DOGE – What’s Happening?

DOGE-Department of Government Efficiency was created to address cost cutting goals. DOGE may have left the media’s headlines along with Elon Musk, but DOGE remains and is still at work. What is DOGE doing and what is its impact? What do Americans need to know? How has DOGE changed the federal government and what other changes could it make?

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Algernon Austin has conducted research and writing on issues of race and racial inequality for over 20 years. His current primary focus is on the low rate of employment in Black America, one of the three major labor market challenges facing this population, and on using subsidized employment as a tool to address this problem. Austin also has an interest in social housing, infrastructure, racial wealth inequality, and other topics at the intersection of race and the economy. Austin has a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, and he taught sociology as a faculty member at Wesleyan University. He has held positions at the Economic Policy Institute, the Center for Global Policy Solutions, Dēmos, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has discussed racial inequality on PBS, CNN, NPR, and other national television and radio networks.
Jonathan Maier is Senior Litigation Counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan nonprofit government watchdog that works for transparency and accountability in government and to preserve America’s democratic institutions. Among other cases, he is currently leading CREW’s litigation in CREW v. DOGE et al., a lawsuit seeking to ensure that DOGE is subject to and complies with the Freedom of Information Act and Federal Records Act. Jon is also a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. Prior to joining CREW, Jon spent 10 years as a litigator in the Washington, DC office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
Peter Coy, moderator, is a freelance journalist covering economics, business and finance. He was previously a staff writer for The Associated Press, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Opinion section of The New York Times. He is a graduate of Cornell University.