Why do people keep harping on the age. I don't care about how old they are, I know plenty of cracked teenagers. I care that they have no constitutional authority.
I think it's the dumbest, high confidence kids(with big egos) in the room who agree to do shit like this.
Show me one.
I really do care that the kid is writing code because Bessent told senior Republicans in a closed-door meeting Musk et al only have read access and that through another person (Krause). If this kid is writing code, he's doing so without legal authority. This isn't a coup, it's espionage.
That's just play on words at this time
Clearly the federal government has been compromised by private citizens with unclear, or secret, affiliations to the president and his associates
Congress and the courts seem unable to repel the attack so far
Yes, some teenagers and 25 year olds are capable, and probably do in fact, write system-critical code
But having people who previously had nothing to do with the government, take over a federal system, with seemingly no experience managing those types of systems before, is very alarming
Opinion article that at least explains some of the authority that DOGE may have. DOGE is operating under U.S. Digital Service which was started by Obama, not congress, with a mission to assist other government services with technology, and may have authority via OMB and the president if the affected departs resist.
Nice to finally get some details, instead of rank speculation on all sides.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5126111-department-government-ef...