In March 2010, Barack Obama created the Reasonably priced Care Act with zero Republican assist. The legislation was a lightweight type of socialized healthcare much like how such programs are operated in Europe.
Obamacare wanted each single vote as a way to go. It took a whole lot of work to get the required votes to go the overhaul of a complete trade.
The 60-39 vote to go the invoice within the U.S. Senate was reliant on the Senate Democrat votes from Alaska, Mark Begich, who gained after the Division of Justice lied and prosecuted Republican Senator Ted Stevens. One of many two prosecutors from the Division’s infamous “Public Integrity” division within the Stevens case, Nicholas Marsh, dedicated suicide when the Division began investigating his crimes whereas prosecuting the case. The vote to go Obamacare was additionally reliant on the suspicious recount within the Minnesota Senate race the place Coleman gained re-election solely to be recounted right into a 312-vote loss to comic Al Franken.
The passage of the partisan, controversial, overhaul of the nation’s healthcare additionally sparked the Tea Social gathering motion of motivated conservatives who wished an outright repeal of this system. The Tea Social gathering is basically credited with Republicans retaking management of the U.S. Home within the 2010 when 63 Home seats modified arms and 6 Senate seats modified in favor of the Republicans.
When passing Obamacare, Democrats lied about whether or not you may maintain your outdated insurance coverage. They lied concerning the prices and high quality of the protection. They lied about whether or not it will result in rationing of care. They lied about whether or not it will result in larger prices. They lied about whether or not it would cowl unlawful immigrants. They lied about whether or not it will cowl transgender surgical procedures. They lied about whether or not it will cowl abortions. They lied about how Obamacare would have an effect on the economic system. They lied that it will create jobs.
As a part of the legislation, among the financial savings used to create a type of nationalized healthcare, the gross sales and advertising of the system was put on-line in order that as a substitute of hiring salesmen and spending cash on advertising, every little thing can be dealt with by means of an agile and strong web site.
A part of the alleged huge financial savings of this system was going to return from digitizing among the conventional back-end providers like gross sales and advertising, by placing them on the web site.
The one downside was, like most left-wing fantasies, actuality received in the best way.
The Obamacare web site was a catastrophe.
They initially stated it value $200 million to make. Ultimately it will value over $840 million. It wouldn’t work in any respect within the Safari browser. It recurrently crashed.
When then-President Barack Obama tried to symbolically join the system, it crashed and couldn’t confirm his identification.
The Obamacare web site contract had been given to an in depth private pal of Michelle Obama, her school classmate at Princeton Toni Townes-Whitley. Townes-Whitney was a Vice President at authorities contractor CGI Federal. The agency was lower than the problem. Since then, Townes-Whitley has led protection contractor Science Purposes Worldwide, or “SAIC,” as its CEO.
For her half, requested final month about DOGE on Bloomberg, Townes-Whitley stated she appeared ahead to participating with Musk’s crew and admitted that authorities spending will “seemingly be extra circumspect.”
Requested by Bloomberg if she had been approached by DOGE or Musk, Townes-Whitley stated she had not.
In 2014 when the federal government was attempting to repair the damaged Obamacare web site that her agency had made, the brand new contractors they introduced in had been unable to take action. The contractors had been caught doing nothing, sitting at computer systems, and easily hitting refresh.
Even the New York Instances was compelled to confess the web site’s disastrous rollout was a “significant issue.”
As an answer to the issue, as a substitute of admitting that the seller with private friendships with Obama had created a billion greenback web site that didn’t work, the answer was to create the “United States Digital Service.” The USDS was given the authority to repair the Obamacare web site, HealthCare.gov.
The USDS was formally created on August 11, 2014 and its first head was a former Google engineer Mikey Dickerson. Dickerson is now a professor of Pc Science at Pomona Faculty. Dickerson was succeeded by Matt Cutts, one other engineering veteran from Google. Cutts was changed by Mina Hsiang who served because the Administrator through the Biden administration.
