Theodore Roosevelt started a version of DOGE too, but it failed to achieve much after Congress rejected its recommendations.

Theodore Roosevelt. TO THE incurious ... passed the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (creating the FDA), eliminated the “spoils system” in federal hiring, broke up railroad monopolies, ...

On June 3, 1905, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt ... the Hepburn Act, which gave the Interstate Commerce Committee power over railroad rates, and two pieces of legislation — the Meat ...

Sugar substitutes have been around for more than a century, but most were discovered by mistake. Here's the finger-licking ...

Theodore Roosevelt signed a law granting future U.S. Presidents the power to designate or expand National Monuments on existing federal land. Known as the Antiquities Act, the bill was introduced ...

In 1906, the Pure Food and Drug Act was established and required that drugs meet standards for strength and purity but not for safety. The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the law that ...

2 See, Section 409(c)(3)(A) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). 3 See, 25 FR 9759, October 12, 1960. 4 See, 34 FR 7446, May 8, 1969.

Announced earlier today, the FDA is "revoking the authorization for the use of FD&C Red No. 3 as a matter of law, based on the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act)." ...

The Food and Drug Administration is banning the dye in food items, the move coming more than three decades after it was barred in cosmetics.