# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/agencies-file.json --- - id: ACHP name: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation slug: achp page_slug: independent#arts short_name: ACHP events: - date: 2025-04-17 type: official event: >- DOGE contacts the leadership of ACHP requesting a meeting for the following week with a new DOGE team that will be assigned to the agency. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: ACHP id: 6sYzWZML - date: 2025-04-23 type: sighting event: >- After an initial video call, DOGE representatives arrive at the agency offices of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: ACHP id: 7BTc0SXi - name: AmeriCorps id: AmeriCorps short_name: AmeriCorps slug: americorps page_slug: independent#service events: - date: 2025-04-16 type: disruption event: >- Agency staff at AmeriCorps are placed on immediate administrative leave and banned from accessing agency systems. project: - personnel - elimination source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/16/americorps-cuts-doge-trump/ agency: AmeriCorps id: mdSXmD4G - date: 2025-04-25 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff within AmeriCorps start terminating roughly $400 million in grants (roughly 41% of the total grant funding) to 1,031 organizations across America. The reason given is that the grant "no longer effectuates agency priorities." notable: true project: - spending source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/25/americorps-grant-cuts-doge/ agency: AmeriCorps id: 3RVlVWPN - date: 2025-07-22 type: disruption event: >- After losing its grant on May 28, Oregon's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) is forced to end many of its programs that served rural communities in the state. project: spending source: https://dailyyonder.com/doge-cuts-debilitate-rural-oregons-americorps-program/2025/07/22/ agency: AmeriCorps id: 6Rwt1Xfe - name: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms id: ATF slug: atf parent_id: DOJ page_slug: justice short_name: ATF events: - date: 2025-06-27 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff are reportedly detailed to work with the ATF General Counsel on revising or eliminating over 50 regulations by July 4th. This would likely make it easier to purchase firearms. They miss this deadline. project: deregulation source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/27/atf-doge-regulations-cuts-guns/ agency: ATF id: 1RnL7eiV - name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention id: CDC slug: cdc short_name: CDC parent_id: HHS page_slug: health doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-28 event: >- CDC managers receive a directive from OPM to classify probationary hires as "mission critical", working on "strategic priorities" or neither. When one of the CDC's ten centres responded that all their staff were "mission critical", higher-ups told set explicit target percentages for each category. type: action project: personnel source: >- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/10/how-doge-is-driving-americas-public-health-guardians-mad agency: CDC id: RopNFssL - date: 2025-02-06 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff reportedly arrive at CDC HQ in Atlanta to request access to health payment systems used at the agency. project: spending source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/05/doge-health-agencies-labor/ agency: CDC id: jC9DATQu - date: 2025-02-15 type: disruption event: >- Roughly 750 probationary workers at the CDC receive termination notices sent directly from OPM, in possible violation of federal laws governing the civil service. source: >- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/10/how-doge-is-driving-americas-public-health-guardians-mad project: personnel agency: CDC id: Ucq6WnMM - date: 2025-02-17 type: sighting event: >- A senior manager at CDC reports coming back from a meeting to find two men in Tesla shirts leaving her office who said they "fixed" her computer. source: >- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/10/how-doge-is-driving-americas-public-health-guardians-mad agency: CDC id: 8qLVbYJB - date: 2025-02-19 type: sighting event: >- Despite earlier reports of DOGE at the agency, staff at the CIO office at the CDC claim to not have been contacted by DOGE yet. It's unclear if this is a lie or they have been sidestepped. source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ agency: CDC id: 5aycrTMg - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- After a federal judge overturns the mass firing of probationary workers, only 180 workers (out of 750) return to work at the CDC. source: >- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/10/how-doge-is-driving-americas-public-health-guardians-mad project: personnel agency: CDC id: 9TW4PD58 - date: 2025-03-25 type: disruption event: >- CDC claws back $11.4 billion in funds allocated to various state and community health departments for responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. project: spending source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006 agency: CDC id: ChWumxau - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- HHS terminates a large number of staff at CDC in the name of cost savings and realignment, with the HHS director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly wanting to focus only on infectious diseases source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-federal-layoffs-health-food.html project: - personnel agency: CDC id: AeHQsaCe - date: 2025-04-08 type: disruption event: >- Terminated employees at the CDC report enduring months of DOGE representatives walking around the building looking for nominal work violations (like going to the bathroom but leaving their secure PIV card on their desk) as a pretext to immediately fire people for "security violations." notable: true source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/hhs-mass-firings project: personnel fuzz: this might be rumors though agency: CDC id: 1drAwyyf - date: 2025-05-14 type: disruption event: >- After rescinding 300 past layoffs, the head of human resources at CDC emails Rachel Riley to share that the plan going forward will be to fire one person for every singer person who returns to the agency. source: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/CDC-cut-one-employee-each-it-recalling-layoffs/405336/ project: personnel named: - Rachel Riley agency: CDC id: 50bUuY8i - date: 2025-10-14 type: disruption event: >- Another round of terminations results in the CDC having lost a quarter of its staff – around 3000 people – since the beginning of the Trump administration. The latest firings targeted the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the National Center for Health Statistics as well as other supporting functions within the agency like human resources, building security and the library. notable: true agency: CDC source: https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-terminations-workforce-shutdown-rifs/ project: - personnel - elimination id: 5K0fPi2j - date: 2025-10-(25)~ type: disruption event: >- Sam Beyda contacts the Peaceable Primate Sanctuary to ask how many of the approximately 200 macaques it can adopt immediately from the CDC's primate research operations and whether it would be able to adopt all of them by the end of the year. named: - Sam Beyda project: elimination source: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-cdc-end-all-monkey-research agency: CDC id: 2dGQuAlJ - date: 2025-11-(07)~ type: disruption event: >- In a new capacity as Deputy Chief of Staff, Sam Beyda tells scientists at the CDC that it is time to wind down its primate research division. Despite the fact that CDC has an Acting Director, he presents himself as conveying the direct wished of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. here. named: - Sam Beyda project: elimination source: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-cdc-end-all-monkey-research agency: CDC id: 4Zihsc2D - date: 2025-11-19 type: official event: >- The Department of Health and Human Services proposes 16 initiatives for the CDC to focus on as part of a restructuring and change in direction for the agency. This includes de-emphasizing Hepatitis B vaccination in favor of increased screening. Newly appointed deputy chief of staff Sam Beyda is in charge of 5 out of the 16 initiatives, despite only having graduated from college in 2023 and a lack of public health or leadership experience. notable: true project: elimination named: - Sam Beyda source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/hhs-proposes-new-cdc-programs-including-hepatitis-b-screening agency: CDC id: KKo42kD6 - date: 2025-12-01 type: disruption event: >- After a Danish anti-vaccine researcher applied for a grant to do a controlled study about the Hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau, the request was routed directly from the CDC Director's office to the Grants office for funding, bypassing the concerns of agency scientists who found the experimental design to be poorly-constructed and immoral. Instead of listing scientists as approvers for the grant, the application only listed as reviewers Chief of Staff Sam Beyda and Stuart Burns, an anti-vaccine advocate working in the CDC Director's office. named: - Sam Beyda source: >- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/new-documents-vaccine-study-cdc-approval-1235518406/ agency: CDC id: 2JdlqGkv - name: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services id: CMS short_name: CMS page_slug: health slug: cms parent_id: HHS doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-31 type: access event: >- Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims project: spending named: - Luke Farritor system: HIGLAS source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 6aacfCAk - date: 2025-02-03 type: access event: >- Multiple DOGE staff (Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Conor Fennessy and Jeremy Lewin) at CMS are granted read-only access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts. notable: true project: spending system: CALM named: - Luke Farritor - Rachel Riley - Conor Fennessy - Jeremy Lewin case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf agency: CMS id: 2VmzIcAJ - date: 2025-02-05 type: report event: >- The WSJ reports that DOGE staff arrive at CMS HQ and are reportedly granted access to the CALM system, but sources at CMS deny they have access to HIGLAS. project: spending fuzz: >- DOGE staff first granted access to CALM on 2/3; Luke Farritor has HIGLAS access on 1/31, other staff on 3/5 source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-doge-medicare-medicaid-fraud-e697b162 agency: CMS id: mKix9GPm - date: 2025-02-05 type: official event: >- CMS issues a press release stating that two agency veterans have been assigned to work closely with DOGE. source: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-statement-collaboration-doge agency: CMS id: HRb5mWmM - date: 2025-02-14 type: action event: Rachel Riley conducts a "Planning Touch Base" meeting with senior leadership at CMS. named: - Rachel Riley source: >- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/key-musk-doge-adviser-meets-leaders-medicare-agency/story?id=118843035 agency: CMS id: 5cr9YjJj - date: 2025-02-24 type: access event: >- Amy Gleason is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts. project: spending named: - Amy Gleason system: CALM source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 4wVLWDce - date: 2025-03-03 type: access event: >- Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts. project: spending named: - Jeremy Lewin system: CALM source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 4PyOz3TV - date: 2025-03-05 type: access event: >- Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures. project: spending named: - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Aram Moghaddassi system: HIGLAS source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 3MdiqW9w - date: 2025-03-05 type: access event: >- Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims. named: - Luke Farritor system: IDR source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 4C16pcax - date: 2025-03-05 type: access event: >- A second wave of DOGE members detailed to HHS (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts notable: true project: spending named: - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Aram Moghaddassi system: CALM source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 6R6QCxBv - date: 2025-03-05 type: access event: >- Edward Coristine, Zach Terrell, Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are also granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims. named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Marko Elez system: IDR source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: CMS id: 3vG5MUdU - date: 2025-03-29 type: legal source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 event: >- In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system. named: - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Luke Farritor - Amy Gleason linked: - Aram Moghaddassi - Zach Terrell - Jeremy Lewin agency: CMS id: iDxrzxfp - date: 2025-04-07 type: disruption event: >- Newly-appointed director of CMS, Dr. Mehmet Oz, suggests replacing front-line healthcare workers with AI avatars for cost savings. project: modernization agency: CMS source: https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/ id: 7o8RZJ6w - date: 2025-06-06 type: report event: >- Several senior staff write a memo to agency leadership reporting that California, Washington and Illinois had cooperated with EO 14243 requesting info on their state's Medicaid programs. They strenously object to a plan to share this data with DHS, noting that it would violate the privacy act and other laws as well as agency practices, and that it could be used to identify and target immigrant communities in those states. notable: true project: immigration source: https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22 agency: CMS id: 5Mk65UMZ - name: Central Intelligence Agency id: CIA short_name: CIA slug: cia page_slug: none events: - date: 2025-03-31 type: interagency event: Elon Musk visits the CIA at the invitation of its director, John Ratcliffe. interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Elon Musk source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/31/elon-musk-cia-doge/ agency: CIA id: EvqS5mPP - name: Commerce Department id: Commerce short_name: Commerce slug: commerce page_slug: self blurb: | DOGE made an early foray into the agency with a visit to the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but their presence at Commerce has seemed relatively muted in comparison to other agencies. However, DOGE has had a staunch ally in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and reseachers are getting increasingly alarmed about DOGE interfering with the operations of the Census. The Commerce Department contains the following important subagencies that have been affected by DOGE: - **The Census Department** conducts the national census every 10 years (important for redistricting) as well as other important surveys of the American public. - **National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST)** sets standards for technical products in industry (and references for units of measure). It also defines the cybersecurity requirements for software used in the federal government. - **National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)** is most prominently known for its role in weather forecasting and climate modeling. It also charts the oceans and manages fisheries around the US. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-05 type: sighting event: DOGE staff are seen entering the headquarters of the Department of Commerce. source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/02/doge-enters-noaa-accesses-it-systems-and-removes-top-hr-official/402776/ agency: Commerce id: 7kf2GFmh - date: 2025-03-28 type: sighting event: >- Michael Grimes conducts DOGE-style interviews with each member of the staff in the Chips Program Office. This group administers grants following the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (signed by Biden) to encourage semiconductor manufacturing in the US. project: personnel named: - Michael Grimes source: https://www.ft.com/content/21ad2223-2a7f-44d4-8004-38956597bb9d agency: Commerce id: dqDnwCxi - name: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund short_name: CDFI Fund id: CDFIF slug: cdfif page_slug: independent#eo2 events: [] - name: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau id: CFPB short_name: CFPB page_slug: self slug: cfpb blurb: >- After several weeks of quiet, the DOGE wrecking crew descended on the CFPB on a Thursday in early February. By Friday, they had been granted admin access to multiple systems with the support of acting director Russell Vought and had deleted the homepage for the website. By Monday, the entire workforce of the agency had been place on administrative leave and blocked from accessing the building. Despite some still-lingering concerns about Musk gaining access to proprietary financial data for his competitors, DOGE's main focus at the agency was making an example of it, with many of the crew who had demolished USAID taking part in this effort. Their attempt at forcing mass layoffs on February 14 was stopped at only the last minute by a judge's temporary restraining order, and DOGE assisted with another reduction-in-force (RIF) for 80% of the agency on April 17th, only for it to be overturned by the same judge. Today, the CFPB is still alive, but in a precarious limbo that might make months or year to resolve. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-01 type: disruption event: >- Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB. The deputy director of the CFPB, Zixta Martinez, assumes the role of acting director. project: - elimination - deregulation source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5254186/cfpb-consumer-financial-protection-cfpb-trump-chopra agency: CFPB id: 27lMkSeZ - date: 2025-02-03 type: official event: >- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is named the acting director of the CFPB and orders staff to immediately halt all work pending review. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285356/treasury-secretary-bessent-acting-cfpb-director project: - personnel - elimination agency: CFPB id: ZkrnYESM - date: 2025-02-06 type: onboard event: >- A DOGE team consisting of Luke Farritor, Jeremy Lewin, Nikhil Rajpal, Gavin Kliger and Chris Young enters the CFPB headquarters and is given equipment and onboarded with a quick session on privacy policies in force at the CFPB. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf named: - Luke Farritor - Jeremy Lewin - Nikhil Rajpal - Gavin Kliger - Chris Young agency: CFPB id: R9JtW4eJ - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption event: Elon Musk posts a tweet "CFPB RIP" with a tombstone emoji named: - Elon Musk project: - elimination - deregulation source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/musks-doge-descends-on-consumer-financial-protection-bureau agency: CFPB id: fHLJXQSP - date: 2025-02-07 type: official event: >- OMB director Russell Vought is named the new acting head of the CFPB. The CFPB Chief Legal Counsel is also replaced by Mark Paoletta, a close associate of Russell Vought. source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/business/cfpb-doge-vought-x/index.html named: - Russell Vought agency: CFPB id: 1pcExqWx - date: 2025-02-07 type: action event: >- DOGE staff are granted global admin access to various CFPB systems without completing all the mandated training or agreeing to CFPB's acceptable use policy for IT systems. This includes a system that allows them to grant or revoke access to other IT systems at the CFPB. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.38.5.pdf project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: SG9PVcaS - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption event: >- The CFPB homepage is deleted and returns a HTTP 404 Not Found error (the rest of the site remains online). The CFPB social media account on X is also deleted. These actions are likely taken by Gavin Kliger, who was granted admin access to the website. fuzz: Gavin Kliger access named in later court documents named: - Gavin Kliger source: >- https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2025/02/09/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-adds-error-message-to-home-page/ agency: CFPB id: 2fUJZPvu - date: 2025-02-10 type: disruption event: >- In an email sent to all staff, Russell Vought orders the CFPB's headquarters to be indefinitely closed. He also orders: "Please do not perform any work tasks. If there are any urgent matters, please alert me through Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer, to get approval in writing before performing any work task. Otherwise, employees should stand down from performing any work task." notable: true project: - elimination - deregulation named: - Russell Vought source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 18lnDiaG - date: 2025-02-11 type: disruption event: Approximately 85 probationary employees at the CFPB are fired without cause. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf project: personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 5y3w31WF - date: 2025-02-11 type: disruption event: >- CFPB Contracting Officers (COs) are ordered to terminate the vast majority of CFPB's contracts over the weekend (“We need to get these Termination Notifications out ASAP.”) This includes "Enforcement (102 contracts), Supervision (16 contracts), External Affairs (3 contracts), Consumer Response (20 contracts), Office of Director (33 contracts), and Legal Division (all except 2 contracts)." source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 project: - spending - elimination agency: CFPB id: Ku4aQCfT - date: 2025-02-12 type: disruption event: >- Adam Martinez, CFPB COO, includes DOGE representatives Jordan Wick and Chris Young in emails hiring OPM for consulting on Reduction-in-Force (RIF) planning for the CFPB. CFPB agrees to pay OPM $171,925 for these services. named: - Jordan Wick - Chris Young project: - personnel - elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: HnJrpqPY - date: 2025-02-13 type: disruption event: >- The CFPB RIF team, including Adam Martinez meets with Jordan Wick, Jeremy Lewin, and OPM officials on a video call. Jeremy Lewin and Jordan Wick talk off screen with Acting Director Russell Vought, and Wick tells the group that they want formal RIF notices to go out no later than February 14. The team receives a template from OPM for firing 1200 employees "at night on the 13th." source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 named: - Jordan Wick - Jeremy Lewin - Russell Vought project: - personnel - elimination - deregulation agency: CFPB id: DbgzC9iA - date: 2025-02-13 type: disruption event: >- CFPB leadership authorizes the creation of an email account for the public to snitch on if CFPB staff are engaged in any enforcement or supervision actions in violation of the stop-work order. They also create an account on X for this service. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 2DACs2Yb - date: 2025-02-14 type: disruption event: The CFPB's videos are removed from its YouTube channel. project: elimination source: https://www.theverge.com/news/613567/trump-youtube-videos-cfpb agency: CFPB id: jvA4LYFX - date: 2025-02-14 type: legal event: >- The judge, Amy Berman-Jackson grants a temporary restraining order against CFPB leadership until a hearing for a preliminary injunction to prevent them from shuttering the agency by eliminating staff and canceling all contracts. DOGE and CFPB leadership had been racing to eliminate 1175 positions before the restraining order was announced. notable: true case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 project: - personnel - deregulation source: https://www.bankingdive.com/news/cfpb-1175-layoffs-race-court-order-martinez-pfaff/742050/ agency: CFPB id: 2XHMUAB3 - date: 2025-02-18 type: disruption event: >- An employee requests to repair the CFPB homepage that was purposefully deleted by DOGE. That action is refused by order of Russell Vought. Other work is allowed for digital teams. named: - Russell Vought source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.38.6.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: ifPsztJp - date: 2025-02-20 type: disruption event: >- At an internal planning meeting for the temporarily paused Reduction In Force, CFPB COO Adam Martinez confirms the White House plan was to completely end the CFPB within 30 days. The plan was to reduce the CFPB to "five guys and a phone," ie to the minimum number of positions that were mandated by the text of Dodd-Frank (the bill that created the CFPB). Staff were informed there was no need to abide by federal data retention regulations because there would be nothing left of the agency to maintain. