The United States Digital Service (USDS), the storied group of Silicon Valley types brought together by Obama to bring government services into the 21st century, will likely never be the same after the arrival of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). If, that is, it survives at all. USDS employees began resigning from the organization after Trump won the election in November. USDS deputy administrator Ted Carstensen resigned in the first week of February, after several unsuccessful attempts to get face time with the DOGE workers. Just a few days after those resignations, 50 of the 150 or so USDS employees lost their jobs in DOGE’s first major round of layoffs. Wired reported last week that DOGE personnel operated separately from the remaining USDS employees. Read the story: https://bit.ly/3XGp4Qv