A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There

lawn

Just the deaths of hundreds of thousands, nothing to see here.

imzadi

Interesting to see how USAID in the title is like the bat signal for scumbags

paul7986

omg have the political bots been directed at Hacker News. WTH?

seany

This type of strategy is almost the only way to get rid of these kinds of agencies. You'd end up with a million raodblocks being tossed up if you tried it any other way.

alsetmusic

We’ll be reading about the crimes of dodge for years, similar to secrets of the CIA coming out in the 1970s. Wish politicians in US weren’t so spineless about going after them.

binarymax

Whether or not you agree or disagree with the merits of USAID is beside the point. A single unelected and unqualified person must not be given the authority to dismantle a massive US government program.

labrador

Are we going to prosecute these people or what?

podgorniy

That will become a point in a court...

ZeroGravitas

There's something about the trick of abusing a process set up to hire temporary staff quickly for overseas disasters and pandemics to take over and destroy a government department you don't like that feels LLM-like to me. I wonder if Musk's team is using AI to find loopholes in laws he can abuse.

vrganj

That 28 year old is responsible for around the same number of deaths as the Rwandan genocide. [0] [1] [0] https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=proj... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide

insane_dreamer

It will be interesting to see whether in the next Admin/Congress , if Democrat, will investigate and declare these actions unlawful (done without Congressional approval) and whether a new DOJ will investigate the individuals like this DOGE dude as having broken the law for operating outside their authority because the proper procedures weren’t followed. It’s going to be interesting to see whether/who winds up in jail.

stefap2

DOGE was such a missed opportunity. If only they could use their smarts to actually improve government efficiency. Also focusing on where majority of spending occurs where we could get biggest bang for the improved efficiency. After this good luck selling someone on another round of efficiency improvements.

AnimalMuppet

So who issued his paychecks?

moribvndvs

Just about every one of these guys looks like a character in KOTOR in early to mid dark side alignment. Thin, pale faces with dark, sunken eyes.