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf project: - elimination - deregulation case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 7N8VIAaB - date: 2025-02-20 type: disruption event: >- Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB named: - Jordan Wick - Russell Vought project: - spending source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 3K2zYRLK - date: 2025-03-02 type: official event: >- The night before the hearing for a preliminary injunction in _NTEU v. Vought_, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sends out an email to all staff telling them that they should have known all along that the stop work order wasn't meant to cover statutorily mandated work. This seems like a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. In her later ruling, Judge Amy Berman Jackson describes this move as "[insulting] the reader's intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working." source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 6GZYJl9P - date: 2025-03-03 type: legal event: >- In a hearing for a preliminary injunction, Judge Amy Berman Jackson expresses fears that CFPB will be "choked out of its very existence" while the litigation progresses. Concerned with misleading answers from the admininistration's lawyers, she orders a evidentiary hearing in a week and continues the restraining order against layoffs. notable: true project: - elimination - deregulation case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: >- https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/choked-out-of-its-very-existence-judge-fears-trump-will-dismantle-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-completely-before-she-can-stop-him/ agency: CFPB id: 6rKuMudb - date: 2025-03-04 type: offboard event: >- Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all of his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 named: - Luke Farritor agency: CFPB id: TwWSFLuZ - date: 2025-03-04 type: onboard event: >- Jordan Wick is converted from a detailee to a full employee of the CFPB. This is in accordance with a DOGE strategy to avoid disclosure in _CREW v. DOGE_ by moving DOGE staff into other agencies. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 named: - Jordan Wick agency: CFPB id: 3adk09oY - date: 2025-03-21 type: offboard event: >- Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, reportedly because his detail has ended. In a later court filing, CFPB reveals that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 named: - Nikhil Rajpal agency: CFPB id: 4q7ANp6B - date: 2025-03-28 type: legal event: >- In a sweeping ruling, judge Amy Berman Jackson grants a preliminary injunction for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) against Russell Vought, the acting CFPB director. In her ruling, she declares that it is plain that the administration intended to destroy the agency and she found significant parts of its testimony unreliable. In her injunction, she orders the admininistration must refrain from any firing any employee of the CFPB, restore any contracts that were in place before February 11th, reinstate all probationary employees that were fired, ensure that no agency data is deleted and rescind the stop-work order. It is immediately appealed by the administration. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 project: - elimination - personnel agency: CFPB id: 26OEuzWQ - date: 2025-04-10 type: official event: >- Gavin Kliger receives a warning from the CFPB Ethics Office that his stock holdings present serious concerns about possible conflicts of interest. He is required to divest himself of prohibited holdings by May 8th and excuse himself from decisions that might affect his holdings immediately. named: - Gavin Kliger agency: CFPB source: >- https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-gavin-kliger-doge-conflict-of-interest-consumer-financial-protection-bureau id: nAPDT6yN - date: 2025-04-11 type: legal event: >- A three-judge appeal panel for the DC Circuit issues a ruling on the appeal for Judge Amy Berman Jackson's preliminary injunction in _NTEU v. Vought_. The appeals court stays a measure that prevent CFPB leadership from enforcing work stoppages for non-statutory work. It also allows CFPB leadership to perform a reduction-in-force, provided that they conduct a "particularized assessment" for the process. source: >- https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/880/2025/04/NTEU-v.-CFPB-April-11.pdf project: - personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 55f6Ur4o - date: 2025-04-12 type: interagency event: >- CFPB leadership under Russell Vought uses the opening granted by the appeals court to attempt another massive RIF. Emailing from his USAID email account, Jeremy Lewin kicks off the process by providing Gavin Kliger and Adam Martinez with a letter to use for RIFs at the CFPB. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.128.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 project: - personnel - elimination - deregulation interagency_doge_reps: CFPB: Gavin Kliger USAID: Jeremy Lewin agency: CFPB id: 3XxWRrBu - date: 2025-04-12 type: interagency event: >- Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It's unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.137.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 interagency_doge_reps: CFPB: - Gavin Kliger - Jeremy Lewin - Chris Young - Jordan Wick HHS: Zach Terrell Education: Alexandra Beynon agency: CFPB id: MXinRonY - date: 2025-04-12 type: official event: >- Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.137.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 named: - Gavin Kliger - Jeremy Lewin - Jordan Wick linked: - Luke Farritor agency: CFPB id: YpiseeEG - date: 2025-04-12 type: interagency event: >- Gavin Kliger begins working with Adam Martinez of CFPB and Jeremy Lewin at USAID on the infrastructure to automate a massive RIF at the CFPB. This includes scripts to send termination letters to each employee. project: - personnel - elimination interagency_doge_reps: CFPB: Gavin Kliger USAID: Jeremy Lewin case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.131.1.pdf agency: CFPB id: 7a5wZUiM - date: 2025-04-13 type: access event: >- In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert reports that Gavin Kliger has been granted access to Ops HC - Prod to build the RIF automation. He also asks to confirm that Gavin Kliger should have his access immediately revoked to systems that let him deactivate employee email accounts or lock them out of their laptops. case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.128.4_1.pdf named: - Gavin Kliger agency: CFPB comment: FIXME, see what those systems are id: N4uZjCyt - date: 2025-04-13 type: interagency event: >- Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB project: - elimination - personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.131.1.pdf interagency_doge_reps: USAID: Jeremy Lewin agency: CFPB id: 32sfy2H5 - date: 2025-04-13 type: access event: >- In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert informs Gavin Kliger that he will not be granted global admin access for his requests. case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.131.1.pdf named: - Gavin Kliger agency: CFPB id: YvnoXfWE - date: 2025-04-13 type: interagency event: >- Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc'ed on the message source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.137.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Ashley Boizelle - Steve Davis CFPB: - Gavin Kliger - Jeremy Lewin agency: CFPB id: 7dbzTENK - date: 2025-04-16 type: interagency event: >- Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request made by Adam Martinez as well as Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger to conduct an "emergency" RIF at the CFPB which would only give employees 30 days before their termination. project: - elimination - personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.131.1.pdf interagency_doge_reps: OPM: Noah Peters USAID: Jeremy Lewin CFPB: Gavin Kliger agency: CFPB id: aaJegvbd - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption event: >- CFPB conducts a massive Reduction-in-Force, eliminating 1483 positions and retaining only 207 people to perform its duties. This is larger than the planned RIF in February that was blocked by Judge Amy Berman-Jackson. It is immediately appealed. project: - personnel - elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.109.0_4.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: fZotJY5V - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption event: >- According to sworn testimony by Alex Doe, Gavin Kliger forces the entire CFPB team to work for 36 hours straight and subjects them to frequent verbal abuse in an attempt to eliminate most of the staff at the agency in mass layoffs. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.111.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 named: - Gavin Kliger agency: CFPB id: dHm7PvDq - date: 2025-04-18 type: legal event: >- Judge Amy Berman Jackson immediately blocks the RIF for CFPB employees. She expressed skepticism that CFPB leadership a particularized assessment and suggests that they seemed to be "thumbing their nose" at her and the appeals court. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368206/cfpb-layoffs-rif case_no: 1:25-cv-00381 agency: CFPB id: 3iqrt0hZ - date: 2025-05-01 type: legal event: >- The D.C. Circuit appeals panel modifies its initial stay of the preliminary injunction that had allowed RIFs after a particularized assessment. In light of the recent attempted RIF, they decide to disallow any RIFs while the appeal of the injunction is being considered. CFPB staff remain at work, but lacking direction from leadership and still barred from many work actions. source: >- https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2025/05/d-c-circuit-panel-modifies-its-partial-stay-bars-cfpb-mass-layoffs/ agency: CFPB id: gHQolQlg - date: 2025-05-08 type: offboard named: - Gavin Kliger event: >- Gavin Kliger leaves the CFPB, officially because his detail had ended but his departure date is also the day he would be in violation of ethics rules for having not sold stock holdings prohibited to CFBP staff. source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/doge-employee-leaves-cfpb-after-leading-trumps-mass-firing-plan project: impunity agency: CFPB id: 5o5MwpMZ - date: 2025-05-13 type: disruption event: >- The CFPB, still under the acting leadership of Russell Vought, withdraws a rule proposed in December that would limit the ability of data brokers to sell sensitive information by placing them under the oversight of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). project: deregulation source: https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/ named: - Russell Vought agency: CFPB id: 7cif37rv - date: 2025-07-04 type: disruption event: >- Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill into law. Among other regressive measures, it slashes the cap on the that the CFPB can pull from by 46% to a maximum of 6.5% of the Federal Reserve operating budget. project: elimination source: >- https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/trumps-big-bill-slashes-consumer-watchdog-cfpbs-budget-nearly-in-half-070825.html agency: CFPB id: 2CURMRwe - date: 2025-07-14 type: report event: >- Although the building is still somewhat in use and staff are being paid, CFPB staff report that the agency has been mostly inoperable for six months and unable to perform its mission to protect the public. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/employees-at-the-nations-consumer-financial-watchdog-say-its-become-toothless-under-trump/ar-AA1IDEjb project: - elimination agency: CFPB id: 5k3dMxFA - name: Census Bureau id: Census short_name: Census slug: census page_slug: commerce parent_id: Commerce events: - date: 2025-05-XX type: disruption event: >- An internal survey reveals that over a fifth of Census Bureau leadership roles are vacant in the wake of DOGE's efforts to reduce federal staffing. project: personnel source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409331/doge-data-census-bureau agency: Census id: 6ywSOwFF - date: 2025-06-04 type: disruption event: >- Field representatives for the Census surveys share that the public is growing increasingly distrustful of participating in government surveys due to concerns that their data might be used against them by DOGE. This is especially true for minority and vulnerable populations, increasing the real risk of skewed statistics. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data agency: Census id: HSNBGnh4 - name: Consumer Product Safety Commission id: CPSC slug: cpsc page_slug: independent#regs short_name: CPSC events: - date: 2025-05-08 type: sighting event: Unnamed DOGE members are reportedly refused entry to the CPSC by its commissioners. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/three-us-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-have-been-fired-by-trump-what-to-know/ar-AA1EuFVM agency: CPSC id: gPWQ1A2y - date: 2025-05-08 type: disruption project: impunity event: >- Trump abruptly fires three Democratic members of the board of the CPSC, eliminating quorum for the board and rendering the agency leadership inert. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/three-us-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-have-been-fired-by-trump-what-to-know/ar-AA1EuFVM agency: CPSC id: 4oxeRmz2 - date: 2025-05-09 type: sighting event: >- With the board now fired, DOGE staff are granted access to the Consumer Product Safety Commission headquarters and onboarded into the agency. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/three-us-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-have-been-fired-by-trump-what-to-know/ar-AA1EuFVM agency: CPSC id: 4ZxhrZFr - name: Corporation for Public Broadcasting id: CPB slug: cpb short_name: CPB page_slug: independent#arts events: - date: 2025-04-28 type: disruption event: >- Three members of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receive an email from Trent Morse at the White House informing them that they have been fired. This renders the board inert without quorum. project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279991/gov.uscourts.dcd.279991.2.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01305 agency: CPB id: 607kaJsp named: - Trent Morse - date: 2025-04-29 type: interagency event: >- Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc's several other members of DOGE source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279991/gov.uscourts.dcd.279991.12.1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01305 interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox - Jonathan Mendelson DOGE: - Justin Aimonetti agency: CPB id: 4p1Gdjkg - date: 2025-04-29 type: legal event: >- Citing as evidence the harm inflicted by DOGE against the USIP, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives a temporary restraining order from a judge until its case can be heard in May. source: https://radioink.com/2025/04/29/federal-court-halts-trump-move-to-fire-three-cpb-directors/ agency: CPB id: 22DlvADs - date: 2025-05-01 type: official event: >- Trump issues an executive order commanding that Corporation for Public Broadcasting should cease any financial support for PBS and NPR, despite CPB being an independent agency. notable: true project: - spending source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/ agency: CPB id: 6mAF9PCM - date: 2025-08-01 type: disruption agency: CPB event: >- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting issues a press release announcing that it has commenced an orderly wind-down due to the elimination of funding from both the recissions package as well as the budget for next year. A majority of staff will be let go on the September 30, 2026 with a small team retained for final closedown in January 2026. This is frankly a heartbreaking outcome for an agency that has served America for almost 60 years. notable: true project: - elimination - personnel source: >- https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding id: 2Cj197Lv - date: 2026-01-05 type: disruption event: >- The board of directors votes to formally dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ending its 58 year history of providing funding for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations. This was the inevitable outcome after Congress codified the elimination of funding for the agency. project: - elimination - personnel source: >- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-trump-maduro_n_695bb603e4b0d6beb5fd9469/liveblog_695c153ce4b0d6beb5fe025f agency: CPB id: 3S3bejKu - name: Customs and Border Patrol id: CBP short_name: CBP slug: cbp parent_id: DHS page_slug: homeland-security doge_base: true events: [] - name: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency id: CISA short_name: CISA slug: cisa parent_id: DHS page_slug: homeland-security doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-19 type: access event: >- Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt are reportedly given elevated access to CISA systems, including documents and staff emails. notable: true project: impunity named: - Edward Coristine - Kyle Schutt source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/ agency: CISA id: WQKuTEAj - date: 2025-03-11 type: disruption event: >- DOGE has fired more than a hundred employees at CISA, including many "red team" staffers who simulate real-world attacks as well as the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT). project: personnel source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/ agency: CISA id: 2ulCnCr8 - date: 2025-05-12 type: disruption event: >- CISA announces that it will cease posting many cybersecurity alerts on its website and instead only send them to email or X. After a public outcry, it reverses this decision. source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/cisa-planned-to-kill-gov-alerts-then-reversed-course-a-28391 agency: CISA id: 1tBAJ7d7 - date: 2026-03-10 type: disruption event: >- In the wake of DOGE's cuts last year in CISA, cybersecurity individuals in private industry express alarm at the lack of outreach and communication from the agency compared to last year, especially since the war with Iran will likely result in cyberattacks. notable: true source: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/doge-government-spending-cuts-iran-war project: spending agency: CISA id: 11ao1qkC - name: Department of Agriculture id: USDA short_name: USDA slug: usda page_slug: agriculture doge_base: true blurb: >- According to Secretary Brooke Collins speaking on February 14th, DOGE has been working within the agency since the beginning of February. It's clear why DOGE would be active within USDA - the agency not only distributes a large number of grants and is a significant regulatory entity. But there has been limited visibility into what DOGE has actually been doing there. events: - date: 2025-02-14 type: sighting event: >- In a speech, the Secretary of Agriculture says DOGE has been at the agency for "a few weeks" already. source: >- https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/02/14/secretary-rollins-delivers-opening-remarks-usda-headquarters agency: USDA id: hR7tzCWX - date: 2025-02-19 type: action event: >- "Does the following blurb encapsulate what Gavin is looking for?" is what a USDA policy lead writes to the agency's chief financial officer about proposed agency-wide guidance to find and report grants that related to climate change. She then emailed to Gavin for his direct approval. notable: true project: spending named: - Gavin Kliger source: >- https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/doge-gavin-kliger-us-department-of-agriculture-climate-policy agency: USDA id: 372mBQKa - date: 2025-02-20 type: official event: >- In emails with USDA staff to identify climate-related terms to look for and cancel in grants, Gavin Kliger also alludes to DOGE developing LLM models that would analyze grant descriptions in response to a USDA staffer suggestion to use AI more. project: - modernization - spending case_no: 2:25-cv-02152 named: - Gavin Kliger - Michael Cole source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.scd.301710/gov.uscourts.scd.301710.67.2.pdf agency: USDA id: 54bW5YhN - date: 2025-02-21 type: official event: >- USDA Secretary Rollins posts a photo of a grant-cancellation session on the @DOGE_USDA account. None of the participants are identified, but it looks like Gavin Kliger is in the picture. source: https://xcancel.com/SecRollins/status/1892777526704885880#m project: spending agency: USDA linked: - Gavin Kliger id: Rvoj6n6y - date: 2025-02-25 type: oversight event: >- The Chief Human Capital Office of the Department of Agriculture testifies to Congress that OPM ordered the firing of all probationary federal employees at the agency. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.188.1.pdf case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 project: personnel agency: USDA id: UbNB5uwF - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- Federal staff at the USDA are sent an email offering them another chance to do a deferred resignation if they enroll within the next week or so from this date. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/federal-layoff-buyout-offers.html project: personnel agency: USDA id: UWEbC7Qn - date: 2025-04-XX type: access event: >- Jordan Wick is granted high-level access to the National Payment Service (NPS) system, which would allow him to see and alter payments or even cancel loans to farmers and other agricultural producers. Concerningly, his activities are not logged or recorded. notable: true source: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5455779/doge-usda-farmers-data project: - spending - impunity agency: USDA named: - Jordan Wick id: 6oB6XqHK - date: 2025-04-10 type: directory event: >- In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time. source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998790-usda-records-concerning-doge-teams-at-the-agency/ named: - Michael Cole - Daniel Abrahamson - Jeremy Lichtman - Timothy Ronan - Samuel Berry - Jordan Wick - Gavin Kliger agency: USDA id: 2aFyGowc - date: 2025-04-29 type: disruption event: >- A letter is sent to all USDA staff informing them that DOGE staffers would be reviewing all farm loans above $500,000 as well as loans of any size to "formal entities," which could mean everything from small farms to large corporations. Loans are already reviewed by highly qualified and experienced loan officers at the USDA. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5455779/doge-usda-farmers-data project: spending agency: USDA id: 3EiAcl86 - date: 2025-05-05 type: disruption event: >- USDA reports to Congress that 15,000 of its employees (15% of its workforce) have taken one of the two deferred resignation programs source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-than-15000-usda-employees-have-taken-trump-financial-incentive-leave-2025-05-04/ project: personnel agency: USDA id: 1QPIZzzA - date: 2025-05-06 type: official event: >- The Department of Agriculture sends a letter to the state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program citing EO 14243 which grants DOGE unfettered access to federal and state data and demanding they turn over data on recipients dating back to 2020-01-01 or face consequences. notable: true source: https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/data-sharing-guidance project: immigration agency: USDA id: 7AiK0YC5 - date: 2025-05-(25)~ type: disruption event: >- Over 200 loan recipients have their birth date voided and their accounts closed in the National Payment Service (NPS) system. This action was likely taken by Jordan Wick in response to discovering that some number of loan recipients had "1900" as their birth years (DOGE presumed similar circumstances at SSA indicated fraud when it was really issues with data entry). It is possible that this action was a pretext for closing other accounts. linked: - Jordan Wick project: - spending - fraud fuzz: date just reported as late May source: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5455779/doge-usda-farmers-data agency: USDA id: 7dOvCCef - date: 2025-07-10 type: report event: >- A USDA employee tells _Wired_ that they have been told to refer to the DOGE team at the agency as the USDA Digital Service instead. source: https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/ project: impunity agency: USDA id: faPqkp2u - date: 2025-07-10 type: report event: >- A USDA staffer (and USDA spokesperson later confirms) that the DOGE team in the agency is now referred to as the USDA Efficiency Team or "E Team." source: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5455779/doge-usda-farmers-data project: impunity agency: USDA id: 5rh4e1yz - date: 2025-07-17 type: disruption event: >- Despite claims by USDA leadership that they had met 99% of their hiring goals, more than 4500 (approximately 27%) firefighting jobs in the US Forest Service are unfulled, according to an internal staffing tool at the agency. This rough assessment is supported by anecdotal accounts of firefighting offices in states facing a challenging year for forest fires. notable: true source: https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season project: personnel agency: USDA id: bWh2ocEx - date: 2025-09-12 type: official event: >- In an email to all staff, USDA announces that the existing Chief Information Officer for the agency will now be moved to a new role named Chief Innovation Officer and that DOGE team member Samuel Berry will be the next CIO for the agency. project: impunity named: - Samuel Berry source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/09/agriculture-taps-doge-associate-its-tech-lead-reassigning-previous-cio/408093/ agency: USDA id: 3HMxtkeA - date: 2025-11-03 type: official event: >- Posting from her personal account on X, the USDA Secretary asserts that the agency had uncovered massive fraud in the personal data of SNAP recipients that it had collected from 27 cooperating states. In an appearance on FOX News, she claims the administration had eliminated 700,000 people from SNAP benefits and had arrested 118 people. She provided no other details to verify her claims. notable: true project: fraud source: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5595920/snap-usda-rollins-fraud agency: USDA id: 7jWtvy2W - date: 2025-11-03 type: disruption event: >- An advocacy group, Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, releases a report that notes the US Forest Service is 38% behind its usual pace in forest-thinning and other preventative measures. The group directly blames DOGE for all of its staff-reduction and cost-cutting efforts. source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/doges-forest-service-cuts-lag-on-fire-prevention-group-says/ project: personnel agency: USDA id: 2PQwCygH - date: 2025-11-14 type: disruption event: >- Months after DOGE first illegally fired probationary employees, the National Forest Service continues to endure poor morale and disruptions to service due to low staffing numbers source: >- https://valleylookout.com/2025/11/14/one-big-toxic-workplace-chilling-effect-hits-forest-service-despite-scaled-back-doge-cuts/ project: personnel agency: USDA id: 6HlVRWHn - date: 2025-12-02 type: disruption event: >- Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins threatens to withhold SNAP aid from all states currently engaged in litigation against the data sharing orders from USDA. notable: true source: https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab project: spending agency: USDA id: 5FrUnq2D - name: Department of Defense id: DOD short_name: DOD slug: defense page_slug: defense blurb: >- Due to the typical secrecy within the military, it's not always clear what DOGE has been doing within the Pentagon, especially since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed he would be hiring his own staff directly instead of accepting detailees. But DOGE has been increasingly involved in cancelling contracts, especially for weapons systems that Elon Musk doesn't find cool. