New EPA guidance says spending items greater than $50,000 must get approval from DOGE

https://www.yahoo.com/news/epa-guidance-says-spending-items-174813911.html

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  1. **From AP:**

    The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new guidance directing that spending items greater than $50,000 now require approval from Elon Musk’s [Department of Government Efficiency.](https://apnews.com/article/doge-federal-job-cuts-congressional-districts-data-5d79e2a7ef2160166b0bee59dfa4e9e2)

    The guidance, issued this week, escalates the role that the new efficiency group, known as DOGE, plays in EPA operations.

    “Any assistance agreement, contract or interagency agreement transaction (valued at) $50,000 or greater must receive approval from an EPA DOGE team member,″ the EPA guidance says, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

  2. > “It is already established by court order that it is Congress that authorizes and appropriates funds for specific purposes, not the (White House) Office of Management and Budget or the president via executive order or DOGE.”

    Thank you to Senator Whitehouse for making this plain as day. DOGE has no authority over agency spending, that power is delegated to congress in the separation of powers section of the US Constitution. DOGE’s mission, as approved by congress, is to build and maintain government IT systems, and every branch of government has every right to rein them in for overreach.

  3. I honestly thought it would take longer than six weeks to have political commissars installed in each agency

  5. I mean, fuck it. What’s a healthy environment ever done for ME?

  6. Thanks department of government efficiency, that sounds efficient

  7. Time to start breaking every project down into $49000 chunks

  8. So a teenager who knows nothing about environmental or policy now needs to approve or deny all spending

  10. Trump just said doge is t a thing. Dumbest mfkrs is history.

  11. Most of the cabinet pics that he did are just there to be talking heads while President, Elon and big balls do their bidding. Not one of these people is there to actually run the agency. The border Czar is running Homeland security along with Steven Miller, not the former Governor of South Dakota. President Elon is running everything including our largest budget item, the department of defense.

  12. Three iterations of this form so far, signed, submitted, new process created, new rules, signed submitted again… much efficient 🙄 very doge

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