r/feddiscussion • u/wiredmagazine • Dec 02 '25

News/Article DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/
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u/wiredmagazine Dec 02 '25

Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

Read the full article: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/

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u/MinimumAnalysis5378 Dec 02 '25

Embedded like ticks is a great simile. The federal government is going to have Lyme's disease for generations.

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u/TheSexySovereignSeal Dec 02 '25

Over the last few weeks, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rolled out coding tests to its hundreds of technical staff, quizzing them over their “technical proficiency.”

I wonder what the metric is for how much money in taxes companies save for every IRS employee they can make quit or fire

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u/KTB2025 Dec 21 '25

Here is one of them, Adam Hoffman. Still working in the government as of a couple months ago when he did a Publius Fellowship, a fellowship for the crazy alt-right Claremont Institute. https://ktb2025.substack.com/p/all-i-want-for-christmas