> Department of Government Efficiency
This is a lie, and I wish reporters would stop amplifying it through repetition. The name was chosen to purposely trick the public. There is no such government department, and the people in the group are not government employees either. (Which relates to them promoting rules they would never obey themselves.)
Anybody reporting the phrase verbatim like this is not being objective nor practicing good journalism, but the opposite: It promotes a falsehood and misleads readers.
What do say instead? Even with the cringe-worthy acronym, "DOGE commission" would be a step up: It doesn't mislead people, it correctly characterizes the nature of the group, and it is distinct enough for accurate identification.
In saner times it would be named something like "Presidential Commission on Government Efficiency" from the start.
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