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POGO director warns Oversight Committee Democrats of 'generational damage' to federal civil service
Summary
Faith Williams, director of the Effective and Accountable Government Program at the Project on Government Oversight, told members of the Oversight Committee Democrats that recent executive actions and a White House entity she called 'Doge' have weakened oversight, driven mass departures of federal employees and degraded public services; she urged Congress to enact reforms and offered detailed proposals.
Faith Williams, director of the Effective and Accountable Government Program at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), told members of the Oversight Committee Democrats that recent actions by the Trump administration have inflicted "generational damage" on the federal civil service and weakened public safeguards.
"The result is generational damage to our merit based civil service, a failure of government services, a flourishing culture of corruption and abuse of power, and a people whose faith in their government is nearing all time lows," Williams said in testimony.
Williams described an unconventional White House entity she called "Doge," which she said "acted as an agency when it was handy to assume authority and acted as a White House office when it was handy to avoid accountability." She said the effort, which she tied to billionaire Elon Musk in her testimony, "took a chainsaw to government" and failed to…
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