Senate Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would require a sweeping audit of federal computer systems and networks accessed by DOGE staffers.
Those employees were dispatched across the government as part of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The government-wide operation, previously led by Elon Musk, was tasked by the president with modernizing federal technology and software to “maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”
With Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, the legislation — introduced by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — has virtually no chance of becoming law.
Still, the legislation represents the latest signal of Democratic lawmakers’ discontent with DOGE staffers’ broad influence over government operations and the lawmakers’ attempt to galvanize the public against the DOGE operation.