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-12 type: report event: >- The Department of Defense affirm that its DOGE staff will be hired directly to the agency and will not be detailed from elsewhere in the government. source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/02/12/pentagon-doge-elon-musk/ agency: DOD id: fPWAP3fM - date: 2025-02-18 type: sighting event: An unidentified DOGE team holds a kickoff meeting with DoD staff at the Pentagon. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/doge-meets-with-pentagon-officials-to-plan-cuts-at-the-biggest-u-s-department/ar-AA1zjgby agency: DOD id: WY2JpoXp - date: 2025-02-18 type: disruption event: >- DoD agencies are ordered to provide lists of probationary employees to DOGE. Previously, defense, security and intelligence agencies have been exempted from many of the executive orders that constrained staffing or contracting. project: personnel source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/18/pentagon-layoffs-musk-doge-trump/ agency: DOD id: cwYnUCpp - date: 2025-02-20 type: official event: >- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth releases a video stating that he met with DOGE about cuts to the agency. He states that many of them are veterans. fuzz: >- The attendees aren't listed, but I am inferring this is Yinon Weiss, Mike Slagh, Jim Hickey and Patrick George linked: - Patrick George - Jim Hickey - Mike Slagh - Yinon Weiss source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defense-sec-hegseth-working-doge-cut-bs agency: DOD id: jVZWcavV - date: 2025-03-04 type: onboard event: >- A Forbes article identifies Justin Fulcher as one of the DOGE staffers in the Pentagon and questions the veracity of his entrepeneurial background. named: - Justin Fulcher source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/ agency: DOD id: 4MvgPxU8 - date: 2025-03-21 type: sighting event: >- Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon for a meeting with leadership, reportedly to discuss DOGE's involvement at the agency. named: - Elon Musk source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/20/elon-musk-pentagon-hegseth-doge-china/ agency: DOD id: PBBSfYH8 - date: 2025-03-29 type: official event: >- Federal staff at the DOD are sent an email offering them another chance for a deferred resignation if they enroll within the next week or so from the email. project: personnel source: >- https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4138965/hegseth-orders-civilian-workforce-realignment-in-dod-reopens-drp/ agency: DOD id: UGT527xz - date: 2025-04-04 type: disruption fuzz: date given as just early April event: >- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly lashed out at Yinon Weiss for seeming to overstep his authority. The altercation was apparently triggered by Justin Fulcher storming out of a meeting with Weiss because he thought that Weiss has reported him to the Pentagon's police service. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/15/hegseth-doge-justin-fulcher-yinon-weiss/ agency: DOD id: 5zI2DHfy - date: 2025-04-08 type: access event: >- DOGE staff are reportedly examining Navy's enterprise software licenses under the direction of the Departmeny of Defense CIO. project: spending source: https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/08/doge-reviewing-navy-software-enterprise/ agency: DOD id: cQi9GNaT - date: 2025-04-15 type: disruption event: >- All 14 current members of the Pentagon's pre-existing Defense Digital Service team announce a mass resignation after weeks of being sidelined and frustrated with DOGE's efforts at the agency. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930 project: impunity agency: DOD id: 963b8pxz - date: 2025-04-15 type: disruption event: >- Claiming that he knew of warrantless wiretapping from the NSA, Justin Fulcher pressured Defense Secretary Hegseth's Chief of Staff and personal legal counsel to let him run an investigation into leaking at the Pentagon. Once he was included, it was clear there was no such evidence, but it had led to several key roles being fired. Justin Fulcher denied this account when reached for comment. source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/hegseth-wiretap-inquiry-justin-fulcher project: impunity named: - Justin Fulcher agency: DOD id: 32GonHnd - date: 2025-05-27 type: disruption event: >- Pentagon staff are told they now no longer have to submit the Five Things email, but they are now tasked with a mandatory exercise to submit one thing that improves efficiency or reduces waste. project: personnel source: https://defensescoop.com/2025/05/27/dod-doge-instructions-survey-end-5-bullet-points-emails/ agency: DOD id: 6YIY3WIh - date: 2025-06-27 type: disruption event: >- The head of acquisition for the Department of Defense orders that all new contract and task orders for IT consulting, management services, and advisory and assistance support must be approved by the DOGE team embedded within the DOD before they will be granted. project: spending source: >- https://www.washingtontechnology.com/contracts/2025/06/doge-now-has-approval-authority-defense-it-consulting-contracts/406369/ agency: DOD id: CqrtsKU5 - date: 2025-07-10 type: official event: >- The Pentagon releases a memo calling for "drone dominance," including increasing manufacturing, embedding drones within armed units and assuming more risk in developing new technologies. The memo is signed by Pete Hegseth, but it was disributed with a DOGE Controlled tag and revealed the appointment of Owen West as the chief point of contact. This is a marked departure from DOGE's spending control and personnel reduction efforts at the agency. notable: true project: modernization source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/15/hegseth-doge-justin-fulcher-yinon-weiss/ named: - Owen West agency: DOD id: 2MJyYkrF - date: 2025-07-18 type: official event: >- The Air Force contacts media to report that it has cut $10.4 billion in costs after DOGE reviewed over 500 contracts and 50 business systems. The bulk of this savings came from cancelling the Department Air Force Strategic Transformation Support (DAFSTS) Contract for $4.8 billion in avoided costs. This however was an umbrella contract for a wide variety of IT modernization and consulting services, for which money had not been allocated, meaning that this tally might be affected by the same fuzzy double-counting and hypothetical savings that were an issue on the DOGE's own tally of cost recovery. agency: DOD project: spending source: https://www.meritalk.com/articles/air-force-says-doge-led-spending-cuts-total-10-4b/ id: 4E0yYFRr - date: 2025-07-20 type: offboard event: >- After a rocky few months in the Defense Secretary's office, Scott Fulcher resigns from his position. He claims he always intended to only spend six months in government. named: - Justin Fulcher source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/hegseth-aide-resigns-pentagon-justin-fulcher.html agency: DOD id: c34ipfqz - date: 2025-08-07 type: official event: >- The Press Secretary for the Pentagon affirms to reporters that DOGE is going to continue its work at the agency for the forseeable future. source: https://defensescoop.com/2025/08/07/doge-dod-not-going-to-stop-anytime-soon-pentagon-spokesperson/ agency: DOD id: 6I1J0XWX - date: 2025-10-(28)? type: onboard event: >- The Navy removes the head of the Office of Naval Research and places Rachel Riley in the role, despite the fact that she has no experience with the Navy. She was working on DOGE operations within HHS and her prior experience was with McKinsey. notable: true named: - Rachel Riley source: >- https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trump-replaces-admiral-office-naval-research-rothenhaus-riley-doge agency: DOD id: 4ExKU26P - date: 2025-10-31 type: report event: >- The DOGE team at the Pentagon is reported to be leading efforts to change how the military procures and uses drones and is expected to submit a report to leadership in the coming weeks. One of their goals is reportedly to acquire 30,000 drones in the next few months before ramping up further. The team's work is being led by Owen West, who also co-authored a drone memo in June. project: modernization named: - Owen West source: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/Pentagons-DOGE-unit-to-revamp-military-drone-program-sources-say agency: DOD id: 1JegS6mQ - date: 2025-12-(31)~ type: disruption event: >- In an end of year memo, the Defense Information Systems Agency reports that disruptions due to DOGE's direct targeting and pushing of the deferred resignation program resulted in a critical loss of staff that affected the ability of the department to conduct operations and obtain software. In one example, a senior contracting officer's departure even led to a lapse in an important cloud-computing contract. project: personnel source: https://theintercept.com/2026/01/19/doge-cuts-pentagon-it-military/ id: 7dU4alIZ agency: DOD - date: 2026-01-10 type: action event: >- Owen West is named as the new head of the Defense Innovation Unit at the Department of Defense. He has been the head of the DOGE team at the Pentagon and is expected to take over his new position in February or March. named: - Owen West agency: DOD source: >- https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-chooses-doge-official-and-former-trader-to-head-innovation-unit-f4f978b4 id: 7XGX76rS - date: 2026-02-06 type: disruption event: >- The head of the Pentagon's division for Responsible AI announces his resignation in a LinkedIn post. He stepped down over concerns that safety and governance were being sidelined in the Department of Defense's push to expand AI usage. He also had circulated memos critical of xAI's Grok model for its security and ethics. notable: true source: - >- https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai-grok-security-safety-government-73ab4f6e - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425504135254380544/ project: modernization agency: DOD id: 7XE1etml - date: 2026-03-04 type: action event: >- Although his official position of Chief Data Officer had not yet been formally announced, Gavin Kliger is copied on an email between the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, the undersecretary for research and engineering of the Department of Defense about a potential agreement for Anthropic usage at the agency. named: - Gavin Kliger source: https://www.wired.com/story/where-the-doge-operatives-are-now/ agency: DOD id: 6BOgjJ9U - date: 2026-03-06 type: onboard event: >- The Department of Defense names Gavin Kliger as its Chief Data Officer, overseeing aspects of the Pentagon's AI strategy and coordination with private AI firms. The press release also stated that Mr. Kliger also oversaw the launch of the GenAI.mil site as well as the Drone Dominance program that involved other DOGE staffers. fuzz: Weirdly, Gavin's own LinkedIn listed him with the title of Chief Data Officer in December last year. notable: true named: - Gavin Kliger source: - https://xcancel.com/DoWCTO/status/2029935768001495370 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-kliger-5a339b157/ project: modernization agency: DOD id: 5hUV0BE0 - date: 2026-04-22 type: official event: >- Speaking at a defense industry conference, Rachel Riley outlined a new path for the Office of Naval Research that is focused less on scientific research and more on applied research in areas where private industry is relatively undeveloped. This includes an effort into "explainable AI," in an attempt to reduce the prevalence of incorrect answers in current AI projects. project: modernization named: - Rachel Riley source: >- https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/04/navy-scientists-seek-tech-breakthroughs-areas-companies-ignore/413055/ agency: DOD id: 6EG0njLO - date: 2026-04-23 type: oversight event: >- Democrats on the House Armed Services committee sharply questioned Pentagon cybersecurity staff about reports that DOGE cuts had severely diminished the cyberdefense capacity at the Department of Defense. Government officials denied that there were any issues. source: https://legis1.com/news/pentagon-cyber-workforce-cuts-chiefs-defend-amid project: personnel agency: DOD id: 1CIj1jmb - name: Department of the Interior id: DOI short_name: DOI slug: interior page_slug: interior blurb: >- The Department of Interior might not seem like an important target for DOGE - the tech titans aren't as interested in extracting oil and gas or lumber - but the head of the DOGE team at the agency comes from an oil industry background. More recently, DOGE has been focused on getting super-user access for a payroll system provided as a shared service for half of the agencies in the federal government. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-28 type: disruption event: >- Two DOGE staffers – Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang – show up an Army Corp of Engineers dam in California and attempt to turn on water pumps to drain more wate one of California's reservoirs to help fight fires in LA. This dam fed water to central California, far away from the LA wildfires the water was supposed to help. notable: true named: - Tyler Hassen - Bryton Shang source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/climate/trump-doge-california-water/index.html agency: DOI id: eSiT2dsb - date: 2025-01-(30)~ type: disruption event: >- Tyler Hassen conducts a review of every single contract and grant from DOI and sends action items for review directly to Secretary Burgum. project: spending source: >- https://apnews.com/article/hassen-burgum-musk-interior-energy-conflicts-830e9df68c7869e943f96c4b5e384f20 agency: DOI id: 4j2BznnH - date: 2025-02-16 type: official event: Tyler Hassen sets up the DOGE_DOI account on X.com source: https://app.box.com/s/lsz7uil9ti9e98lkuz5vrahfekjk8pa5 named: - Tyler Hassen agency: DOI id: 5HPUHwgp - date: 2025-02-17 type: disruption event: >- Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen are invited to a series of meetings related to reviewing contracts at the Department of the Interior. source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u project: spending named: - Katrine Trampe - Tyler Hassen agency: DOI id: 4dAavCHE - date: 2025-02-21 type: disruption event: >- Katrine Trampe kicks off a series of meetings to discuss "workforce efficiency" for various bureaus at the Department of the Interior. project: personnel named: - Katrine Trampe source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u agency: DOI id: 6hjJVZRp - date: 2025-02-24 type: access event: >- Stephanie Holmes requests full admin access to the Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) system to process actions for herself as well as DOGE members Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen. This is a shared service provided by DOI which handles payroll for approximately half of the federal government. notable: true project: personnel source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf named: - Stephanie Holmes - Katrine Trampe - Tyler Hassen agency: DOI id: j8cpRtDP - date: 2025-02-25 type: action project: - fraud - personnel event: >- Citing concerns that there is fraud in the federal payroll, the DOGE team at the Department of the Interior meets with the Interior Business Center Team to discuss their request to receive a log audit of all employee names, positions and hire dates as well as total pay for each pay period. named: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe - Stephanie Holmes source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u agency: DOI id: 5ewDyv9T - date: 2025-02-27 type: access event: >- Stephanie Holmes' request for admin access to the FPPS system is approved Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, Jarrod Agen. project: personnel source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf named: - Stephanie Holmes agency: DOI id: TNkATrog - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption project: spending event: >- Officials at the US Fish and Wildlife Service meet with Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen to show them their system for reviewing and processing contracts and to identify ways for both to start approving new contracts for the organization. named: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u agency: DOI id: 2t1ENBWF - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: >- DOGE boasts in a tweet that 27% more water was released by the Bureau of Reclamation in February compared to January (unclear if this adjusts for different lengths of months). source: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1896948512975433787 agency: DOI id: 2kfvoFQv - date: 2025-03-27 type: disruption event: >- After being provided with access to FPPS, Stephanie Holmes raises concerns to DOI leadership that she has not yet been granted full admin access to FPPS. The agency CIO is concerned enough about the security implications that he will only allow it if the Secretary of the Interior signs off on a memo outlining the risks. Stephanie Holmes refuses to convey the message to Secretary Burgum. notable: true source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf project: - personnel named: - Stephanie Holmes agency: DOI id: 3iSCE7j5 - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- Tyler Hassen places the CIO and CISO at the Department of the Interior on admininstrative leave under investigation for raising alarm about DOGE's access and delaying Stephanie Holmes from having admin access to the FPPS system, which gives her visibility into payroll for half of the federal government. notable: true project: - personnel - impunity named: - Tyler Hassen source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/doge-musk-federal-payroll.html agency: DOI id: AGxssd5s - date: 2025-03-28 type: interagency interagency_doge_reps: DOI: - Katrine Trampe IRS: - Gavin Kliger event: >- After the CIO and CISO are sidelined, Gavin Kliger joins a call with Katrine Trampe to pressure a senior advisor in human resources at DOI to direct them to the system owner for FPPS. project: personnel source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf agency: DOI id: e4rwFTP2 - date: 2025-03-29 type: access event: >- Stephanie Holmes and Katrine Trampe are given full admin access to the Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) which handles the payroll processing for approximately half of the federal government. notable: true project: personnel source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf agency: DOI id: c1sryptv - date: 2025-04-01 type: official event: >- The manager of the DOI's labor relations branch initiates an investigation of the DOI's CIO, Deputy CIO, Associate Solicitor and a Special Advisor to HR over their attempts to prevent DOGE from having admin access to FPPS. project: impunity source: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4_15_25_Report-of-the-Investigation.pdf agency: DOI id: Acsi6Z5A - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption event: >- The Washington Posts reports that both Tyler Hassen and Matt Luby are scrutinizing all grants at the Department of the Interior. They also requested a list of all grants going to Maine, perhaps to punish the state for its governor's defiance of Trump. project: spending named: - Tyler Hassen - Matt Luby source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/21/tyler-hassen-department-of-interior/ agency: DOI id: WnVuBFwT - date: 2025-04-17 type: official event: >- The Secretary of the Interior formally designates that Tyler Hassen is in charge of implementing cuts to the agency and reorganizing its offices and areas of responsibility. project: - personnel - elimination named: - Tyler Hassen source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/21/tyler-hassen-department-of-interior/ agency: DOI id: f5MfXn7G - date: 2025-05-02 type: disruption event: >- Stephanie Holmes, in her role as acting chief human capital officers, sends an email ordering DOI staff to stop by May 28 from doing any detail work they were doing to cover for DOGE staffing cuts at the agency. named: - Stephanie Holmes source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/24/interior-department-land-bureau-pushes-against-doge-00360303 agency: DOI id: yenHvAv5 - date: 2025-05-05 type: official event: DOI extends its freeze on issuing any new regulations out to June 4th. project: deregulation source: >- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/05/2025-07725/practices-before-the-department-of-the-interior-delay-of-effective-date agency: DOI id: 7456Y62T - date: 2025-05-07 type: disruption event: >- A spreadsheet created by Conor Fennessy outlines a reported $26 million in grant reductions for programs in the National Parks, including those identified as "DEI" or studying climate change. It also axes a popular Scientists in Parks program, that provides educational opportunities for early-career scientists and students. A $400K project to make a park accessible for children with disabilities was also targeted because it was "DEI." notable: true project: - dei - spending agency: DOI named: - Conor Fennessy source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/climate/trump-park-service-grants-cuts.html id: 6muY9B4b - date: 2025-05-26 type: disruption source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/05/27/bureau-land-management-doge-nedd/ event: >- After Politico published a report that included an email from a 30-year veteran of the Bureau of Land Management which told staff to ignore instructions from Stephanie Holmes that they weren't allow to sub in for empty roles, he is escorted out of the building by security. project: impunity agency: DOI id: 6ozDhEa2 - date: 2025-06-06 type: directory event: >- An article in the _New York Times_ reports that both Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes are still active at the DOI. named: - Tyler Hassen - Stephanie Holmes source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-interior-epa.html agency: DOI id: 6XoiI5HX - date: 2025-07-09 type: oversight event: >- Ranking Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee send a letter expressing concern and urging the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to immediately revoke DOGE's access to the FPPS system that handles payroll for large parts of the US government. named: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe - Stephanie Holmes source: >- https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/huffman-trahan-demand-answers-on-doges-unchecked-access-to-sensitive-doi-data-amid-growing-security-concerns agency: DOI id: 6iuch0vH - date: 2025-08-18 type: report event: >- Despite announcing that he would be leaving the agency on August 1st, Tyler Hassen is still reportedly working at the Department of the Interior. It is unclear what his title is and where his work is focused, but he is still there. named: - Tyler Hassen source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-official-is-still-at-interior-after-expected-exit/ agency: DOI id: 5W8Rkc4L - date: 2025-09-02 type: oversight event: >- Democrats on the House Committe on Natural Resources send a letter to the Secretary of the Interior requesting information about the activities of Tyler Hassen at the agency including his financial disclosure forms, communications with the ethics office and daily calendar. source: https://www.publicdomain.media/p/tyler-hassen-interior-doge-financial-holdings named: - Tyler Hassen agency: DOI id: 3kPlq8tx - date: 2025-09-03 type: offboard event: >- A day after receiving the letter from House Democrats, the Secretary of the Interior amends his prior order naming Tyler Hassen to the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary to instead be filled by another person at the agency not affiliated with DOGE. It's unclear if this means that Tyler Hassen is out of the agency or is just in a different role. linked: - Tyler Hassen source: https://www.publicdomain.media/p/tyler-hassen-interior-doge-financial-holdings agency: DOI id: 3PgtmNdL - date: 2025-09-24 type: disruption event: >- The Department of Interior is reportedly planning another round of layoffs for mid-October. This follows the loss of 7500 employees (nearly 11% of its workforce) already. The agency is reported to be using the AutoRIF software developed at OPM to run the process, and it is being run by Stephanie Holmes and Tyler Hassen, who did not leave the agency in August as previously reported. project: personnel named: - Stephanie Holmes - Tyler Hassen linked: - Riccardo Biasini source: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/09/interior-department-taking-steps-implement-layoffs/408342/ agency: DOI id: 4VlDcI1U - date: 2025-11-04 type: legal event: >- In a court filing, the Department of Interior reveals that it has frozen its plans to imminently layoff more employees. project: personnel linked: - Stephanie Holmes source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/interior-freezes-layoff-plans/ agency: DOI id: 1IaUVenD - name: Department of Government Efficiency id: DOGE short_name: DOGE slug: doge parent_id: EOP page_slug: white-house doge_base: true linkify: false events: - date: 2024-11-15 type: sighting event: >- Elon Musk and Russell Vought meet each other for the first time at Mar-a-Lago. They reportedly got along very well, with "both on the same wavelength in terms of taking the most extreme action possible." notable: true named: - Russell Vought - Elon Musk source: https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb agency: - DOGE id: 1I9c0qJj - date: 2024-11-26 type: sighting event: >- A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posted a message in an AI challenge's Discord saying "Helping the Dept. of Government Efficiency team find hardcore engineers. Send your GitHub/LinkedIn to @DOGE on X and your X handle to me in DM if you're interested or know someone who is, could help get them into the pipeline." named: - Anthony Jancso source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-recruiting-palantir/ agency: DOGE id: 2SjuZBR5 - date: 2024-12-05 type: sighting event: >- A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posts recruitment messages for DOGE to a chat group for employees who had worked at Palantir named: - Anthony Jancso source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-recruiting-palantir/ agency: DOGE id: YmbfLdNB - date: 2024-12-05 type: sighting event: >- Luke Farritor posts a recruitment message for DOGE in a Discord server for SpaceX interns stating that he is looking for volunteers to work at DOGE for 6 months. notable: true named: - Luke Farritor source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-recruiting-palantir/ agency: DOGE id: 24qgS3WS - date: 2024-12-06 type: directory event: >- A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump's transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-silicon-valley.html named: - Elon Musk - Marc Andreessen - Jared Birchall - Shaun Maguire - Scott Kupor - Michael Kratsios - Steve Davis - Baris Akis agency: DOGE id: 8vDj2q7P - date: 2024-12-06 type: directory event: >- An article in the NYT identifies Brad Smith as the person effectively running DOGE at Mar-a-Lago during the project's formation and speculates that DOGE may have an early focus on healthcare for this reason. It also names Steve Davis as a close collaborator. