The anti-Trump protests are so embarrassing that even local subreddits are pooping on them

They're reported to Congress and the agency heads have to come to papa when called to the carpet.

If Congress doesn't do anything, it's on them. The data was always there.

Now—DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency has about as much legal authority as a neighborhood watch—it can make noise, file reports, and act self-important, but it can't actually do anything unless Congress explicitly gives it enforcement authority.

The Government Accountability Office was created by Congress and has real legal standing under federal statute. GAO has statutory authority to audit and investigate federal spending under 31 U.S.C. §§ 701-720, but even it can't unilaterally force agencies to act—only Congress can enforce its findings.

GAO, when producing reports, has to be meticulously factual—every claim must be referenced, documented, and verifiable. If they say a grant is being misspent, they have to show the exact line item where that money is being wasted. If they only have verbal claims, they have to explicitly note that agency officials claimed it, instead of presenting it as fact. They allow rebuttals, Agency heads get 30 days to formally respond, and they follow strict statutory processes to ensure their findings are accurate and legally defensible.

That's not politically expedient.

Now DOGE wasn't created by Congress, has no statutory authority, and is basically are glorified consultants. It can issue recommendations and make noise about inefficiencies, and tweet factually questionable information to their hearts content, but without real enforcement power, it's just an expensive think tank with a government logo slapped on it.

The EO that claims to be "supercharging DOGE" (get it? ) will be challenged and held up in court six ways from Sunday. The Necessary and Proper Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, grants Congress the authority to establish and regulate agencies as necessary to execute its enumerated powers. Consequently, agencies only exist because Congress fricking created them, and as such, Congress holds the sole responsibility for defining their powers, limitations, and hiring regulations.

Changing shit like suitability criteria and declaring mass RIFs requires procedures to be followed like notice and comment periods for proposed rule changes in the case of suitability and following the CSRA in the case of mass RIFs.

DOGE is designed to churn out "findings" fast—a rapid-fire political weapon meant to create a flurry of bad headlines, tweets and based memearinos about government spending on trans NOGS before Trump runs out of political capital.