Conversations among staff at the Department of Government Efficiency will soon be off-limits to public records requests.
DOGE employees were instructed to temporarily halt messaging on Slack as they migrate from the Office of Management and Budget to the Executive Office of the President, according to messages reviewed by 404 Media.
“As a reminder, please refrain from using Slack at the moment while our various general counsels figure out the best way to handle the records migration to our new EOP component,” one message reads.
The Obama-era United States Digital Service was reorganized into DOGE by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day back in office.
“I spoke to the DOGE team about Slack,” another message reads. “Because of the USDS split from OMB, OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now.”
“We expect this to be a temporary pause, and we expect to continue having access to historical Slack material. We may have intermittent access as we go through this system transition so continue to use good data hygiene and backup any critical material,” it added.
Trump’s move to place DOGE under the EOP instead of the OMB means that the contentious committee is now subject to the Presidential Records Act instead of the Freedom of Information Act.
The Presidential Records Act allows presidents to restrict public access to their records. Under the act, presidential records can only be obtained via FOIA requests at least five years after the end of the administration.
Last November, Musk said in a post on X that “there should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency.”
Don McGahn, a lawyer who served as White House counsel during Trump’s first term, earlier told The Dispatch DOGE’s setup involved “very good and clever lawyering.”
“They clearly thought it through and did their homework,” he said.
DOGE goons have been revealed to be young Musk fanatics with little work experience, with the youngest team member reportedly being a 19-year-old college freshman. Musk lackeys recently seized control of federal agencies, including the federal payment system, in a bid to cut down government spending.