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-brad-smith-trump.html named: - Brad Smith - Steve Davis agency: DOGE id: 2pttT6lj - date: 2025-01-02 type: action event: >- Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh named: - Baris Akis - Steve Davis - Nate Cavanaugh - Vinay Hiremath source: https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-2.pdf agency: DOGE id: 5NaqVqNN - date: 2025-01-06 type: directory event: >- Future DOGE recruit Riley Sennott's public calendar lists a 15-minute DOGE recruiting meeting on this day. named: - Riley Sennott source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/we-found-a-doge-guy-at-nasa-because-his-google-calendar-was-public/ar-AA1At75X agency: DOGE id: KvP48A34 - date: 2025-01-12 type: directory event: >- A _New York Times_ report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project notable: true named: - Marc Andreessen - Shaun Maguire - Baris Akis - Vinay Hiremath - Brad Smith - Steve Davis - Matt Luby - Joanna Wischer - Rachel Riley - James Burnham source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html agency: DOGE id: V7Gkkvah - date: 2025-01-16 type: report event: >- A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire. named: - Marc Andreessen - Shaun Maguire source: >- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3287555/maga-conservative-non-profits-doge-research/ agency: DOGE id: TfWVwUjM - date: 2025-01-17 type: sighting event: >- The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute "SGE Ethics Discussion" meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee. named: - Riley Sennott - Derek Geissler - Brooks Morgan - Conor Fennessy source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/we-found-a-doge-guy-at-nasa-because-his-google-calendar-was-public/ar-AA1At75X agency: DOGE id: CPQe7omt - date: 2025-01-20 type: official event: >- An Inauguration Day executive order EO 14158 renames the US Digital Services and establishes the DOGE Temporary Organization within it, staffed with 4-person teams in agencies for "implementing the president's DOGE agenda" source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ agency: DOGE id: 2Qe7j4uD - date: 2025-01-20 type: official event: >- USDS is transferred out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and established as a standalone office in the Executive Office of the President. project: impunity source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25564597-crewvdogereconmot031425/ agency: DOGE id: bT57eChF - date: 2025-01-21 type: disruption event: >- Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired. notable: true project: personnel named: - Cole Killian - Nikhil Rajpal source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/ agency: DOGE id: 2y8WthBd - date: 2025-01-24 type: directory event: >- A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE. source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-just-got-hire-224212262.html named: - Katie Miller - Brad Smith - Steve Davis - Marc Andreessen - Shaun Maguire - Rachel Riley - Joanna Wischer - Baris Akis - James Burnham agency: DOGE id: VdEHz47g - date: 2025-01-(25)~ type: report fuzz: date not given, but source published Feb 4th event: >- Elon Musk makes an official request to the White House for Baris Akis to be allowed to work for DOGE, even though he is a noncitizen and it wouldn't normally be allowed. His request is denied. source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-green-card-trump/681575/ named: - Elon Musk - Baris Akis agency: DOGE id: 1rzb08sG - date: 2025-02-01 type: report event: >- Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE/USDS, is unable to answer questions from USDS staff about if the "Fork in the Road" retirement offer is legitimate. project: personnel named: - Stephanie Holmes source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hr-elon-musk-resignation-fork-road-leaked-staff-meeting/ agency: DOGE id: 6UjKROlu - date: 2025-02-05 type: official case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 event: >- According to later sworn testimony from Kendall Lindemann, this is the date that Steve Davis was designated as the decision-maker for DOGE as the senior-most political appointee until Amy Gleason is appointed as acting administratior of DOGE on 2025-02-18. Later news reports suggest Steve Davis continued to remain in charge, even after Amy Gleason's appointment. notable: true project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.4.pdf named: - Steve Davis linked: - Amy Gleason - Kendall Lindemann agency: DOGE id: nhBU8qVd - date: 2025-02-11 type: official event: >- Trump issues EO 14210 which grants DOGE teams in every agency final approval over any hiring decisions. It also creates a rule that an agency can hire 1 new person only if 4 people have left. project: personnel source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/ agency: DOGE id: 8jFnTPVN - date: 2025-02-11 type: report agency: DOGE event: >- Online security researchers post evidence that the DOGE website was developed and is hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt. named: - Kyle Schutt source: https://xcancel.com/samwcyo/status/1889527715029557607 id: 6Zr8aMzw - date: 2025-02-13 type: website event: >- DOGE announces that its website is now live. The site is launched with an organizational chart and tweets from the DOGE X account. It is presented as white text on a black background. notable: true project: modernization source: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1889897384122982604#m agency: DOGE id: dKmuYfJv - date: 2025-02-14 type: disruption event: >- Approximately 50 USDS staff are fired, with most of terminations focused on project managers and designers (removing approximately 1/3 of the USDS staff that predated DOGE). notable: true project: personnel source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-major-government-tech-projects-efficiency/ agency: DOGE id: 53SzbRoa - date: 2025-02-17 type: legal event: >- In a filing in "State of New Mexico v. Elon Musk," DOJ lawyers declare on the record that Elon Musk is not the USDS Administrator, but just a mere advisor. project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00429 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.24.0_1.pdf agency: DOGE id: jLKRjRxS - date: 2025-02-18 type: report event: >- A custom AI chatbot based on xAI's Grok model was discovered hosted on subdomain on the doge.gov site. It is linked to Christopher Stanley. project: modernization named: - Christopher Stanley source: >- https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/elon-musk-staffer-created-a-doge-ai-assistant-for-making-government-less-dumb/ agency: DOGE id: c8PWENvT - date: 2025-02-19 type: official event: >- Trump issues an executive order EO 14218 "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders" that instructs USDS to work with agencies to identify federal funding for immigrants and build up eligibility verification systems project: immigration source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders/ agency: DOGE id: 4jLJWhw6 - date: 2025-02-19 type: official event: >- Trump issues an executive order EO 14219 "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Deregulatory Initiative" which requires agency heads to consult with DOGE teams on deregulatory efforts. project: deregulation source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-lawful-governance-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-regulatory-initiative/ agency: DOGE id: YAentsgx - date: 2025-02-24 type: legal event: >- In a hearing for "Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent," Judge Kollar-Kotelly repeatedly grills DOJ lawyers to identify who the USDS Administrator is. project: impunity source: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/who-is-running-the-u.s.-doge-service agency: DOGE id: AJPVbMyh - date: 2025-02-25 type: disruption event: >- 21 of the remaining USDS staff who predated DOGE's arrival publicly resign in protest of DOGE's actions and publish an open letter on their resignation. source: >- https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c agency: DOGE id: 2de2q6rb - date: 2025-02-25 type: official event: >- DOGE announces via their X account that they have launched a new feature on their website showing the wall of savings from contract cancellations (many of these savings are later shown to be wildly erroneous, an issue that persists to this day). notable: true source: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1896948512975433787 agency: DOGE id: K9KCfjYK - date: 2025-02-26 type: official event: >- Trump issues an executive order EO 14222 mandating that DOGE teams will have veto power over the award of new contracts at any agency. This order also freezes purchase cards for 90 days, which causes a huge number of unexepected problems across the federal government. project: spending source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/ agency: DOGE id: Af8KwhwZ - date: 2025-02-26 type: official event: >- After days of sustained questioning about who the USDS Administrator is, the White House gives the name of Amy Gleason. It is unclear how long she had been in the role. She also conveniently is on a trip to Mexico during the announcement and is thus unreachable. notable: true project: impunity named: - Amy Gleason source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310634/amy-gleason-doge-administrator agency: DOGE id: jUGZwRWr - date: 2025-02-27 type: legal event: >- U.S. District Judge John Bates orders that some DOGE officials should be required to testify under oath in the case of AFL-CIO v. Dep't of Labor (D.D.C.) source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/doge-depositions-union-lawsuits-00206542 case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: DOGE id: dq7CdXaH - date: 2025-03-05 type: directory event: >- The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed source: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers/ named: - Steve Davis - Marko Elez - Luke Farritor - Edward Coristine - Justin Aimonetti - Ashley Boizelle - Joshua Fox - Joshua Hanley agency: DOGE id: C9H7QGC5 - date: 2025-03-05 type: legal event: >- From this date, detailing arrangements for DOGE staff are between the target agency and other agencies that have now hired DOGE staff, according to a declaration made by DOGE in AFL-CIO et al vs. Department of Labor. For instance, Jordan Wick became an employee of the CFPB instead of DOGE. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.51.1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: DOGE id: QCzD83nC - date: 2025-03-06 type: disruption event: >- The Engineering Director of USDS publicly resigns in protest, stating "this is not the mission I joined." notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineering-director-resign/ agency: DOGE id: MqbymWLE - date: 2025-03-10 type: legal event: >- U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper demands that DOGE should reponse to discovery order in a court case with a rolling release of documents to commence within weeks. case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/judge-orders-doge-record-release-00223151 agency: DOGE id: 9mT2W8db - date: 2025-03-10 type: directory event: >- Elon Musk claims there are about 100 DOGE staffers and shares that he has plans to double to 200. He also claims they are working in every federal agency within the government. source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/musk-says-doge-almost-every-federal-agency-plans-double-staff-rcna195735 agency: DOGE id: HNDWiEsL - date: 2025-03-12 type: legal event: >- US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issues an order giving DOGE and Elon Musk three weeks to comply with document discovery requests about its staffing and downsizing plans for agencies source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/12/elon-musk-judge-orders-discovery-00227924 case_no: 1:25-cv-00429 agency: DOGE id: Vfm7HbS4 - date: 2025-03-18 type: legal event: >- In a ruling in _J. Doe 1-26 v. Musk (D. Md)_, Judge Theodore D. Chuang declares that evidence shows that Elon Musk was effectively running DOGE without being formally appointed to the role. project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.73.0_3.pdf case_no: 8:25-cv-00462 agency: DOGE id: bhuqN8P5 - date: 2025-03-18 type: official event: >- In an unsigned email response to the Intercept Media, DOGE claims it is within the Executive Office of the President and thus not subject to FOIA. This is a response they use to deny all FOIA requests. notable: true project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639178/gov.uscourts.nysd.639178.1.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-02404 agency: DOGE id: RFCHUNhk - date: 2025-03-19 type: directory event: >- In another sworn statement, Amy Gleason declares "every member of an agency's DOGE Team is an employee of the agency or a detailee to the agency." She does later clarify that some are detailed from USDS but also claims they report to agency heads. She also reports that USDS has approximately 79 directly appointed employees and 10 employees detailed from other agencies. project: impunity named: - Amy Gleason case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646.24.2.pdf agency: DOGE id: j8dSpHp3 - date: 2025-03-19 type: onboard event: >- DOGE has reportedly hired Adam Hoffman to work on national security related projects. It is unclear if he is working directly for DOGE or is formally hired at another agency. source: >- https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/musks-doge-hires-ken-griffin-staffer-for-national-security-work named: - Adam Hoffman agency: DOGE id: mZDXKZv5 - date: 2025-03-20 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 event: >- In a response to the court order by Judge Cooper in CREW v. DOGE, the government estimates it would need to produce 105,403 documents in response to the CREW FOIA requests source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646.25.0.pdf agency: DOGE id: bvMjErqQ - date: 2025-03-20 type: official event: >- President Trump issues an executive order demaning that agency heads must share all access to any unclassified datasets "related to the identification and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse." This is potentially in violation of the Privacy Act, so the order leaves it to individual agency staff to determine what sharing is allowed "to the maximum extent consistent with law." project: - immigration - fraud - spending source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ agency: DOGE id: V6ZVi48F - date: 2025-03-25 type: official event: >- Within a large executive order (EO 14248) about voting, Trump orders DOGE "to review each State's publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities." project: immigration source: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doge-voter-rolls-executive-order-2025-3 agency: DOGE id: 8rQqTtqy - date: 2025-03-(26)~ type: directory fuzz: >- date is given as "late March," assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time named: - Elon Musk - Steve Davis - Baris Akis - Anthony Armstrong project: impunity event: >- In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an "E-meeting" for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him. source: https://www.wired.com/story/fired-doge-staffer-who-is-in-charge/ agency: DOGE id: VDqi9Jgg - date: 2025-03-26 type: directory event: Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE. source: >- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/03/26/doge-assembles-a-legal-army-00251903 named: - James Burnham - Noah Peters - Jacob Altik - Justin Aimonetti - Daniel Abrahamson - Jeremy Lewin - Ashley Boizelle - Joshua Fox - Joshua Hanley - Keenan Kmiec - Austin Raynor agency: DOGE id: avfnFBSY - date: 2025-03-27 event: In response to litigation about records keeping, DOGE submits a new records retention policy type: legal project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277367/gov.uscourts.dcd.277367.13.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00409 agency: DOGE id: HDyeD2he - date: 2025-03-27 type: legal event: >- DOGE provides an updated estimate of documents that would be subject to CREW's FOIA requests as 58,000 in total. case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646/gov.uscourts.dcd.277646.28.0.pdf agency: DOGE id: PWv6ybwS - date: 2025-04-07 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 event: >- Kendall Lindemann testifies in a sworn deposition for _AFL-CIO v. Dep't of Labor (D.D.C.)_ as a representative of DOGE after saying she had conducted extensive conversations with Amy Gleason. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.4.pdf named: - Kendall Lindemann agency: DOGE id: Gti7PARC - date: 2025-04-18 type: legal event: >- DOGE is granted an administrative stay on replying to CREW's FOIA requests while its appeal is being considered by an appeals court. project: impunity source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/doge-watchdog-case-appeals-ruling.html agency: DOGE id: 1pb0Ip4d - date: 2025-05-14 type: legal event: >- An appeals court rules that DOGE must resume complying with FOIA requests filed by CREW about the organization's internal operations. That work had been on hold since an administrative stay on April 18 project: impunity source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/doge-watchdog-case-appeals-ruling.html agency: DOGE id: 3b9znEPp - date: 2025-05-23 type: legal event: >- The Supreme Court issues a stay on the shadow docket for an order from an appeals court that DOGE must start producing documents for CREW, meaning that DOGE is once again able to delay producing documents. project: impunity source: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052325zr1_1b8e.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 agency: DOGE id: 5fCND3ng - date: 2025-05-28 type: offboard event: >- Elon Musk claims on his X.com account that he has ended his time as a Special Government Employee but that he remains on good terms with the team. