Uh Oh! Elon Musk's DOGE Is Getting Audited by the Government

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is getting a taste of its own medicine. Since March, Wired reports, the Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative agency of Congress, has been auditing the Trump administration's initiative to slash federal expenditures. The probe concerns how DOGE, which GAO refers to as the US DOGE Service (USDS), handled sensitive data at multiple agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, the Treasury, the Social Security Administration, and even DOGE itself. To do that, GAO is seeking incident reports on "potential or actual misuse of agency system or data," and other relevant documentation that could illuminate whether DOGE is taking necessary precautions as it sifts through mountains of information, according to Wired, including documentation from the agencies that DOGE is pawing through. As a guiding principle, GAO investigators are focusing on DOGE's adh ... Read full article.