Dickerson instructed the New York Instances in 2017 that Trump’s first election in 2016 was a “disaster” for him and his employees, who felt as if it was a “punch within the intestine” once they realized they’d new bosses. However, they stated, associates of the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner got here to their conferences to reassure them.
Dickerson oddly exhibits up within the 2018 Senate race in Alabama, the place left-wing billionaire funder Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, gave $750,000 that was spent selling disinformation within the hotly-contested Senate race between left-wing lawyer Doug Jones and conservative legal professional Roy Moore. Dickerson helped promote a completely false narrative that Moore was supported by Russian bots and brokers of Russia.
In 2017, Donald Trump tried to repeal Obamacare however misplaced by one vote when RINO Senator John McCain voted in opposition to it, reportedly out of spite for Trump, despite the fact that mendacity McCain had campaigned on voting to repeal the legislation.
Though Obamacare was not repealed, and despite the fact that the HealthCare.gov web site was now purposeful for the reason that Google engineers had been introduced in to bail out Michelle Obama’s pal, the U.S. Digital Service or USDS continued with funding and staffing and authority as a ‘expertise unit’ of the Government workplace of the President.
Importantly, the service was given the authority to research and function the tech backends of all federal departments and companies.
President Trump tasked USDS, aka DOGE, with a “Software program Modernization Initiative” to replace software program, community and IT infrastructure throughout the federal authorities. This provides it entry to the complete authorities, and makes refusing their requests a violation of a Presidential order.
The USDS web site claims it was beforehand “fixing huge issues” however its record of tasks make it appear to be it was barely poking across the margins of the large $6 trillion federal paperwork with 2.2 million workers.
The USDS proudly showcased on its web site that it was engaged on:
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Creating COVID-19 “Vaccine Finder” instruments
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Conducting analysis on the way to enhance the Social Safety Administration’s web site
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Serving to create a plain language method for Veterans to replace their discharge standing
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Simplifying veteran providers on VA.gov
So when Elon Musk got here storming into Washington with Trump’s authority and blessing searching for to trim a trillion {dollars} in waste, fraud, and abuse from the finances, when Musk desires to look into Treasury’s monetary programs that by no means flip down a monetary request, when Trump desires to audit the Pentagon, this decorative service left as a holdover from Obama fixing his spouse’s errors in selecting distributors, was lower than the duty.
Musk is discovering huge proof of fraud all through the programs he’s investigating. Simply inside the previous few days, Musk has stated the Treasury is making common funds to people with out social safety numbers or different identification, a state of affairs the place long-time Treasury officers suspect as much as $50 billion in annual fraud is going on.
The construction was arrange for Trump to create DOGE utilizing present authority, an present governmental entity, with present funding. Usually a brand new division wouldn’t solely should be approved by Congress for its authorized authority, however its funding would additionally must be individually secured within the annual appropriations course of.
Trump didn’t want Congress to behave, the place NeverTrumpers like Mitch McConnell may stall or delay his agenda. Trump was empowered to behave as a result of Obama had arrange this service with devoted funding as a way to repair the mess he made by giving a significant authorities contract to his spouse’s school classmate.
In President Trump’s Government Order authorizing DOGE, Trump reorganized and renamed the USA Digital Service as the USA DOGE Service. The DOGE groups had the authority to work within the data expertise backend of each governmental company.
Legal professional Tom Renz has an glorious evaluation of Trump’s Government Order creating DOGE.
In a single Government Order, Trump was capable of give Elon Musk entry to, and authority over, the federal government’s technological backbones.
The irony of the state of affairs is definitely not misplaced on Obama, as Trump dismantles the numerous funding mechanisms the left has used to perpetuate and amplify its monetary and ‘tender energy’ domestically and internationally.
Obama Judges are at the moment attempting to cease Musk and DOGE claiming it’s going to trigger “irreparable hurt” if Musk and his crew are given read-only entry to monetary cost data. Democrats are attempting to arrange weak nationwide protests in opposition to Musk and Trump. Musk has since proposed that Congress take away 1% of the worst federal judges yearly.
The tech division that Obama arrange is, right now, within the means of shutting down Elizabeth Warren’s Client Monetary Safety Bureau.
