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The United States Digital Service is now DOGE.

USDS was founded under President Barack Obama to revamp healthcare.gov and do other White House tech consulting work. A Trump executive order renames it to the United States DOGE Service (the United States Department of Government Efficiency Service, if you unpack the nesting acronym) and orders it to “improve the quality and efficiency” of government software and other IT services.

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