Trump made DOGE part of the government: What to know

The parade of executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office included one renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. It further directed that DOGE be established within the Executive Office of the President.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Department of Government Efficiency, President Donald Trump‘s special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, has formally joined the government whose size it is supposed to help shrink.
The Digital Service was created by President Barack Obama in 2014 to modernize the government’s approach to technology. Its chief original mission was to fix the many glitches and digital problems that plagued the rollout of HealthCare.gov, the site associated with Obama’s signature health care law, which Trump has spent most of his political career bashing.
Here’s a look at what becoming part of the government might mean for DOGE:
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A vow to cut billions of dollars
When he announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency in November, Trump said it would “provide advice and guidance from outside of government.”
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DOGE was originally headed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who jointly vowed to cut billions from the federal budget and usher in “mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy.”
But Ramaswamy left DOGE this week as he mulls a run for governor of Ohio.
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A government website, doge.gov, has been created to accompany @DOGE on X, the social media platform that Musk owns.
The webpage has a message describing it as “an official website