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html named: - Elon Musk agency: DOGE id: 2av8Swnp - date: 2025-05-29 type: offboard event: >- In the wake of Elon Musk's departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also leave DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it's unclear who will take that over. notable: true named: - Steve Davis - Katie Miller - James Burnham source: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5324467-doge-officials-exit-trump-adminstration/ agency: DOGE id: MJJHVXvK - date: 2025-05-31 type: offboard event: >- After smiling with Trump at a press conference at the White House, Elon Musk convened DOGE staff for a private farewell at his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He reportedly urged DOGE to rethink its methods and that the next iteration of DOGE should be decentralized and work more collaboratively with agency leadership. Steve Davis joined in by telephone and stated that he did not intend to go anywhere, which many interpreted to mean that he would be hired into a new role. named: - Elon Musk - Steve Davis agency: DOGE source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110 id: 7Moywbop - date: 2025-06-02 type: official event: >- In the budget for next year, the White House requests $45 million total for DOGE, forecasting 150 employees would work for the agency. From this amount, it allocates $10 million for a "software modernization initiative," with $35 million being provided to DOGE through reimbursement from agencies where DOGE staff will be embedded. project: modernization source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2025/06/white-house-budget-request-includes-45-million-doge-funding/405744/ agency: DOGE id: 7F1ZKLk8 - date: 2025-06-04 type: official event: >- In an appendix for next year's budget request, the White Houre reports that approximately 89 staffers have worked for DOGE this fiscal year, and this number includes direct employees as well as staff on reimburable details. It's unclear if this count includes remaining members of the USDS, but that seems likely. source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/budget-documents-reveal-plan-to-increase-doge-staffing-00382294 agency: DOGE id: 6a115zfz - date: 2025-06-04 type: official event: >- Testifying to Congress, Russell Vought says the White House is in "the midst of … establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis." But he also says more DOGE staff will be embedded directly in agencies to report to leadership there. Amy Gleason is not mentioned. source: https://fedscoop.com/russell-vought-doge-will-be-far-more-institutionalized-at-agencies/ named: - Russell Vought agency: DOGE id: 5Kjz8pzk - date: 2025-06-(05)~ type: disruption event: >- Concerned by Steve Davis' attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement. notable: true fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards named: - Steve Davis - Yinon Weiss - Sam Corcos - Ryan Shea - Adam Blake - Austin Raynor source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 agency: DOGE id: 5iPb1g7n - date: 2025-06-06 type: report event: >- Despite the departure of Elon Musk and several key leaders below him, DOGE is actively recruiting for new hires, promising pay of up to $195,200 (the maximum for a GS-15) and a two year excepted term. DOGE is reportedly hiring for both the USDS and the DOGE Temporary Organizations that embed in other agencies. notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiting-spree-elon-musk/ agency: DOGE id: 1ar8TwsA - date: 2025-06-06 type: legal event: >- In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the US Supreme Court overturned rulings from lower courts that DOGE would have to comply immediately with records requests from CREW in their lawsuit. This rejection does not terminate the case, but it allows for an indefinite pause as cases are being considered. project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00511 source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-social-security.html agency: DOGE id: 7ROgHwXL - date: 2025-06-07 type: disruption event: >- Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications. notable: true named: - Steve Davis - Ryan Shea - Sam Corcos - Yinon Weiss - Adam Blake source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 agency: DOGE id: 7mh9D1Rv - date: 2025-06-10 type: report event: >- Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at an all-hands meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course. notable: true named: - Elon Musk - Steve Davis - Katie Miller source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-elon-musk-left-control-92770407 agency: DOGE id: 7YP77O7V - date: 2025-07-08 type: report event: >- The _Wall Street Journal_ reports that Steve Davis continues to exert control over DOGE via informal communications, despite having departed the agency after Musk left. project: impunity named: - Steve Davis source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-elon-musk-left-control-92770407 agency: DOGE id: 1yivsqc3 - date: 2025-07-15 type: legal event: >- In a setback for the Trump administration, an appeals court rules in _CREW v. DOGE_ that the agency must comply with records requests being made by CREW and that the official DOGE administrator Amy Gleason must be made available to testify. This came after CREW modified its initial request to exclude certain communications that the Supreme Court had ruled should be exempted. Those changes were enough to satisfy the appeals court. named: - Amy Gleason project: impunity agency: DOGE source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-15/doge-head-must-testify-in-fight-over-records-access-court-rules id: 6p1CHIrc - date: 2025-07-30 type: oversight event: >- Three Democratic senators introduce the "Pick Up After Your DOGE Act", which would task the GAO with auditing what systems DOGE has accessed across the government. The bill will not pass, but it could be a preview of oversight measures that could happen with a change of control in Congress. agency: DOGE source: https://meritalk.com/articles/senate-bill-looks-to-audit-systems-accessed-by-doge/ id: 3c5lmJVB - date: 2025-08-12 type: report event: >- In an analysis of DOGE's continued exaggeration about its savings, _Politico_ notes that updates to the site's Wall of Receipts have become more infrequent. There were barely any updates in June, followed by a four-week gap in July and another 17 days for a few items in August. This suggests that the cost-cutting mission (or at least, bragging about it) has slowed or faltered within DOGE. notable: true project: spending source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178?cid=apn agency: DOGE id: 19RsylOA - date: 2025-11-22 type: report agency: DOGE event: >- Many current and former members of DOGE reportedly hold a reunion in Austin, Texas where Elon Musk and Steve Davis are expected to attend and it's likely there will be discussions on the future of DOGE. source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110 named: - Elon Musk - Steve Davis id: vm7cVavA - date: 2025-12-15 type: legal event: >- Citing "events subsequent to its filing," the plaintiffs in _State of New Mexico v. Elon Musk_ move to voluntarily dismiss the case, since DOGE has formally wound down (although DOGE staffers do remain in government) and Elon Musk has left his role case_no: 1:25-cv-00429 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.116.0_1.pdf agency: DOGE id: 1AZEOB9S - date: 2026-01-03 type: official event: >- The US DOGE Service posts that it is looking for new people to fill two-year terms as part of the regular digital service organization (not the temporary one). The posting states that approximately 70 people work for USDS now, a steep reduction from the 230 people who were in USDS in 2024. notable: true source: - >- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/united-states-doge-service_apply-to-usds-united-states-doge-service-activity-7413021233820327936-hwZc/ - https://www.usds.gov/impact-report/2024/by-the-numbers/ agency: DOGE id: 6k7Nb8k7 - date: 2026-03-18 type: legal project: impunity event: >- DOGE files an appeal to the US Supreme Court against lower court orders that DOGE was required to comply with legal discovery in a case about whether DOGE is subject to FOIA requests. The agency continues to maintain that its work is considered Presidential Records (which would delay disclosure for decades). source: >- https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/doge-again-attempts-to-delay-discovery-in-crew-records-case/ agency: DOGE id: 1WxHZAPm - name: Department of Homeland Security id: DHS short_name: DHS slug: dhs page_slug: homeland-security blurb: | Created in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is a massive agency which contains variety of agencies concerned with law enforcement, immigration, disaster response and even cybersecurity. DHS contains the following agencies where DOGE has had linked activities: - **Customs and Border Patrol (CPB)**: the agency that secures America's border (and can act 100 miles within from any of those borders). This is also the agency that collects tariff duties. - **Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)**: a centralized clearinghouse and coordinator for defense of America's physical and network infrastructure. This is also the agency that must be notified when breaches of government systems occur. - **Federal Emergency Management (FEMA)**: the agency for coordinating federal responses to natural disasters - **Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)**: the agency that handles immigration arrests. The Trump administration is looking to dramatically expand its size and scope for detentions and deportations. - **Transportation Security Administration (TSA)**: this agency handles security at airports. DOGE is reportedly involved with activities in this agency, but there are no details on this. - **US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)**: the agency that supports legal immigration and naturalization to America has been targeted by DOGE for reductions and to create a new $5 million immigration visa. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-08 type: disruption project: dei event: >- The DOGE social media account on X boasts about deleting a page of LGBTQI+ resources that was part of the DHS website. source: https://www.newsweek.com/doge-account-calls-attention-removing-lgbtq-web-page-2028440 agency: DHS id: dLc2F3xm - date: 2025-02-10 type: sighting named: - Edward Coristine event: Edward Coristine appears in an online DHS staff directory with the title of Senior Advisor. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ agency: DHS id: bJckd7pu - date: 2025-02-10 type: report event: >- In a meeting providing him with an overview of DHS programs, Kyle Schutt stuns federal staff in the Office of Civil Rights by declaring one of their programs (CRCL) looks like money laundering. project: elimination named: - Kyle Schutt source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/doge-marco-elez-software-engineer-us-payroll-00259303 agency: DHS id: BGZKY6go - date: 2025-02-26 type: report event: >- Republican lawmakers on the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security unanimously opposed a resolution of inquiry into DOGE activities at DHS. project: impunity source: >- https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/house-committee-blocks-probe-into-doge-access-to-dhs-systems-a-27608 agency: DHS id: EAo8rM7V - date: 2025-03-XX type: disruption event: >- Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine repeatedly pressure staff over the next two months at DHS to use Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI, despite the fact it had not been approved for use in the agency. A DHS spokesperson later denied the allegations. project: modernization source: >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musks-doge-expanding-his-grok-ai-us-government-raising-conflict-concerns-2025-05-23/ comment: >- DOGE staff told DHS officials over the last two months to use Grok even though it had not been approved for use at the sprawling agency named: - Kyle Schutt - Edward Coristine agency: DHS id: 4ZZrgRGx - date: 2025-03-21 type: disruption event: >- The Trump administration eliminates the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and two ombudsman offices responsible for investigating allegations of abuse from immigrants. This also includes the CRCL program that was characterized as "money laundering" by DOGE staffer Kyle Schutt. notable: true project: - dei - immigration source: >- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-civil-rights-homeland-security-deportations.html linked: - Kyle Schutt agency: DHS id: EfkJdKiY - date: 2025-04-11 type: directory event: >- Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies. notable: true source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327 project: immigration named: - Antonio Gracias - Kyle Schutt - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Payton Rehling - Aram Moghaddassi agency: DHS id: VXSiUz7f - date: 2025-05-06 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff are reportedly working within the Office of Biometric Management (OBIM) at DHS which oversees the biometric systems IDENT and HART, giving them access to the largest database of biometric identifiers in the world. notable: true source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-arrives-at-homeland-security-biometrics-operations/ project: immigration agency: DHS id: 1OvaP6aP - date: 2025-05-12 agency: DHS type: access event: >- The Department of Homeland Security issues a subpoena to the state of California and Los Angeles County to demand records from a cash assistance program for immigrants (CAPI). project: immigration source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-subpoenas-california-immigrant-assistance-program/ id: 6v58lA7s - date: 2025-05-23 type: disruption event: >- Reuters reports that DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine have attempted to gain access to DHS employee emails in recent months and ordered staff to train AI to identify communications suggesting an employee is not "loyal" to Trump's political agenda. Given earlier reports, the AI in question is like xAi's "Grok" AI system. notable: true project: - modernization - personnel source: >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musks-doge-expanding-his-grok-ai-us-government-raising-conflict-concerns-2025-05-23/ named: - Kyle Schutt - Edward Coristine agency: DHS id: 395o34d5 - name: Department of Justice id: DOJ short_name: DOJ slug: doj page_slug: justice blurb: >- One of the overarching stories of the Trump admininstration has been the destruction of the Department of Justice's independence and the view of new leadership that they are the President's lawyers and will take command from him on what to prosecute. The old DOJ would not let DOGE within ten miles of its operations. The current DOJ has welcomed them in, with Attorney General Pam Bondi kicking off a DOGE-style initiative to reorganize the DOJ and FBI. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-03-11 type: disruption event: >- Eugene Vindman, a US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer who identifies himself as an Executive Assistant US Attorney. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-us-attorney-targets-ukraine-whistleblower-rep-vindman/ar-AA1AIUw3 agency: DOJ named: - Clayton Cromer id: 6hBRdYWA - date: 2025-03-12 type: sighting event: Several unidentified DOGE representatives are reportedly spotted working at DOJ source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ag-pam-bondi-forms-internal-team-work-doge/story?id=119751049 agency: DOJ id: 2hcXx5ue - date: 2025-03-13 type: official event: >- Attorney General Pam Bondi announces she is forming a "JUST DOGE" team to look at restructuring the agency and its subsidiaries. notable: true project: - personnel source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ag-pam-bondi-forms-internal-team-work-doge/story?id=119751049 agency: DOJ id: 9vZuxTFv - date: 2025-04-01 type: sighting event: >- DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's Office and he reportedly holds a security clearance. named: - Christopher Stanley source: >- https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/doge-official-doj-bragged-about-hacking-distributing-pirated-software-2025-04-02/ agency: DOJ id: ZBURnU93 - date: 2025-04-03 type: interagency event: >- Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE's crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ. He coordinates with Josh Gruenbaum at the GSA, who is leading a multi-agency effort to eliminate grants. project: - dei - spending interagency_doge_reps: DOJ: Tarak Makecha GSA: Josh Gruenbaum source: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-doge--directives--and-doj agency: DOJ id: kaxNhRgZ - date: 2025-04-03 type: disruption event: >- Tarak Makecha escalates his demands at 6:25pm that the Acacia contracts must be terminated immediately despite it being after business hours and there not being an actual emergency. project: - spending - dei named: - Tarak Makecha source: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-doge--directives--and-doj agency: DOJ id: CC2AMRi3 - date: 2025-04-03 type: disruption event: >- Tarak Makecha finds a DOJ Contracting Officer after hours at 7:25pm to send the termination despite agency concerns that it violates the terms of a court order to not provide 3 days notice for termination. named: - Tarak Makecha source: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-doge--directives--and-doj agency: DOJ id: eB4QfKtt - date: 2025-08-03 type: disruption project: immigration event: >- At least 19 states confirm that the Department of Justice has requested their voter registration lists and records from the 2024 and 2020 elections. At least seven states have reported that DOJ proposed an information-sharing agreement related to election fraud. States have not traditionally shared such information in the past, and there are concerns that this will be used in a fishing expedition for crimes or that the data will not be properly protected. This effort echoes an assertion in May by Antion Gracias that DOJ had asked DOGE to find “10-20 cases of alleged noncitizen voting in every state." notable: true source: >- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice-department-seeking-voter-election-data-states_n_688fa122e4b01495a63e53df agency: DOJ id: 1Wdw7ykw - date: 2025-09-17 type: legal event: >- The Department of Justice files a lawsuit against Maine and Oregon for refusing to comply with EO 14248, an executive order that demanded that states must share unredacted voter registration lists with the federal government. Multiple states have refused to comply, citing both the questionable legality of the order as well as concerns about privacy. This data will also likely be imported into a DOGE project to look for voting fraud that could exaggerate the problem and cast doubts on the integrity of US elections notable: true project: immigration source: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5544354/voter-data-lawsuit-oregon-maine agency: DOJ id: 3DBi2zCA - date: 2025-09-25 type: legal event: >- The DOJ files a lawsuit against five more states – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and New Hampshire – that refused to turn over full and unredacted voter registration information for the past two elections to the DOJ. This order was mandated in EO 14248, but it's unclear that the President has any constitutional authority to demand such cooperation from the states. This data likely will be aggregated into a DOGE-created system to look in voter registration data for fraud, raising concerns that erroneous claims will be used to undermine elections. notable: true project: immigration source: >- https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-state-department-secretary-al-schmidt-suit-20250925.html agency: DOJ id: 4hq0C5hr - date: 2025-12-02 type: disruption event: >- The DOJ files a lawsuit against six more states – Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington – for refusing to provide sweeping voting data to the administration, including full names, residential addresses, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. notable: true project: immigration source: >- https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-sues-six-more-states-in-sweeping-push-to-obtain-unredacted-voter-rolls/ agency: DOJ id: 439CZIvL - name: Department of Education id: Education short_name: Ed. slug: education page_slug: education blurb: >- A DOGE delegation arrived at the Department of Education only a week after the Inauguration, and in early February there were reports of up to 10 DOGE staffers embedded within the agency and feeding data to an AI system for analysis. DOGE's primary mission at the Department of Education is to support the administration's goal of eliminating the agency without needing approval from Congress. DOGE has contributed both its antipersonnel practicea and a tight control over spending, axing many key contracts in February for assessing the performance of American schools. These efforts have met some resistance in the courts, but DOGE is very much embedded in the Trump administration's war on education. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-03 type: sighting event: >- Twenty DOGE staff are reportedly sighted within the Department of Education and "have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program." notable: true source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/03/trump-education-department-dismantling-executive-order-draft/ fuzz: this number and scope is not verified by court filings, subsequent reporting agency: Education id: RVANetiN - date: 2025-02-(04)~ type: disruption event: >- The head of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) meets with multiple DOGE personnel with her main point of contact being Conor Fennessy. She describes the interactions with DOGE as chaotic and unclear, with many of their requests being filtered down thorugh multiple layers of leadership. named: - Conor Fennessy source: >- https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65603/suddenly-sacked-the-final-days-of-former-nces-chiefs-term-and-the-future-of-education-data agency: Education id: 1ygIjnjT - date: 2025-02-05 type: official event: >- Thomas Flagg, the CIO of the Dept. of Education, sends a memo to the heads of IT that orders them to give DOGE staff prompt access to all systems that they request. notable: true project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277216/gov.uscourts.dcd.277216.32.1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00354 agency: Education id: XcEpneXg - date: 2025-02-06 type: access event: >- The Washington Post reports that DOGE is feeding Department of Education data into an unidentified AI system hosted in Microsoft Azure. project: modernization source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/ agency: Education id: TWfXVB9u - date: 2025-02-08 type: access comment: FIXME get info on the systems being accessed event: >- NBC News reports that Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran have admin access to email at the Department of Education and had also accessed the backend admin for the agency website. project: impunity named: - Akash Bobba - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-doge-team-education-department-rcna191244 agency: Education id: eZDXH8Nq - date: 2025-02-11 type: legal event: >- In a court filing, the Department of Education submitted to a consent decree blocking DOGE from access to systems for processing student financial aid. case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 source: >- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/11/education-dept-doge-musk-court-order/78429043007/ agency: Education id: iG5SW62c - date: 2025-02-13 type: directory event: >- A story on a proposal to use AI at the Department of Education lists several DOGE staffers identified there within the last few weeks. project: modernization named: - Brooks Morgan - Alexandra Beynon - Adam Ramada source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/doge-ai-education-department-students.html agency: Education id: 9GdCongC - date: 2025-02-14 type: disruption project: dei event: >- After a conservative account complained to Musk on Twitter about gender options on the FAFSA form, it was changed the same day. Reportedly, this change was already on the roadmap, but multiple contractors were called in to rush it as an emergency job. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-x-accounts-activists.html agency: Education id: kTJvKegw - date: 2025-02-18 type: legal case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 event: >- A federal judge denied an attempt by _American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al (D. Md.)_ to block DOGE from accessing Department of Education systems related to financial aid. notable: true project: immigration source: >- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/02/18/doge-student-data-education-department-judge-approves/79062995007/ agency: Education id: WTtpPp95 - date: 2025-02-24 type: legal case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 event: >- In a ruling for _American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al (D. Md.)_, a judge declared "DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems of record that contain some of the plaintiffs' most sensitive data - Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability status - and their access to this trove of personal information is ongoing" project: immigration source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/judge-blocks-department-education-federal-personnel-office-sharing-dat-rcna193453 agency: Education id: dFV9to7X - date: 2025-02-24 type: disruption event: >- The head of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is placed on administrative leave and eventually dismissed. She is replaced in the position by Chris Chapman, who is subsequently fired in mass layoffs on March 11th. The agency was leaderless until July 7, when it was added as additional responosibilities for another executive in the Department of Education. notable: true project: - elimination - dei source: >- https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65603/suddenly-sacked-the-final-days-of-former-nces-chiefs-term-and-the-future-of-education-data agency: Education id: 2pPmBjip - date: 2025-03-24 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al_, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against to internal systems at the Departoment of Education by DOGE staff and the Acting Secretary where the justification for access was "the DOGE agenda" (i.e., all of them) case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 project: immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.69.0.pdf agency: Education id: 9nkR2HfU - date: 2025-05-16 type: disruption event: >- GOP proposals that would cut student loans and increase debt collection would require new technical capacity and policy that the Department of Education is unlikely to accomplish after many recent cuts and the elimination of technical staff by DOGE. project: personnel agency: Education source: https://www.chronicle.com/article/on-student-aid-its-congressional-republicans-vs-doge id: 1hnGzvtt - date: 2025-06-09 type: oversight event: >- Senator Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Education urging them to investigate DOGE's "infiltration" of systems and databases related to the Federal Student Aid (FSA) program. source: >- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warren-urges-department-education-ig-investigate-doge-access/story?id=1225562 agency: Education id: 1nfqLpHv - date: 2025-09-10 type: report event: >- A report on the Secretary of Education's visit to an AI-powered private school in Austin named the Alpha School includes a profile and picture of two students whose father is identified as Brooks Morgan. This is likely the same Brooks Morgan who has been working at the Department of Education for DOGE. named: - Brooks Morgan source: >- https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/education-secretary-mcmahon-visits-austin-private-21036830.php agency: Education id: 2g03XBtD - date: 2025-09-19 type: oversight event: >- The Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Education confirms that it will be launching an investigation into DOGE's access to sensitive systems at the agency. source: >- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/department-education-watchdog-probe-doge-access-sensitive-data/story?id=125709030 agency: Education id: 6ZpyHEZ9 - date: 2026-02-02 type: oversight event: >- A new report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office determines that the Trump Administration's attempts to dismantle the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Education have cost the federal government more than $28 million. The Department of Education has been blocked from implementing a reduction in force that would reduce the office to 10% of its former size but it has effectively eliminated civil rights enforcement at the agency. notable: true project: - elimination - dei - impunity source: >- https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5690188/cost-trump-layoffs-civil-rights-complaints-department-education-gao agency: Education id: oo080W89 - name: Department of Energy id: Energy short_name: DOE slug: energy page_slug: energy blurb: >- DOGE has been involved in several efforts by the Trump Administration to "unleash American energy dominance" through aggressive deregulation. These started at the Department of the Interior, which regulates drilling and mining, but DOGE's activities at the Department of Energy have ramped up since a series of executive orders in late May 2025 severely diminished the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Now, the NRC is supposed to rubber stamp the Department of Energy's directives, and the Department of Energy's directive is to reduce regulations and increase support for new nuclear energy startups. blurb_date: 2026-03-26 doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-22 type: disruption event: >- The Department of Energy rescinds 394 pending job offers as part of Trump's hiring freeze. It also removes almost all of its job advertisements. project: personnel agency: Energy source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-the-energy-department-got-doged/ id: NoGHN0nZ - date: 2025-02-07 type: sighting fuzz: Date is approximate and unknown. Report is unconfirmed event: >- DOGE staffers Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada arrive at the Department of Energy and are onboarded.According to Dept. of Energy spokesperson, DOGE staff departed the agency within a few days of arrival, but other reporting suggests they were still active and granted access to sensitive systems in the coming months. