Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Wasn’t there a mandated limit to how much time he could serve in that role? Not to say he wouldn’t have abandoned them, but he was moreso forced out is my understanding. Not that this administration has an issue bending the rules when it feels like (read: completely ignoring them)

    • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
      4·
      9 hours ago

      For the purpose of sections 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of this title the term “special Government employee” shall mean an officer or employee of the executive or legislative branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States or of the District of Columbia, who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed to perform, with or without compensation, for not to exceed one hundred and thirty days during any period of three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days

      — 18 USC § 202(a)

      Highlight is mine, but yes. There’s a limit of 130 days.