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Can one request all of the code this dude has written or is it as his discretion what is released to the public domain?

idk try to make a FOIA request

DOGE moving under the presidents executive office instead of as a separate agency seemed to be done for the purpose of shielding DOGE From FOIA and only subject to President Records Act

A reference for those curious:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-do...

Which is hilarious because they promised DOGE was going to be all about transparency

....and that was a lie.

Also they've been hoovering up cash like it's going out of style. I think at last count DOGE had slurped up $40M and nobody knows where it's gone

Probably Elon’s margin calls since TSLA has been going to shit.

And Trump's history with that act suggests it'll go to the highest bidder, foreign or domestic

Is it OK to make baseless accusations on Hacker News now? When did that become OK?

So your conceptual model of keeping secure documenys in a bathroom ?

After yesterday, hardly baseless.

Not really baseless when he was caught with classified documents after he was selling them to the highest bidder.

Yes americas right wing courts blocked justice from being applied in this case but this would hardly be baseless.

Only if you are attacking Trump or anything his administration is doing.

He could always try committing fewer crimes, and see how that goes for him.

I'm not asking how to go about requesting his code, I'm asking whether the policy you cite allows him to decide what is public domain himself or if one has to work through processes and procedures to release and obtain that code.

If they are an actual federal employee then they will need a 'cooling off' period before they can work in the private sector in an area related to their government work (I don't see that happening).

This depends on their role. That more applies to people involved in contract decisions and execution (the legal/financial parts, not the doing the technical work part). For programmers, they can move back and forth relatively freely, but should go through their agency's legal office to be certain.

Right, well ... the DOGE staffers (which assumes they are actually employed) seem to be primarily focused on contract decisions and execution.

If they are just data analysis and gathering, that's not exactly contract negotiation.

> they are just data analysis and gathering

They are not. They de facto cancelled contracts while rooting around at the Treasury. Given the lack of transparency at DOGE, it’s unclear how the front-line bros can claim they were following official instructions versus making calls on their own.

Does that also applied to all of the employees that have been DOGEd? For example, would someone that just got fired from NOAA need a cooling off period before getting hired at AccuWeather? That seems to be the MAGA solution for all of the NOAA employees.

Not necessarily, see my other comment. If they were involved in, say, a contract selection to integrate with AccuWeather's other data sources and models then they could be restricted from working at AccuWeather or in what they can do at AccuWeather. It looks like a quid pro quo if you're involved in contract selection and get hired by that same company. Introducing the delay reduces that appearance, it also makes a real quid pro quo less likely.

If they were a meteorologist conducting analysis and improving models, they could get hired on without difficulty. If they were the developer tasked with doing that integration after the contract was awarded, it also shouldn't be an issue to get hired by AccuWeather.

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