
President Trump's administration took a page from an unlikely book--that of former President Obama, in creating the inaptly named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). To get around the public meeting/comment and reporting requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972, the DOGE is not an advisory committee under FACA but instead a temporary organization under the new U.S. DOGE Service (USDS). The latter is a renaming of Obama's U.S. Digital Service--also USDS, created in 2014 to hire temporary…