Resolves on news reports from at least one of:
• ABC
• CBS
• NBC
• PBS
• NPR
• CNN
• Fox
• MSNBC
• Associated Press
• New York Times
• Washington Examiner
• Wall Street Journal
• USA Today
Update 2024-18-12 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): • Announcements must be made by officials speaking on behalf of the government
Personal tweets/statements not made in an official government capacity will not count
Update 2025-02-21 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Elimination Resolution: If DOGE announces that its goal is the elimination of an agency, it resolves YES, even if some of the agency's functions are taken up by another agency.
Official Announcement Requirement: Only announcements made by officials speaking on behalf of the government count.
@JeffBerman Is incorporating it into a different agency or department considered "eliminate"?
What if it gets fully absorbed? is there a gray line here? where is it? or does "eliminate" only mean in cases where the function doesn't exist anymore
@FergusArgyll What we're tracking here is which agencies DOGE announces it seeks to privatize or eliminate. If the goal is the elimination of that agency, that resolves YES. Whether or not some of its work is taken up by another agency does not play a part in the resolution.
Perhaps, due to the legal issues (ahem) of unilaterally eliminating entire agencies, DOGE will simply gut them from the inside leaving the agency itself technically active (maybe with a single digit number of employees). Then congress can pass laws to dissolve said agencies or assign new requirements to beef them up again.
@traders Another interesting DOGE market:
https://manifold.markets/JeffBerman/will-there-be-an-attempted-physical
@squirrelfish Good question. If they’re speaking on behalf of the government, that counts. Random personal tweets do not.