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5378684/doge-energy-department-nuclear-secrets-access named: - Luke Farritor - Adam Ramada agency: Energy id: 9ApmChVN - date: 2025-02-10 type: sighting event: >- Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy's online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staffer at the agency. named: - Luke Farritor - Adam Ramada source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/third-doge-official-crops-up-at-energy-department/ agency: Energy id: 7JabZmub - date: 2025-03-13 type: onboard project: impunity event: >- After reportedly supporting DOGE activities in the State Department, Ross Graber is named as the new CIO for the Department of Energy named: - Ross Graber source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/energy-appoints-twitter-google-alum-new-cio/403717/ agency: Energy id: 2nHD9gyo - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- Acting General Counsel David Taggart at the Department of Energy issues a memo stating that all DOGE spreadsheets being used to determine which grants will be cut at the agency should be designated as "legal privilege" documents. This classification is meant to prevent the documents from being shared in legal disclosures or FOIA responses. named: - David Taggart source: https://www.axios.com/pro/energy-policy/2025/03/21/energy-department-memo-doge-cuts project: - spending - impunity agency: Energy id: 4NFT0nBr - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption project: personnel event: >- Employees at the Department of Energy are sent an email offering for them to enroll in a new separate deferred resignation plan. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/federal-layoff-buyout-offers.html agency: Energy id: 6ZDshcKF - date: 2025-04-28 type: offboard project: impunity event: >- Ross Graber abruptly resigns as the CIO of the Department of Energy, making him the second DOGE pick to be named to and exit the role. The responsibilities of CIO are reverted back to the agency's Deputy CIO, who had been serving in the role after Ryan Riedel's departure. named: - Ross Graber source: https://www.meritalk.com/articles/energy-department-cio-graber-resigns-sources-say/ agency: Energy id: 7Erwy5gK - date: 2025-04-28 type: access event: >- Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada reportedly have had accounts for several weeks on systems and networks that handle classified material about nuclear weapons. This contradicts agency reports they had departed the agency within a few days of arrival. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5378684/doge-energy-department-nuclear-secrets-access named: - Luke Farritor - Adam Ramada agency: Energy id: 2ZH8rMfL - date: 2025-08-28 type: disruption event: >- As a direct result of DOGE-driven cuts, the Department of Energy announces that it has to delay a regular report tracking shipments of uranium fuel and completely suspend a report on photovoltaic panels. The department that tracks such reports lost more than 100 people out of its 350-person workforce this year. These reports are not as critical as other Energy reports, but the damage to data collection and reporting is making energy traders nervous. notable: true project: personnel source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/key-us-energy-data-delayed-or-suspended-as-doge-staff-cuts-bite agency: Energy id: 5A3UQf9H - date: 2026-03-30 type: action event: >- The Department of Energy promoted a "milestone test case" where a team at the Department of Energy used AI to convert a safety analysis document into a 208-page license application. The process normally takes 4-6 weeks but was condensed into a single day. project: modernization source: https://fedscoop.com/energy-department-national-labs-ai-nuclear-regulatory-experiment/ agency: Energy id: oavQj5Jz - date: 2026-04-14 type: official event: >- Speaking at an AI conference, Carl Coe states that the Department of Energy will need to request significantly more funding to deliver on its goals for the Genesis Mission AI project. named: - Carl Coe source: https://fedscoop.com/doe-genesis-mission-funding-challenges-aitalks/ project: modernization agency: Energy id: 8VBMDkGo - name: Department of Labor id: DOL short_name: DOL slug: labor page_slug: labor blurb: >- Critics expressed early concern that DOGE's involvement with the Department of Labor was motivated by Elon's desire to shut down unionizing and identify whistleblowers at his companies. However, it seems like DOGE's main interests at DOL have been several databases that track information about immigrants within the US. DOL has also been a handy staging base to deploy wreckers Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi into the field at other agencies. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-04 type: interagency event: >- One of AFGE's members who works in the headquarters of the Department received an instruction from Department leadership that Elon Musk and his DOGE team would be accessing Department of Labor headquarters beginning around 4 p.m. on February 5, 2025. This member and other employees were told by Department leadership that when Mr. Musk and his team visit, they are to do whatever they ask, not to push back, not to ask questions. They were told to provide access to any DOL system they requested access to and not to worry about any security protocols; "just do it." notable: true project: impunity interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Elon Musk source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.29.8_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: DOL id: NseepQVk - date: 2025-02-05 type: sighting event: DOGE staff are given access to several unspecified Department of Labor IT systems. source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/elon-musk-doge-labor-department-protest agency: DOL id: by9TUmm6 - date: 2025-02-13 type: access project: impunity event: >- DOGE staffers granted authorization to use a SQL client for databases file transfer software at Department of Labor, alarming cybersecurity staff that it could be used to remove data. The staffers named are Sam Beyda, Derek Geissler, Cole Killian, Adam Ramada and Jordan Wick. named: - Sam Beyda - Derek Geissler - Cole Killian - Adam Ramada - Jordan Wick source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583 agency: DOL id: Laig7UCK - date: 2025-03-05 type: onboard source: https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-staffer-fertility-clinic-pronatalist-department-of-labor event: >- Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor. named: - Marko Elez - Aram Moghaddassi - Miles Collins agency: DOL id: j66RVh4p - date: 2025-03-18 type: report event: >- Notes from a meeting at DOL about DOGE access state "they do not have write access. They have asked; we've held them at bay. We've tried to get them to tell us what they want & then we do it. They only have read access" notable: true project: impunity agency: DOL source: https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/ id: nVYe38Fq - date: 2025-03-19 type: report project: impunity event: >- Marko Elez affirms he has completed his mandatory privacy training at the Department of Labor. This would normally be required before any system access, but he has been at the agency for several weeks. named: - Marko Elez source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: DOL id: QL984GQg - date: 2025-03-20 type: official event: >- Trump issues an executive order EO 14243 which explicitly includes an instruction that "the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary's designees shall receive, to the maximum extent consistent with law, unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including all such data and records currently available to the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General." project: - impunity - immigration source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ agency: DOL id: Hh8waXmD - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption event: >- In his new role as CIO for the Department of Labor, Thomas Shedd announces goals to reduce the department by 30% through resignations and layoffs. He also claims that DOGE is not "tracking" staff at the agency, and that all changes will be determined by focusing on results. notable: true project: - personnel named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-cio-labor-it-office-resignations/ agency: DOL id: 5nELASFP - date: 2025-04-18 type: disruption event: >- Multiple federal staffers who handle sensitive data related to migrant workers are placed on leave for raising objections about DOGE gaining access to those data systems to target that population for arrest and deportation. notable: true project: - impunity - immigration source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/labor-department-sidelines-staff-doge-immigrant-data-00299298 agency: DOL id: Sgw2gk7i - date: 2025-05-07 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff at the Department of Labor terminate more than two dozen grants to increase the representation of women in trades like construction, manufacturing and IT, as well as to combat gender-based violence and discrimination. DOGE later brags about it on its X account. notable: true project: dei source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/doge-womens-grant-construction-manufacturing-cancelled/ fuzz: She's not named, but I am linking Bridget Youngs since she claims she was reviewing grants at DOL linked: - Bridget Youngs agency: DOL id: 4TtqY3FX - date: 2025-05-09 type: action event: >- A glimpse of Luke Farritor's visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a Microsoft Teams meeting with Thomas Shedd (the acting CIO and fellow GSA employee) as well as another DOL staffer to discuss grants to the agency. agency: DOL project: spending named: - Luke Farritor - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/ id: 1V9UXySS - date: 2025-06-25 type: disruption event: >- Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, expresses public concerns that DOGE-directed staffing cuts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have started to affect the quality of economic data used for forecasting and decisions. In a recent survey on prices, the rate of imputed prices jumped from 10% to 30% due to staffing shortfalls. notable: true agency: DOL source: >- https://www.businessinsider.com/econmic-data-jerome-powell-bls-labor-market-inflation-cpi-economy-2025-6 id: 6McXgDX4 - date: 2025-07-29 type: disruption event: >- The Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that it will have to significantly curtail its data collection for the Consumer Price Index due to staffing and resource reductions. This will result in the CPI no longer including certain products or surveying several metro areas. This triggers concerns among some economists, since the CPI is one of the factors that determines how the Federal Reserve sets interest rates or how Social Security determines cost-of-living increases. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/business/bls-data-collection-cuts-cpi.html agency: DOL id: 1HJN4n7p - date: 2025-08-01 type: disruption event: >- The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a monthly jobs report for June that radically revises down the previously released estimates for May and June by roughly 80-90% compared to prior estimates, shocking economists and Wall Street. This downward revision could reflect issues in data collection or that the economy is entering a recession. Angry at what he calls "rigged" numbers, Trump fires the head of the BLS. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/economy/trump-bls-firing-jobs-report.html agency: DOL id: 6sSp29Fa - date: 2025-08-01 type: offboard event: >- Thomas Shedd ends his role as the temporary CIO at the Department of Labor. It is unclear who will be filling the role next. source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/thomas-shedd-departs-labor-cio/407195/ named: - Thomas Shedd agency: DOL id: 24W8zVQW - name: Department of the Treasury id: Treasury short_name: Treas. slug: treasury page_slug: treasury doge_base: true blurb: "One of DOGE's overarching projects has been to [seize control of federal spending](/projects/spending-control/), so it makes sense that DOGE would try to infiltrate the Bureau of the Fiscal Service with Department of the Treasury from the start. This is highly-sensitive data to entrust to a few rogue engineers, so there have been a number of high-profile court cases that attempted to forestall and limit DOGE's access. Unfortunately, DOGE has prevailed and has also increased its access to the highly-sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS in order to support DOGE's efforts to build a total surveillance system for immigrants. " events: - date: 2025-01-08 type: official event: >- The leader of the Trump transition team for the Treasury Department sends an email requesting that Thomas Krause be incuded on the "day 1 team, to lead on Fiscal Services modernization efforts." project: modernization named: - Tom Krause source: >- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.48.1.pdf#page=13 case_no: 1:25-cv-00313 agency: Treasury id: UsAfrk26 - date: 2025-01-28 type: access event: >- Marko Elez is provided with a laptop from Treasury with with copies of the source code for the PAM, SPS, and ASAP systems in a separate, secure coding environment known as a "secure code repository" or "sandbox." notable: true named: - Marko Elez source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.27.3_1.pdf case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 agency: Treasury id: hRNeze4y - date: 2025-02-04 type: oversight event: >- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent writes a letter to Congress about Tom Krause having read-only access but doesn't mention Marko Elez in his letter. named: - Tom Krause source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/ agency: Treasury id: cYi6UvfL - date: 2025-02-06 type: legal event: >- Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issues a ruling stating that DOGE should be granted only read access to government systems at Treasury. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.12.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00313 agency: Treasury id: jym62UJR - date: 2025-02-06 type: offboard event: >- After the _Wall Street Journal_ reported on a series of racist tweets from his account, Marko Elez resigned from his position at DOGE. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury agency: Treasury id: 5NwRFYL0 - date: 2025-02-10 type: disruption event: >- A legal affadavit states a BFS payment was presented to the State Department as one to not process after it was reviewed by DOGE staff at Treasury. project: - fraud source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/11/doge-treasury-access-marko-elez/ agency: Treasury id: 3GDPSTGi - date: 2025-02-11 type: access event: >- A legal affadavit from a Treasury employee states that Marko Elez was accidentally given edit access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems but that he did not use it. named: - Marko Elez source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/11/doge-treasury-access-marko-elez/ agency: Treasury id: imugC2ds - date: 2025-02-19 type: official event: >- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says only one person from DOGE is "looking at an outdated IT system, that's all they're doing." Given that Marko Elez had resigned, this is likely a reference to Ryan Wunderly. project: modernization linked: - Ryan Wunderly source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/bessent-says-doge-effort-has-saved-estimated-50-billion-so-far agency: Treasury id: g9AZFmPH - date: 2025-02-20 type: onboard event: >- John York, a senior counselor to Bessent, wrote in a sworn statement that Ryan Wunderly would take over Marko Elez's work at the BFS. named: - Marko Elez - Ryan Wunderly source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/treasury-irs-data-white-house-doge-00205391 agency: Treasury id: 8RFcA4gh - date: 2025-03-24 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al_, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against DOGE access to internal systems at the Departoment of the Treasury where the justification for access was "the DOGE agenda" (i.e., all of them) named: - Tom Krause - Ryan Wunderly source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.69.0.pdf case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 agency: Treasury id: Z7E6ai2u - date: 2025-03-25 type: official event: >- President Trump issues an executive order mandating that all payments flow through Treasury and that agencies must modify SORNs to share data with Treasury as "routine use" source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/ agency: Treasury id: kqJsJLcA - date: 2025-04-11 type: directory event: >- In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.61.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00313 named: - Tom Krause - Todd Newnam - Ryan Wunderly - Linda Whitridge - Sam Corcos - Gavin Kliger agency: Treasury id: hRNyXeoy - date: 2025-04-12 type: legal event: >- Judge Vargas rules in _New York et al vs. Donald Trump_ that Ryan Wunderly should be granted access to Treasury systems. named: - Ryan Wunderly case_no: 1:25-cv-01144 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.139.0.pdf agency: Treasury id: 7AvfSN6g - date: 2025-04-18 type: onboard event: >- A new DOGE staffer (Roland Shen) who works for the payments startup Ramp is reportedly also granted access to BFS systems. named: - Roland Shen source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rampin-up-baby-that-thiel-start-up-hunting-the-motherlode-contract-is-inside-treasury/ar-AA1DesOc agency: Treasury id: 85e3G4Rn - date: 2025-05-26 type: legal event: "Judge Vargas, ruling in _New York v. Donald Trump_ lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures. " source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.156.0.pdf linked: - Tom Krause - Linda Whitridge - Sam Corcos - Todd Newnam - Ryan Wunderly case_no: 1:25-cv-01144 agency: Treasury id: onhIeTZy - date: 2025-06-06 type: offboard event: >- Tom Krause resigns his position at Treasury and exits government service, according to an email that he sent to employees at the Cloud Software Group, the company which he was simultaneously running. He departed Treasury a month before his SGE status would have required him to leave. named: - Tom Krause agency: Treasury source: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/citrix-parent-ceo-krause-leaves-doge-us-treasury-post id: 3suHuULH - date: 2026-04-28 type: oversight event: >- The Government Accountability Office releases a report detailing its investigation into DOGE's system access at the Treasury Department. It found that the agency did not properly follow all of its requirements for security training and controls before granting access. It only covers DOGE activities by Tom Krause and Marko Elez at the agency and does not investigate later staff assigned to the agency. source: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108131/index.html agency: Treasury id: 4E3KdUOk - name: Department of Transportation id: DOT short_name: DOT slug: dot page_slug: transportation doge_base: true blurb: >- DOGE became embedded early at the DOT, due to criticism of the FAA in the wake of a deadly air collision outside of National Airport. While Secretary Sean Duffy had been an early advocate of DOGE, recent reports described him as screaming at Elon Musk about the damage caused by DOGE's rampant firing of probationary workers and pushing the Fork in the Road. An already understaffed cohort of air-traffic controllers has been pushed to the breaking point, and it's DOGE's fault. Meanwhile, potential interference to redirect a communications contract to Starlink has astounded ethics experts for its audacity. events: [] - name: Environmental Protection Agency id: EPA short_name: EPA slug: epa page_slug: epa blurb: >- Long vilified by conservatives as the face of the regulatory state, the Environmental Protection Agency was of course one of DOGE's early targets. DOGE's main activities at the agency have been focused on reducing the agency's effectiveness through layoffs and eliminating contracts. I would expect they will also turn to eliminating regulations, but their activities at the agency have not been heavily covered. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-04 type: sighting event: >- Cole Killian appears in an EPA internal directory as a "Federal Detailee" (under his legal name Gautier Killian). named: - Cole Killian source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-aide-pops-up-in-epa-staff-directory/ agency: EPA id: EP9BFiD7 - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption project: personnel event: >- 168 employees who worked on environmental justice at the EPA are placed on indefinite administrative leave. source: >- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/02/07/epas-environmental-justice-office-in-tatters-00203091 agency: EPA id: 4ufoGsXw - date: 2025-02-11 type: disruption event: >- Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message. project: spending named: - Kathryn Armstrong Loving - Cole Killian source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/legal-docs-show-doge-at-work-inside-epa/ agency: EPA id: 47eCWG67 - date: 2025-02-14 type: disruption event: 388 probationary employees are fired at the EPA. project: personnel source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-pushes-out-almost-500-probationary-employees/ agency: EPA id: Keg9aWVE - date: 2025-03-03 type: disruption agency: EPA project: impunity event: >- The EPA takes its staff directory offline after it had been used to identify new political appointees and DOGE staffers that were detailed to the agency. source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-takes-down-its-staff-directory/ id: hZZSlAHP - date: 2025-03-04 type: official event: >- Erica Jehling pushes for the cancellation of 21 grants at the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials, so that she can post a tweet on the EPA X.com account to celebrate it. She cc's Kathryn Armstrong Loving on her emails coordinating the cancellations. notable: true project: spending named: - Erica Jehling - Kathryn Armstrong Loving agency: EPA source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.scd.301710/gov.uscourts.scd.301710.109.2_2.pdf case_no: 2:25-cv-02152 id: 4Yfmasz5 - date: 2025-03-27 type: interagency event: >- The EPA administrator's public calendar includes a "Meeting w/ Elon Musk West Wing 221" at 6:30pm. Musk reportedly did not attend. interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: Elon Musk agency: EPA source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/zeldin-schedule-shows-doge-huddle-mobile-van-media-hits/ id: 6oE47sYI - date: 2025-04-08 type: report event: >- Employees at the EPA report being told by Trump-appointed officials that DOGE was using AI to monitor communication tools (including Microsoft Teams) for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language. notable: true project: - modernization - personnel source: >- https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/ agency: EPA id: XsVQoQhn - date: 2025-05-02 type: official event: Carl Coe, the leader of the DOGE team at the EPA, is named as the Chief of Staff at the EPA. named: - Carl Coe source: https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-new-leadership-tackle-challenges-growing-energy-demand agency: EPA id: 6JGAVDbu - date: 2025-06-30 type: report event: >- More than 270 employees at the EPA sign a public letter condemning the Trump administration and agency head Lee Zeldin for politicizing the agency and dismantling its effectiveness. