Government Accountability Office rejects DOGE effort to target government watchdog

The GAO told the Washington Examiner that it denied DOGE’s requests to assign a team at the office because the watchdog is part of the legislative branch and, therefore, not subject to the executive order DOGE cited in its attempt to access it.

“I can confirm that GAO has been contacted by DOGE staffers seeking to assign a team to GAO citing the President’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order entitled, ‘Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency.’ As a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO,” a GAO spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.

NOTUS reported that GAO emailed employees just after noon Friday with the same

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