The reality on the ground is that DOGE employees are reviewing systems, processes, data, personnel and making recommendations, recommendations to the agency heads. Then The agency head, in most cases a cabinet member appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, is the one with the authority to make those discretionary calls. Now, of course, this is a tremendous, it is a tremendous project, as I indicated earlier, to reform our governments giant bureaucracy. (09:26–09:39)
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Asserts that agency heads, often Trump-appointed cabinet members, have authority over discretionary decisions.
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