DOGE Begins Publishing Data After Transparency Complaints
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began publishing data on federal agencies yesterday after questions and complaints arose about the office’s transparency.
As of now, the DOGE website contains social media posts from its X account; aggregate work force data about federal agencies’ head counts, wages, and subordinate offices; and statistics on federal regulations.Â
The website promises to release information on DOGE’s much-touted savings to taxpayers “no later than Valentine’s day.”
The website also incorporates an “Unconstitutionality Index” created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank. The index, which CEI began in 2003, compares the number of rules issued by federal agencies to the number of laws passed by Congress every year.
The summary statistics and organizational chart are a first step in making DOGE’s work, and the federal government’s work, more open to the public, although much more is needed. Reducing federal spending and increasing government efficiency are both directionally correct goals, but those efforts should be subject to the same sunshine that Musk says he is bri
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