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/climate/epa-employees-warning-letter.html agency: EPA id: RWByC6oC - date: 2025-07-03 type: disruption event: >- The Environmental Protection Agency places 144 employees on administrative leave and threatens to open an investigation over them signing an open letter criticizing the agency's actions. project: personnel source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/climate/epa-letter-administrative-leave.html agency: EPA id: 6ZRvs4q6 - date: 2026-03-12 type: oversight event: >- The Inspector General for the EPA releases a report faulting the agency for firing too much of its workforce so that it is unable to handle the growing backlog of grants. The Trump administration countered that there should be a complementary reduction in grants to match, but that has not happened so far. notable: true project: - spending - personnel source: >- https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/03/epa-says-it-will-slash-workload-after-ig-flags-slashed-workforce-overburdened/412100/ agency: EPA id: 78dyWhBs - name: Executive Office of the President id: EOP short_name: EOP slug: eop page_slug: white-house blurb: |- One of the challenging thing about tracking reporting about DOGE is that DOGE itself is purposefully vague by design. When it's time for them to threaten an agency or demand control over their systems, then it's a firmly defined entity backed by the authority of Elon Musk and also the President. When it's time to handle pesky reporters or legal discovery demands, it's just a vague concept located somewhere within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). DOGE itself is also hard to define, since it can be used interchangably to mean: - The DOGE Temporary Organization/USDS entity within the White House - Staff that have been detailed to other agencies from DOGE specifically - Staff that are detailed from other agencies besides DOGE (see [The Wreckers](/people/wreckers) for what this means) who are taking direction from DOGE leadership - Staff hired at other agencies who are following DOGE's aims. DOGE has attempted to use this ambiguity in legal cases (for instance, not reporting the activities Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin on behalf of DOGE at the CFPB, because technically they worked for the GSA), and media can sometimes be very imprecise as well. So, when an article reports a new person at an agency is from DOGE, does that mean they report to the White House or were detailed from there? It can be hard to figure out. As a result, this page has a large amount of ambiguity within. Not only does it include people working for DOGE who might not be. It is also a muddled mix of various White House-affiliated staff, including people assigned directly to DOGE and people who work elsewhere in the White House. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-06-XX type: official event: >- The White House Presidential Personnel Office contacts DOGE leads across the government to inform them that Steve Davis is no longer an employee of DOGE and they should cease all contact with him. fuzz: Not named, but linking to Trent Morse, since this is his office. linked: - Trent Morse agency: EOP source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 id: 2F23z1OO - name: Export-Import Bank of the United States id: EXIM short_name: EXIM slug: exim page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-05-14 type: sighting event: >- Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US. named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Donald Park source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lp5iwrmfv22y agency: EXIM id: 7W6wi7FV - name: Federal Aviation Administration id: FAA short_name: FAA slug: faa page_slug: transportation parent_id: DOT events: - date: 2025-02-05 type: report event: >- Elon Musk promises that DOGE will make rapid upgrades to airline systems after outage of NOTAM alerting system occur. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-faa.html agency: FAA id: B2KmL6YV - date: 2025-02-10 type: official event: >- The NOTAM system at the FAA has its name changed from Notice to Air Missions back to its original name of Notice to Airmen. source: https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/notam/what_is_a_notam agency: FAA id: 8SF6gwbi - date: 2025-02-17 type: directory event: >- Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX. named: - Ted Malaska - Sam Smeal - Brady Glantz - Thomas Kiernan source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-05/after-elon-musk-lands-at-faa-his-starlink-business-stands-to-gain-business agency: FAA id: PK8kSwx7 - date: 2025-02-18 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staffer Ted Malaska (one of the 4 detailed from SpaceX) declares that SpaceX is the only company able to complete a communications network contract already awarded to Verizon. He also threatens to report the names of anybody blocking his work directly to Musk. notable: true project: impunity named: - Ted Malaska source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-05/after-elon-musk-lands-at-faa-his-starlink-business-stands-to-gain-business agency: FAA id: c2uFcNGD - date: 2025-04-25 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named "Project Lift," requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects. notable: true project: impunity linked: - Ted Malaska - Sam Smeal - Brady Glantz - Thomas Kiernan source: >- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-faa-nda-secret-project-lift-1235325667/ agency: FAA id: kTuTZoGk - date: 2025-06-02 type: offboard event: >- In the wake of Elon Musk's exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team. notable: true named: - Ted Malaska - Thomas Kiernan - Sam Smeal - Brady Glantz source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/08/doge-elon-musk-exit-trump/ agency: FAA id: 79WjZ5I5 - name: Federal Bureau of Investigation id: FBI short_name: FBI slug: fbi page_slug: justice parent_id: DOJ doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-29 type: sighting event: >- An unidentified former SpaceX employee [later confirmed to be Justin Monroe] is reported to be working as an advisor to the Director of the FBI named_aliases: - FBI-01 source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/people-ties-musk-top-fbi-critic-are-advising-fbi-director-rcna189567 agency: FBI id: gBSE6bzh - name: Federal Election Commission id: FEC short_name: FEC slug: fec page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-04-30 type: disruption event: >- FEC staffers receive an email stating they will be required to send daily updates of their location as part of a new Daily Occupancy Tool that will possibly be rolled out later across the entire government by the GSA. project: personnel source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/30/return-to-office-track-federal-office-occupancy/ agency: FEC id: 7BDIH39X - name: Federal Emergency Management Agency id: FEMA short_name: FEMA slug: fema parent_id: DHS page_slug: homeland-security doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-11 type: disruption project: spending event: >- The Chief Financial Officer of FEMA, Mary Comans, is abruptly fired and her departure is announced in a FEMA press release. source: >- https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/publicly-and-falsely-condemned-fired-fema-official-sues-trump-admin-for-unlawful-termination-and-prompting-smear-campaign-to-make-her-look-like-a-criminal/ agency: FEMA id: Rw5dRRNx - date: 2025-02-(11)~ type: disruption event: >- In a meeting, Kyle Schutt asks FEMA staff about the viability of deobligating appropriated funds for the agency, in essence returning the money to Treasury rather than using it for its appropriated purpose. project: spending named: - Kyle Schutt source: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/doge-fema-funding-access-social-security-numbers agency: FEMA id: 1iZdpSmW - date: 2025-07-08 type: disruption event: >- Funds for FEMA's Shelter and Services Program (SSP) normally used for disaster relief are redirected to instead provide $608.4 million to ICE for the construction of an immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades. This amount is only slightly smaller than the entire 2025 budget for the program, which has only $83.5 million in reserve for this fiscal year. Possibly, DOGE aide Kyle Schutt might have assisted in finding money by deobligating other grants. project: spending notable: true linked: - Kyle Schutt source: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/alligator-alcatraz-funding-fema-ice agency: FEMA id: 2esiCrAm - date: 2025-07-10 type: disruption event: >- As predicted by experts, the newly created process that mandates that all contracts above $100,000 must be reviewed and approved by agency head Kristi Noem delayed the ability of FEMA to proactively respond to disastrous flash flooding in central Texas. For instance, FEMA could not get approval to stage Search and Rescue teams in the area before the disaster. The agency also was unable to approve additional staff for outreach and responding to calls from affected Americans. project: spending notable: true agency: - FEMA source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fema-texas-flood-noem id: cbMdgMEs - date: 2025-07-22 type: disruption event: >- The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue unit resigns, protesting that the new cost controls created by DOGE and Kristi Noem is causing chaos inside of the agency and will lead to deadly delays during a disaster. project: spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/fema-urban-search-rescue-chief-resigns.html agency: FEMA id: 1qDeUmVY - date: 2025-08-25 type: disruption event: >- More than 190 current and former FEMA employees sign their name to a public letter on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, criticizing agency leadership for destroying the capabilities of the agency and violating the requirements of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006. While most were anonymous, 35 employees gave their real names and were immediately placed on administrative leave under investigation. Due to DOGE and Kristi Noem's clamp-down on spending, the agency has more than $700 million in disaster funding that is still to be approved. In addition, a third of the agency's staff had departed by May, reducing the capacity and institutional wisdom of the agency to respond to disasters. source: https://www.wired.com/story/fema-funding-dhs-agency-punishment/ agency: FEMA id: 1Zguv7BS - name: Federal Housing Finance Agency id: FHFA short_name: FHFA slug: fhfa page_slug: housing events: [] - name: Federal Communications Commission id: FCC short_name: FCC slug: fcc page_slug: independent#regs doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-03-18 type: onboard event: >- Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are onboarded at the FCC. Jordan and Jacob are detailees while Tarak is listed as a consultant offering his services for free. source: https://frequencyfwd.com/files/motion-exhibit-1-08252025.pdf agency: FCC id: 20cqZoQi - date: 2025-04-01 type: action event: >- Jordan Wick sends a data file of FCC orders to the Chief Counsel to review. In response, the counsel says "I have a quasi-personal FCC data issue I’d love to discuss over lunch (on me)." named: - Jordan Wick agency: FCC source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379171-fcc-foia-production-3-for-frequency-forward/ id: FAkPvc8R - date: 2025-04-04 type: sighting event: >- Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC. named: - Tarak Makecha - Jordan Wick - Jacob Altik source: https://www.theverge.com/news/644031/doge-federal-communications-commission-directory agency: FCC id: FTRMb3dA - date: 2025-04-28 type: action event: >- Jordan Wick sends an email to the FCC General Counsel asking for data on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews for cell phone tower installations. He then asks to meet with a technical contributor about the feasibility of adding a new feature to their review tracking software. Narrowing environmental review is a Trump administration priority. project: deregulation named: - Jordan Wick agency: FCC source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379171-fcc-foia-production-3-for-frequency-forward/ id: 4sMjNqRN - date: 2025-08-26 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _Burleigh v. FCC_, Judge Amy Berman Jackson denies a preliminary injunction that would compel the FCC to make all documents about DOGE activities available for FOIA by October 10th. Nevertheless, the judge ordered DOGE to provide more details on its activities at the agency, expressing concern at the skimpy 35 pages of documentation that the agency had provided so far. project: impunity source: >- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/judge-unhappy-with-fccs-vague-and-uninformative-response-to-doge-lawsuit/ agency: FCC id: 6hskWxfd - name: Federal Deposit Insurance Commission id: FDIC short_name: FDIC slug: fdic page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-04-10 type: sighting event: >- Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada and Anthony Armstrong visit the FDIC headquarters. Their arrival is later confirmed for staff with an email stating they have not been granted access to any sensitive bank information. notable: true named: - Brooks Morgan - Adam Ramada - Anthony Armstrong source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/doge-fdic agency: FDIC id: NqCoVaS5 - name: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service id: FMCS short_name: FMCS slug: fmcs page_slug: independent#eo2 events: [] - name: Federal Trade Commission id: FTC short_name: FTC slug: ftc page_slug: independent#regs doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-04-04 type: sighting project: spending event: >- Axios reports that Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant have started work at the FTC, looking at grants and contracts at the agency. named: - Gavin Kliger - Emily Bryant source: https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/04/doge-staffers-move-into-ftc-office agency: FTC id: GoJrDRSQ - name: Food and Drug Administration id: FDA short_name: FDA slug: fda parent_id: HHS page_slug: health doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-17 type: disruption project: - impunity - personnel event: The head of the medical device safety division at the FDA is fired amid mass layoffs notable: true source: https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/18/fda-trump-musk-doge-cuts-ross-segan-memo-medical-device-safety/ agency: FDA id: BazoqSxG - date: 2025-02-17 type: disruption project: personnel event: >- The head of the FDA's food safety division resigns to protest 89 employees being indiscriminately fired in the division. notable: true source: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5152084-fdas-food-safety-head-resigns/ agency: FDA id: RwfpHkqq - date: 2025-02-(25)~ type: sighting fuzz: date is just given as late February and early March for meetings event: >- FDA staff conduct a meeting to provide a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor, the new CIO for HHS. named: - Clark Minor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208.1.0_3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01750 agency: FDA id: 7DxqpdGT - date: 2025-03-21 type: disruption event: >- Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA as well as regular status updates on the data collection. Because the FDA CIO was out of office at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own opinions. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy. project: personnel source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208.1.0_3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01750 agency: FDA id: 1eyYnqUY - date: 2025-03-31 type: sighting event: >- A group of DOGE representatives visit the FDA offices in Maryland. As one employee was leaving, a car pulled up with its window down and a young man in a suit shouted at her “This is DOGE and this is your Last Supper!” She received a RIF termination letter the next day. notable: true project: personnel source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208.1.0_3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01750 agency: FDA id: 7Nd2caJk - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- HHS terminates a large number of staff at FDA in the name of cost savings and realignment, the same day as the new head of FDA is sworn in to office. project: - personnel source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-federal-layoffs-health-food.html agency: FDA id: GyTAGKsQ - date: 2025-04-21 type: disruption event: >- IT staff at FSA report they were heavily targeted for layoffs despite complying with requests to provide information about critical systems, meaning much more of the FDA infrastructure is at risk of failure project: - personnel - impunity source: >- https://fedscoop.com/fda-tech-officials-complied-with-doges-requests-for-data-the-staff-reductions-still-came/ agency: FDA id: 34MikyKs - date: 2025-05-07 type: report event: >- Representatives from OpenAI are reported to have met with several DOGE associates at the FDA to discuss using AI for drug evaluation work. notable: true project: modernization source: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fda-doge-ai-drug-evaluation/ agency: FDA id: RXwHP9h5 - date: 2025-06-16 type: disruption event: >- Citing "heavy workload and limited resources," the FDA informs a drug manufacturer that it will be unable to meet a deadline to approve a new drug to treat a life-threatening hereditary condition. This is a first-time event for the agency, and some suggest it's a direct result of DOGE-directed staff reductions at the FDA. notable: true project: - personnel source: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/doge-cuts-fda-delay-angioedema-drug agency: FDA id: fIZjw7yF - date: 2025-07-15 type: report event: >- As an example of one of the many ways that DOGE's simplistic cost-cutting can have downstream effects, IPOs for biotech startups have dramatically slowed this year with many companies expressing concern that the reduced capacity of a diminished FDA will significantly affect their businesses. agency: FDA source: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/doge-cuts-fda-hhs-biotech id: 2HgIdWJJ - name: General Services Administration id: GSA short_name: GSA slug: gsa page_slug: self blurb: >- Once a relatively obscure agency that provided shared services and procurement services for the government, GSA became an integral part of DOGE's early-phase plans for taking over parts of the federal bureaucracy precisely for those reasons. From the very first day of the Trump presidency, DOGE established a sizable team at GSA. Some of these were focused on drastic cost-reduction efforts like cancelling government leases or unilaterally dropping the purchasing limit of government purchase cards to curtail micro-purchases by government staff. GSA was also the base for many of DOGE's wrecking crews that were detailed to other agencies, with agency leadership quickly creating a walled-off enclave protected by security guards exclusively for the use of DOGE staff with "A-level access." doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-20 type: onboard event: >- Stephen Ehikian is sworn in as the Acting Administrator of the GSA. This move allows the administration to avoid a confirmation process for the role. notable: true source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gsa-announces-new-fas-tts-leadership/402485/ named: - Stephen Ehikian agency: GSA id: 8CVj0JL8 - date: 2025-01-(22)~ type: disruption event: >- Nate Cavanaugh testifies he started working formally for DOGE a few days after the inauguration. He says his first project was a team effort to create an org chart of government agencies. This project evetually became live on the DOGE website. He does not identify who else worked on it. named: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-2.pdf agency: GSA id: 4rehujji - date: 2025-01-23 type: sighting event: >- A GSA employee reports meeting Kyle Schutt and Ethan Shaotran and also bumping into Edward Coristine. They are described as being giddy and interested and curious and then shifting in tone the following week with DOGE staff "frantically running around trying to do impossible shit with no context and no flexibility and no ability to push back." named: - Ethan Shaotran - Kyle Schutt - Edward Coristine source: https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/ agency: GSA id: 4T896eWA - date: 2025-01-24 type: onboard event: >- Thomas Shedd is named as the new head of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), the parent organization of 18F as well as shared services like Login.gov. He reports to Josh Gruenbaum, who is also appointed on this day as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner. notable: true source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gsa-announces-new-fas-tts-leadership/402485/ agency: GSA id: 5TxZ48qN - date: 2025-01-27 type: action event: >- Riley Sennott and Brooks Morgan arrive to a meeting/work at GSA before they are officially hired in DOGE. They are signed in and possibly meet with Derek Geissler and Adam Ramada named: - Riley Sennott - Brooks Morgan - Adam Ramada - Derek Geissler source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 3I8CBw5p - date: 2025-01-29 type: report event: >- A team of high-ranking GSA employees meets with Nicole Hollander to discuss building special "resting rooms" for DOGE and other A-suite staff. notable: true project: impunity source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/ named: - Nicole Hollander agency: GSA id: 54gGXtvR - date: 2025-01-29 type: disruption event: >- GSA regional managers receive instructions from HQ that "lease terminations are the clear priority at this time." project: spending named: - Nicole Hollander agency: GSA source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26 id: 3rNhg30Y - date: 2025-01-30 type: sighting event: >- Joe Gebbia arrives at GSA for a meeting with unnamed staff. This is likely to interview for a position at DOGE. named: - Joe Gebbia source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 5FyMMWNz - date: 2025-01-30 type: action event: Jordan Wick and Nate Cavanaugh visit GSA to meet with Thomas Shedd and possibly others. named: - Thomas Shedd - Jordan Wick - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 3dZK8KpX - date: 2025-01-30 type: interagency event: >- Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor. source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/musk-visits-and-asserts-growing-influence-gsa/402628/ interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Elon Musk GSA: - Steve Davis - Nicole Hollander - Thomas Shedd - Stephen Ehikian - Luke Farritor agency: GSA id: kSAAPBQJ - date: 2025-01-31 type: directory event: >- Wired reports that DOGE staff are attempting to get elevated access to GSA systems and making changes to office arrangements to create a special reserved floor for their staff with a security guard checking names. project: impunity named: - Nicole Hollander - Steve Davis - Thomas Shedd - Edward Coristine - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/ agency: GSA id: bfo6pJUH - date: 2025-02-04 type: sighting event: >- Jordan Wick, Nate Cavanaugh and Frederik Lohner are signed in at GSA. Nate Cavanaugh should have been officially hired already, and Jordan Wich is detailed to GSA at some point, so it's unclear why they signed in. named: - Jordan Wick - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 3JD8e9Wh - date: 2025-02-06 type: sighting event: Nate Cavanaugh and Frederik Lohner show up at GSA and are signed into the building by Thomas Shedd named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 4Eir0Nu2 - date: 2025-02-08 type: sighting event: >- Luke Farritor hosts a contingent of other DOGE staffers -- Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi and Riley Sennott -- to work at GSA on a Saturday. Notably, this is a day after Marko Elez had resigned his position (but was secretly hired at DOGE) and Riley Sennott had not formally started his role at GSA yet. named: - Luke Farritor - Aram Moghaddassi - Marko Elez - Riley Sennott source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 6O4h1spi - date: 2025-02-09 type: sighting event: >- DOGE members Baris Akis, Katrine Trampe, Jordan Wick and Riley Sennott are signed in to work at GSA headquarters on a Sunday. It's unclear if they are there for a meeting or just to use the DOGE working space inside of GSA. They are hosted at the building by Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Ethan Shaotran. named: - Baris Akis - Katrine Trampe - Jordan Wick - Riley Sennott - Thomas Shedd - Stephen Ehikian source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 1vyJEfhX - date: 2025-02-10 type: disruption event: >- Unnamed DOGE staff using non-governmental Google accounts conduct "touch-base" interviews with dozens of US Digital Corps fellows, under the direction of Thomas Shedd. notable: true project: personnel named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-sessions-gsa-staff-probationary-terminations/ agency: GSA id: MVeUVFvr - date: 2025-02-12 type: disruption event: >- GSA technical staff describe also being subjected to 15-minute interviews where they felt they were asked to justify their jobs. project: personnel source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/government-workers-doge-interviews-016214 agency: GSA id: 68sytFDv - date: 2025-02-12 type: disruption event: >- Dozens of probationary workers within the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) are fired, with many of the cuts focused on the US Digital Corps and Presidential Innovation Fellows programs notable: true project: personnel