DOGE created a 'survey of surveys' for a push to cut some government data collection

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

May 23, 2025 2:57 PM ET


In a new push to end some U.S. government surveys, the Trump administration's DOGE team has created its own.

This week, Ethan Shaotran, a member of the unit set up by President Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk, used a General Services Administration email address to send a seven-page form titled "2025 Survey of Surveys" to federal agencies, according to documents NPR obtained from a federal agency official who was not authorized to share it with the press.

The move raises questions about whether the controversial team is bypassing the White House's Office of Management and Budget, where federal law set up a subagency to oversee the federal government's statistical activities. The team that calls itself the

"Department of Government Efficiency" may be, in fact, duplicating OMB's ongoing review of federal surveys and the resources they require, some government data watchers say. This effort is also sparking concerns about potential violations of laws that require the government to report the statistics that a canceled survey would produce.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409331/doge-data-census-bureau

[Captain Zero]

1. They are going to "cook the books".

Criminals.

[yellow dahlia]

2. They are making sure they disfigure or break every aspect of our governmental infrastructure. n/t

[Wiz Imp]

3. Since almost all the information they claim to be trying to collect is already available

this makes me think there is definitely an ulterior (bad) motive for this.

[A Badger]

4. The transcripts are gone,

the data will be cooked,...

"One ring to rule them all,
...and in the darkness bind them."

Or:
"He who controls the spice, controls the universe."

And:
"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"