Billionaire -investor Mark Cuban Recently a lot to say about the Ministry of Government Efficiency and its recent initiatives.
Cubaan speculated that initially that Elon MuskThe team of the team may have data from USASPending.GOV – a public database -tracking of federal expenses – then presented and it presents as if they had discovered wasting costs themselves. In the beginning he found the move 'brilliant', even compare with Donald Trump's Tactics and said: “I fooled me. Very Trump like too. “But his opinion changed quickly.
“Not so brilliant,” Cuban wrote in a follow -up post on Bluesky and responded to criticism that Doge had burned out almost $ 7 million in taxpayers in just a week. A Roll -Call Article that Cuban shared reported that money was allocated for 'software modernization initiative'.
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As a house democratic assistant has explained to the outlet valve, the doge gets “to work on behalf of the agencies and use their money to pay for it.”
Doge was founded under a Trump-Executive Order, to replace the American digital service and giving Musk Authority about the government-wide IT upgrades and spending assessments. But critics claim that it does much more – giving musk -access to sensitive government data in his search to close federal programs.
According to data made public by the Office of Management and Budget, the financing – $ 6.75 million so far – have chosen in two chunks:
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$ 750,000 on January 27
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$ 6 million on January 30
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A remarkable change in the DOGE financing structure is that it now has its own treasury drawing, regardless of the supervision of information technology and the reform budget.
An official of the White House claimed that this was only a continuation of funds that had previously been assigned to the American digital service. However, the lack of transparency about how Doge uses the money has expressed worries.
Meanwhile, Top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and house redress leader Hakeem JeffriesWorking on legislation to block Musk's access to federal data.
