Circulated heavily in the past month, but was without good evidence of existence before that. So I was highly doubtful, till I went and found it (fuller, 4 minutes):
False positives: Obama also created the US Digital Service in 2014 (now US DOGE Service, which "includes" DOGE itself), but not as an efficiency operation. And he said "Nobody messes with Joe" in the 2009-02-24 Joint Address, about a jobs "recovery plan":
With a plan of this scale comes enormous responsibility to get it right. That is why I've asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort--because nobody messes with Joe.
Circulated heavily in the past month, but was without good evidence of existence before that. So I was highly doubtful, till I went and found it (fuller, 4 minutes):
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/06/13/video-president-obama-and-vice-president-biden-launch-campaign-cut-waste
Just wow.
False positives: Obama also created the US Digital Service in 2014 (now US DOGE Service, which "includes" DOGE itself), but not as an efficiency operation. And he said "Nobody messes with Joe" in the 2009-02-24 Joint Address, about a jobs "recovery plan":