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- 1Musk's DOGE team's wrecking of Washington examined●'Elon is my prophet': how Musk's DOGE team took a wrecking ball to Washington
A Guardian feature examines how Elon Musk's DOGE team carried out sweeping cuts across the US federal government, driven by a devoted corps of young staffers. The piece describes the department's rapid dismantling of agencies and programs, portraying a culture of near-religious devotion to Musk and raising questions about the lasting damage to Washington's institutions.
- 2From Civic Tech to DOGE: Tech Movements and the American Administrative State●From Civic Tech to DOGE: The Role of Tech Movements in the American Admin State
A new academic article examines how technology-driven movements, from the civic tech era to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have shaped the American administrative state. The piece traces how reformers with tech backgrounds moved from open-government and civic innovation efforts to aggressive efficiency-driven restructuring of federal agencies, and asks what this shift means for public administration.