Terry Gerton: One of the other aspects about transparent government operations is being able to track the funding. Your report indicates it’s not particularly clear where DOGE’s funding is coming from and surely they’re not all working for free.
Faith Williams: Surely they’re not all working for free, I would imagine that as well. I believe it was ProPublica worked to identify it was nearly $40 million of funding, and this was a few weeks ago, at least, was heading to DOGE. And a good example of DOGE acting in an agency gray zone is this. The law that the White House used to take money from some agencies and give it to DOGE is a law used for fiscal transfer between two agencies. Not necessarily between an agency and a gray zone, if that makes sense, or between an agency in a group of people. So if DOGE is an agency, then that transfer of money, at least on the face, at least initially, is perfectly fine, perfectly legal. And if they’re an agency in that sense, then they should be keeping their records, for example. Their employees should be held to, it should be more clear who’s working there. So there’s implications for ethics and conflicts of interest that come into play as well. If you’re an agency, if you’re not an agency. If you’re a special government employer, if you’re a full-time government employee, things like that.
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