“In fact, if you listened to the Obama White House, it was clear its denizens were also quite taken with the leadership of people like Eric Schmidt. In his 2013 State of the Union address, Obama had talked about needing “not bigger, but ‘smarter’ government” ; the same year Tunney posted her demands, the White House launched the US Digital Service, the predecessor to DOGE, which was headed up by a former Google engineer…”