“What happened when the world’s most powerful man unleashed the world’s richest one on the world’s most complex institution?” That’s the question Wired writers set out to answer by interviewing more than 200 federal workers about the experience of living through DOGE’s upending of the US government. What they found was devastation and chaos, inflicted by ineptitude, arrogance, and ignorance:
During the early weeks of the administration, emails from DOGE started showing up in federal workers’ inboxes—or at least in their spam folders.
“I logged on to find several emails tagged ‘External,’ because DOGE just brought in their own servers and plugged them into the network. Then there were several subsequent emails from different leaders saying things like, ‘Thank you for all the phishing reports, but the emails are real and need to be followed. But also please keep reporting things that look like phishing. Except from DOGE … but probably even then. And this is totally fine and normal.’” —Contractor for the Veterans Administration
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