Over the past few days, people working for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, Elon Musk’s shadowy quasi-governmental organization, have reportedly demanded access to the Department of the Treasury’s payment system. According to press reports, they have grabbed control of the Office of Personnel Management’s computer system, locking out regular employees. They have “taken over” the General Services Administration. These appear not to be isolated incidents but parts of a haphazard effort to circumvent ordinary democratic controls to repurpose the U.S. state.
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