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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's the point of the audit if it doean't matter and if it isn't enforced?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

I wonder if they are planning a party for the 10th anniversary.

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is like a ton of things with the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO is required to conduits audits and report failures to Congress. It's then up to Congress to hand out punishment. The problem is that the US Congress routinely lacks a spine to do anything.

But this is also why DOGE is seemingly redundant here. Everything that DOGE did is basically the same thing the GAO does. The difference is the GAO reports to Congress and DOGE reported to the President. That said, the President cannot unilaterally cut spending to anything as the Constitution indicates that power belongs to Congress. This is where a lot of challenges to DOGE come from.

However, those challenges mostly ended when Congress passed public law 119-28 which basically said all the cuts DOGE made were cool. However, there's still challenges about those order of operations there, in that DOGE can't have made the cuts until Congress said they were cool. And only on the date that Congress said they were cool with the cuts can they actually be cut. So money has to be spent for the in between time from when DOGE made a cut and when Congress said it was cool.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

However, there's still challenges about those order of operations there

Here me out though, time itself is woke, after all grammatical tense which is nothing less than the expression of time in language is embedded into the word woke, so nothing could be more woke than time.

With this in mind your arguments revolving around the fiddly details of things coming before other things and drawing speculative conclusions based off that here are invalid and collapse into partisan DEI nonsense.