It is truly appalling when TV anchors like Jake Tapper and even the NY Times, and multiple other people who should know better than to call Elon Musk’s advisory panel, playground, commision a Department. A department can Only be created and funded by Congress, starting with the State Department in 1790 and, most recently, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs established in 1987.

The “DOGE” is essentially Musk and Company with a specious label “Department” fronted by the Trump Administration and lapped up by much of the media, increasingly whitewashing Trump’s behavior, presenting a “fair and balanced” daily accounting of the Republican executive’s “novel approach to governing”. To dub something a department, when able News outlet’s the the Guardian. DO NOT BE FOOLED: This may seem a small thing, but it symbolizes something much bigger.