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The United States Digital Service is now DOGE — here’s what it was responsible for.
The USDS was set up under Obama, and it was more or less the federal government’s software product management group. I interviewed outgoing head Mina Hsiang on Decoder in 2023, and it was one of our most popular episodes that year — it turns out being the PM of healthcare.gov looks a lot like being the PM of any other software product.
Trump’s executive order creating DOGE says USDS is now the US DOGE Service, so we’ll see if Elon Musk approaches the government’s tech teams the same way he did Twitter. It’s a lot riskier to screw up the VA website!
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