Digging into claim that Obama created DOGE and Trump just renamed it (www.snopes.com)

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.

Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts

So Obama created DOGE like socialism created the Nazis.

[-] A_norny_mousse@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks! First time I’m seeing this. One minute later, debunked (and yes I did click the snopes link). We’re getting better at this.

Also, still with Obama. Having a non-white president really broke some of them.

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