Over the past two and a half months, Musk’s DOGE team has also gained access to the Internal Revenue Service, which stores bank account information and purchase itemizations, and the Social Security Administration, which houses individuals’ lifetime wages and disability and citizenship status.
While one of DOGE’s more immediate goals appears to be leveraging AI to streamline administrative tasks, as well as eventually privatizing Social Security, Musk’s ultimate goal of eliminating fraud and waste remains mysterious to some.
“[It’s] never really been clear what the long game is,” Cary Coglianese, an administrative law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, told Fortune.
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“Ostensibly, we’ve been told it’s to try to improve the efficiency, maybe to identify where there are people who are getting paid who are not really living, or methods for auditing payroll systems.
“This doesn’t seem to be following any of those conventions, as far as anybody can tell from the outside,” he added. “And there isn’t really a clear articulation of an overarching vision.”
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