't even...> Amanda Scales, who until this month worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that oversees government hiring. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/XuHx6Nr1Ee-ePQO2bciJ9w/archive.is/NlrSz) - Annotation: "oh 🦌"> The full extent of how DOGE works and what it does may end up shielded from the public. Mr. Musk hopes to join the administration as a special government employee, according to a person familiar with his plan, a designation intended to avoid triggering a transparency law requiring government panels that include private citizens to conduct their meetings in public and make their documents available. It remains to be seen whether many other DOGE staffers will also have that designation. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/mPyLTNu7Ee-0vw8oaflxlA/archive.is/NlrSz) > now has full command of the federal cost-cutting effort, which Mr. Trump has hailed as “potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.” How exactly Mr. Musk wields his consolidated power to set the tempo and targets of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency remains to be seen. But his first moves suggest he will oversee something closer to an I.T. project than the sweeping operation to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget that Mr. Musk had once predicted. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/GjKhvtr1Ee-uPAeMXRKsQw/archive.is/NlrSz) > The office, the United States Digital Service, now renamed United States DOGE Service, was created in 2014 to fix failing computer systems that threatened the success of President Barack Obama’s health insurance overhaul. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/OUF7Ptr1Ee-stdOzxW1euA/archive.is/NlrSz) - Annotation: I don't even...> Amanda Scales, who until this month worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that oversees government hiring. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/XuHx6Nr1Ee-ePQO2bciJ9w/archive.is/NlrSz) - Annotation: "oh 🦌"> The full extent of how DOGE works and what it does may end up shielded from the public. Mr. Musk hopes to join the administration as a special government employee, according to a person familiar with his plan, a designation intended to avoid triggering a transparency law requiring government panels that include private citizens to conduct their meetings in public and make their documents available. It remains to be seen whether many other DOGE staffers will also have that designation. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/mPyLTNu7Ee-0vw8oaflxlA/archive.is/NlrSz)