Feb. 4, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s false claim that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service is an “unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government”:
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knows full well that President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service is acting directly on behalf of the President of the United States, that it is doing so under his constitutional Article II powers to execute the laws of the United States, and that it was established under law, 5 U.S.C. Sec. 3161, by executive order as the law provides, as a temporary organization in the Executive Office of the President, not unlike its predecessor, the U.S. Digital Service. The sad fact that Congress has not done its oversight duties and have left the waste intact is a reflection on Schumer’s fecklessness. To call a temporary White House operated and deputized organization like DOGE an ‘unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government’ may play well with his radical online donors and public employee unions, but it is election denying nonsense.”
Attachments:
5 U.S.C. Sec. 3161 at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3161:
(a)Definition of Temporary Organization.—For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “temporary organization” means a commission, committee, board, or other organization that—
(1) is established by law or Executive order for a specific period not in excess of three years for the purpose of performing a specific study or other project; and
(2) is terminated upon the completion of the study or project or upon the occurrence of a condition related to the completion of the study or project.
“Executive Order Establishing And Implementing The President’s ‘Department Of Government Efficiency’,” Jan. 20, 2025 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ : “There shall be a USDS Administrator established in the Executive Office of the President who shall report to the White House Chief of Staff. There is further established within USDS, in accordance with section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, a temporary organization known as ‘the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization’.”
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