source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/02/gsa-cut-least-100-employees-feds-inside-agency-say/402975/ agency: GSA id: dSVh8kxF - date: 2025-02-18 type: disruption event: >- A GSA employee reportedly resigned rather than give unrestricted admin access for the SMS emergency notification service Notify.gov to Thomas Shedd. project: impunity named: - Thomas Shedd source: >- https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/ agency: GSA id: Lcina8tE - date: 2025-02-(18)~ type: sighting event: ProPublica reports that Frank Schuler has appeared in the GSA directory. fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article named: - Frank Schuler source: https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam agency: GSA id: NPiTTC4b - date: 2025-02-(18)~ type: sighting event: Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh. fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article named: - Frank Schuler - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam agency: GSA id: j9cDuFZd - date: 2025-02-19 type: disruption event: >- Thomas Shedd has allegedly requested admin access to 19 different systems within TTS at GSA. It is unusual for agency leadership to have such access, especially for systems that contain sensitive information. notable: true project: impunity named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ agency: GSA id: BBGTRSgD - date: 2025-02-25 type: action event: >- GSA reportedly spending $25,000 to install a washer and dryer near a makeshift sleeping area occupied by DOGE. source: >- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/doges-controversial-office-culture-ikea-beds-and-secret-sleeping-spaces-among-federal-staff/articleshow/118782925.cms agency: GSA id: c3p8qCiA - date: 2025-02-26 type: disruption event: >- Without issuaing any warning, GSA puts a $1 spending limit on all government purchase cards following an executive order by Trump. This predictably creates a large amount of chaos by destroying the ability of agencies to do micro-purchases allowed by law. notable: true project: spending source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/09/doge-government-credit-card-limits agency: GSA id: mVDCRqG7 - date: 2025-03-01 type: disruption event: >- TTS administrator Thomas Shedd eliminates 90 members of 18F with a firing email sent at 1:00 AM in the morning and immediately locks them out of their machines. notable: true project: - personnel - elimination named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/ agency: GSA id: oCmLwiJu - date: 2025-03-01 type: disruption event: Hours after the staff is hit with the RIF email, the DNS entry for 18F.gsa.gov is removed source: https://18f.gsa.gov/ project: elimination agency: GSA id: R36jiNmY - date: 2025-03-03 type: sighting event: >- Adam Hoffman visits GSA for a meeting (likely a job interview). He is signed in to the agency by Edward Coristine. named: - Adam Hoffman - Edward Coristine source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 4Nfji2Ha - date: 2025-03-04 type: directory source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/ event: >- Wired reports that some DOGE staff (Kyle Schutt, Nate Cavanaugh) are being paid as full-time GSA employees, but other staff are listed as volunteers for that agency. named: - Kyle Schutt - Nate Cavanaugh - Edward Coristine - Ethan Shaotran - Luke Farritor - Derek Geissler - Nicole Hollander agency: GSA id: MaJRwgfZ - date: 2025-03-06 type: disruption event: >- TTS Commissioner Thomas Shedd says in a statement that he expects the Technology Transformation Service will be 50% smaller within weeks. project: - personnel named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/gsa-chat-doge-ai/681987/ agency: GSA id: J7wz934t - date: 2025-03-07 type: report event: DOGE rolls out a custom GSAi custom chatbot in a trial for 1500 workers. source: https://www.wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1500-federal-workers/ agency: GSA id: dadXjzXN - date: 2025-03-13 type: oversight event: 46 former GSA executives write an open letter decrying the damage that DOGE has done to the agency. source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/03/letter-to-the-editor-46-former-gsa-executives-say-cuts-to-cause-irreversible-damage/?readmore=1 agency: GSA id: HmeSHoe6 - date: 2025-03-19 type: report project: modernization event: >- GSA hosts a deep-background media briefing to demo its GSAi tool with invitations sent to reporters from Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and Fox among other media organizations. source: https://www.wired.com/story/gsa-staff-all-hands-meeting-ai/ agency: GSA id: CL9N6tJ2 - date: 2025-03-20 type: report event: >- Stephen Ehikian claims during an all-hands meeting that there is nobody from DOGE working at the agency. This is met with widespread ridicule by staff who know about the secured DOGE floor. project: impunity named: - Stephen Ehikian source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/many-doge-officials-appear-on-gsas-security-shortlist-acting-head-says-nobody-working-for-doge-here/ agency: GSA id: fSuPuFSV - date: 2025-03-20 type: directory event: >- Wired Magazine list DOGE staff stationed within GSA, all of whom were listed on GSA payroll on March 20, the same day Stephen Ehikian claimed there were no DOGE staff in the agency. comment: Coristine, Shaotran, Hollander, and Farritor are all listed as volunteer SGEs named: - Thomas Shedd - Riley Sennott - Edward Coristine - Nicole Hollander - Jeremy Lewin - Luke Farritor - Kyle Schutt - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Aimonetti - Ashley Boizelle source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ agency: GSA id: 8PXutJ5n - date: 2025-03-21 type: report event: >- DOGE expands the GSAi chatbot rollout to more than 13,000 GSA employees who are underwhelmed by its capabilities and concerned about it being a priority for the agency compared to other pressing technical needs. notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/gsa-staff-all-hands-meeting-ai/ agency: GSA id: DpAi3d4K - date: 2025-04-XX type: sighting fuzz: only month is given in report event: >- A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis. project: impunity named: - Thomas Shedd - Josh Gruenbaum - Edward Coristine - Luke Farritor - Steve Davis source: https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/ agency: GSA id: 188dnOTn - date: 2025-04-08 type: directory event: >- A partial copy of the GSA's A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA. project: impunity named: - Akash Bobba - Nate Cavanaugh - Edward Coristine - Stephen Ehikian - Luke Farritor - Steve Davis source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/many-doge-officials-appear-on-gsas-security-shortlist-acting-head-says-nobody-working-for-doge-here/ agency: GSA id: HQUguBSH - date: 2025-04-10 type: sighting event: >- Baris Akis spends several days working within GSA HQ, despite not being a formal DOGE employee. He is signed into GSA by Emily Bryant and Alexandra Beynon. named: - Baris Akis - Alexandra Beynon - Emily Bryant source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: GSA id: 7Gzzg4su - date: 2025-04-10 type: report event: >- Ethan Shaotran is converted to a regular position at the GSA at the GS-14 level, which would mean an annual salary of $142,488 - $185,234 in Washington, DC. This is a relatively senior position for any government worker that would not normally be granted to someone with his limited work experience. named: - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/ agency: GSA id: 43N5ZJ1g - date: 2025-05-13 type: directory event: >- In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts. named: - Justin Fox - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Aimonetti - Jack Stein - Jonathan Mendelson - Marshall Wood source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: GSA id: 6amFFPAZ - date: 2025-05-23 type: disruption event: >- Ethan Shaotran sends a Survey of Surveys email to federal agencies asking them to report information on data-collection surveys. This is redundant to the existing survey oversight already conducted by OMB, and there are concerns about what the data will be used for. project: elimination named: - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409331/doge-data-census-bureau agency: GSA id: 6XvVTqRw - date: 2025-05-28 type: legal event: >- Former 18F employees file a class-action appeal with the Merit Systems Protection Board stating that GSA did not provide a valid reason for eliminating the agency and the firings were acts of retaliation because of their perceived political affiliations. project: elimination source: https://fedscoop.com/former-18f-employees-file-appeal-of-doge-firings/ agency: GSA id: aDKiKq5b - date: 2025-05-29 type: offboard event: >- Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander reportedly resign their positions and depart from the GSA and government service in the wake of Elon Musk leaving DOGE. source: https://www.wired.com/story/nicole-hollander-top-musk-lieutenant-leaving-doge/ agency: GSA id: qGW3IvqQ - date: 2025-05-31 type: report event: >- Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor's roles are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach. It would not normally be granted to staff with such limited work experience. notable: true named: - Luke Farritor - Edward Coristine source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/ agency: GSA id: 1p5jvsJN - date: 2025-06-06 type: report event: >- Wired reports that TTS Administrator Thomas Shedd is in urgent need of in-house developers and is looking to revamp and restart the Presidential Innovation Fellows program months after it was eliminated due to the hiring freeze and mass layoffs that were initiated by TTS Administrator Thomas Shedd. notable: true project: elimination named: - Thomas Shedd source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiting-spree-elon-musk/ agency: GSA id: 6LLgEiFQ - date: 2025-06-23 type: offboard event: >- Less than a month after he was officially hired at GSA, Edward Coristine reportedly resigns his position and is removed from the building directory. named: - Edward Coristine agency: GSA source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/ id: 7P6wvu1k - date: 2025-07-07 type: action event: >- Thomas Shedd announces that after a review of 7200 websites in the federal government, GSA is recommending that 332 of those should be eliminated. These cuts are not evenly distributed (the SBA will eliminate half of its websites). This initiative dates back to 2023 OMB guidance for the [21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5759/text), so this is not a DOGE-created project, but some of the websites and pages are for programs targeted by DOGE. project: - modernization named: - Thomas Shedd source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/07/agencies-plan-to-decommission-hundreds-of-gov-websites-following-gsa-review/ agency: GSA id: FcKzndFj - date: 2025-07-10 type: report event: >- In a sign of DOGE's apparent waning influence at the agency, the guard who used to be posted outside of the sixth-floor A suite is gone as well as the signs in the elevator listing that only authorized access was allowed for that floor. notable: true source: >- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/07/10/core-doge-team-unravels-amid-wave-of-exits-00447658 agency: GSA id: 2qCy4fcr - date: 2025-07-18 type: report event: >- In an interview with the _Financial Times_ about his reported squeeze of government contractors, Josh Gruenbaum denies he has made unreasonable demands of many companies while going easy on Trump allies during his reviews of all government contracts overseen by the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA. project: spending named: - Josh Gruenbaum source: https://www.ft.com/content/a6d3acad-8d77-4734-b6a5-8fe587c4edac agency: GSA id: 6duJ4MN8 - date: 2025-07-21 type: offboard event: >- In a move that is seen as reprisal for GSA leadership's support of Steve Davis attempt to continue running DOGE after he left, the Trump White House names Mike Rigas as the new acting administrator of GSA. This demotes Stephen Ehikian to his role as Deputy Administrator of GSA only. notable: true named: - Stephen Ehikian source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/trump-installs-new-gsa-acting-administrator-sidelines-doge-leaders-00465468 agency: GSA id: 2AYfCe2r - date: 2025-07-21 type: directory event: >- Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks. named: - Alexander Simonpour - Nate Cavanaugh - Marshall Wood - Luke Farritor - Justin Fox - Jeremy Lewin - Frank Schuler - Ethan Shaotran - Dave Malcher fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee? source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/07/state-department-deputy-michael-rigas-tapped-acting-gsa-head/406869/ agency: GSA id: 43e2K83z - date: 2025-07-31 type: report agency: GSA event: >- After removing Stephen Ehikian as the acting director of GSA, the White House has reportedly detailed nine other staffers to the agency to speed a "de-Muskification" of the agency. This is possibly also related to the GSA supporting Steve Davis over the White House in his attempt to keep running DOGE even after he had left. A source describes Josh Gruenbaum as still in the good graces of the White House. notable: true named: - Stephen Ehikian - Josh Gruenbaum source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/elon-musk-gsa-doge-trump-00487503 id: uEiZVvYS - date: 2025-08-14 type: website event: >- GSA launches a new website [usai.gov](https://usai.gov/) to promote new partnerships between the agency and three different AI companies. The goal is to make it easier for agencies to embed AI internally. The site features large bold fonts, big images and an email contact form, and it also is 4 pages in total. This is the project that Bee Elvy and Alison Childs were reportedly working on. notable: true project: - modernization linked: - Bee Elvy - Alison Childs source: https://usai.gov/ agency: GSA id: 5GctmTYI - date: 2025-08-22 type: disruption event: >- Analysis by economists at Yale reveals that DOGE's widespread lease cancellations have had an effect on the normally stable $12 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities. In the DC area alone, researchers estimate losses of $575 million to the commercial real-estate sector over the next ten years. notable: true source: >- https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/doges-lease-cancellations-are-already-hitting-the-commercial-real-estate-market agency: GSA id: 5KVZ0S3I - date: 2025-08-26 type: directory event: >- A report from Politico identifies three foreign nationals who are working for DOGE within the GSA. Normally, they would not be eligible for government positions but have been hired as contractors. Two are from AirBnb and one worked for X.com in prior capacities. named: - Andrew Vilcsak - Yat Choi - Micaela Lopez Ballefin source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/the-foreigners-working-for-doge-00525792 agency: GSA id: 2rbnf9gO - date: 2025-09-03 type: offboard event: >- Stephen Ehikian sends an email to GSA staff announcing that he is "transitioning out" of the Deputy Administrator role after an AI startup announces that he is its new CEO. It's unclear when his actual last date at the agency will be or how he can be working for a private entity and the GSA during this transition. notable: true named: - Stephen Ehikian source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/09/gsa-deputy-stephen-ehikian-to-transition-out-of-current-role/ agency: GSA id: 2MEplxgE - date: 2025-09-23 type: disruption event: >- GSA sends out an offer of reinstatement to hundreds of employees who managed government offices and leases and were fired by DOGE. The employees are only given until the end of the week to make their decision. This underscores recent reports that the agency is critically understaffed and unable to handle rising demand for government office space due to ICE's expansion. source: https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-gsa-fired-employees-ce18553b281fbf5816ec2fd491d79b78 project: personnel agency: GSA id: 11HyjmCL - date: 2025-09-25 type: oversight event: >- The GSA Inspector General has included several DOGE-related projects in its list of priority audits for fiscal year 2026. These include the mass termination of leases and the destruction of 18F source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/09/agency-watchdog-will-see-if-doge-led-projects-improved-efficiency/ agency: GSA id: 4jRcqZ8I - date: 2025-10-20 type: oversight event: >- Ethan Shaotran files an ethics financial disclosure form that reveals he had very recently sold Palantir stock worth somewhere in the range of $500,000 to $1 million. The timing is unusual, since if he were expected to divest from this stock, the deadline for that would've been 90 days from when he was made a fulltime employee of GSA in April 2025. named: - Ethan Shaotran source: >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27884870-shaotran-ethan-noncareer-ses-and-schedule-cs-periodic-transaction-278-t-2025-2025-11-07/ agency: GSA id: XuwxS10P - date: 2025-12-11 type: report event: >- Data from the General Accounting Office confirms that DOGE at GSA has carried out 260 lease terminations for government offices this year, saving about $112 million in leasing costs. This means that the agency finalized about 30% of the 900 or so leases it had initially targeted. project: spending agency: GSA source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/facilities-construction/2025/12/gsa-terminated-hundreds-of-federal-office-space-leases-but-far-less-than-doge-targets/ id: 4Z7C7rc2 - date: 2026-01-(10)~ type: action event: >- After GSA officials raised concerns that the xAI Grok model was a safety risk because it was too syncophantic and susceptible to manipulation, Josh Gruenbaum defends the inclusion of the company's models into the government's USAi site. Susie Wiles is satisfied by his explanation, but usage of the model by government agencies has been low, except in some cases where security testers have needed to simulate a bad actor. named: - Josh Gruenbaum agency: GSA project: modernization source: >- https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai-grok-security-safety-government-73ab4f6e id: 5FK3FFrQ - date: 2026-01-22 type: official event: >- Josh Gruenbaum appears in a meeting at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin alongside Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Despite being a commissioner at the GSA, he has become more involved with other White House initiatives including targeting universities and foreign aid. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/gruenbaum-sidelined-iran-russia-ukraine-00898103 named: - Josh Gruenbaum agency: GSA id: 5kkVqrGd - date: 2026-04-03 type: disruption event: >- GSA has announced it is hiring approximately 400 positions in the Public Building Service division that handled facilities acquisition and maintenance. The division had been hit doubly hard by DOGE's efforts to remove personnel as well as cancel government leases, losing hundreds of employees in March 2025. project: - personnel - spending source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cuts-gsa-plans-to-hire-hundreds-of-employees/ agency: GSA id: 6HP3QkPS - date: 2026-04-27 type: onboard event: >- Greg Barbaccia, who is the acting commissioner of the Technology Transfer Service as well as the Federal CIO, emails staff to inform that Greg Hogan will be starting as an Acting Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Login.gov service. Weirdly, it seems that Greg Hogan is being detailed to GSA, presumably from NDS. source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/04/gsa-taps-greg-hogan-head-governments-identity-proofing-service-logingov/413149/ project: modernization agency: GSA id: 3eh20l0b - name: Government Accountability Office id: GAO slug: gao short_name: GAO page_slug: independent#leg events: - date: 2025-05-13 type: sighting event: >- Justin Fox emails GAO (cc'ing Nate Cavanaugh) to schedule a call to get a DOGE team assigned to the GAO. This is despite the GAO being located in the legislative branch and thus not answerable to the President. notable: true named: - Justin Fox - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: GAO id: 4puong1Y - date: 2025-05-16 type: official event: >- A GAO spokesman confirms that DOGE had attempted to assign a team to the agency but had been rebuffed by agency leadership. notable: true project: impunity agency: GAO source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html id: 3QZhm9bF - name: Health and Human Services id: HHS slug: hhs short_name: HHS page_slug: health blurb: |- It has not always been easy to identify DOGE's activities within Health and Human Services. Early coverage following DOGE's activities at the children of HHS - themselves massive agencies like CDC, CMS and FDA - often missed the forest for the trees. Thankfully, government-supplied declarations in court cases like _AFL-CIO vs. DOL_ have provided details and context. HHS has been a target of every single one of DOGE's various initiatives. Early cost-cutting efforts eliminated staff at the CDC and the FDA, which also was targeted for deregulation. As the parent of Medicare and Medicaid, CMS was a natural target to be scrutinized for excessive costs, but DOGE has yet to make any wildly unsubstantiated claims there. More recently, DOGE has been using some of the HHS databases to mine for data on immigrants, and their access to the medical claims of millions of Americans should be troubling to all. Health and Human Services is the parent agency for several other important agencies where DOGE has also had a presence: - **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)** do just that for disease response and management. They are headquartered in Atlanta. - **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)** administers government-provided healthcare plans for millions of Americans. - **Food and Drug Administration (FDA)** is primarily responsible for ensuring the safety of many foods (except meat), medications and medical devices. - **National Institutes of Health (NIH)** are a collection of centers that fund and track research in various medical fields Since DOGE staff have been granted wide access to systems across all these agencies, I have collected them all on this page, but I will still try to track internal transfers. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-03-XX type: access event: >- In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grants, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the Payment Management System system. project: - spending - fraud named: - Clark Minor comment: deposition by Jennifer Wendel on 4/08 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.82.4.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: HHS id: 3NJpZuhN - date: 2025-03-03 type: access event: >- DOGE staff attempt to access NDNH, "a system within a broader government database created to help enforce child support payments, which pulls a vast trove of information, including income data linked to nearly all workers," potentially as an alternative data source for the data they wanted to pull from the IRS. This attempt is refused by agency staff. notable: true project: immigration source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/ agency: HHS id: ceaPKABV - date: 2025-03-08 type: disruption event: >- The federal staff who objected to DOGE getting access to NDNH are reportedly "no longer with the agency." notable: true source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support project: - immigration - impunity agency: HHS id: 8SdCKCzM - date: 2025-03-13 type: directory event: >- As later reported in a declaration in _AFL-CIO et al. vs. Department of Labor_, HHS employee Mark Samburg finds DOGE staff at the agency listed in an online directory as Executive Engineers (and Rachel Riley as a Senior Advisor). source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.53.4.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 named: - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Luke Farritor - Aram Moghaddassi - Rachel Riley agency: HHS id: oTHjD2hg - date: 2025-03-27 type: official event: >- HHS announces a large reorganization, reducing HHS from 28 to 15 divisions and eliminating 20,000 jobs (or 25% of total). The URL slug of the press release includes the word "DOGE" in it. project: - personnel - elimination source: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/hhs-restructuring-doge.html agency: HHS id: 2bWLrWRv - date: 2025-03-28 type: report event: >- During an interview, the head of HHS Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reports that DOGE created the new organizational chart for the agency ahead of mass firings. He also claims "we're not cutting scientists." source: https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/rfk-defends-hhs-job-cuts/ notable: true project: - personnel - elimination agency: HHS id: RgFJHEtV - date: 2025-03-29 type: directory source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 event: >- In response to a discovery request made in _AFL-CIO vs. DOL_, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS. named: - Edward Coristine - Marko Elez - Luke Farritor - Amy Gleason - Kyle Schutt agency: HHS id: KhdnaQWS - date: 2025-03-29 type: directory source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.4.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 event: >- In a court declaration in _AFL-CIO vs. DOL_, counsel for the plaintiffs Alexa Milton provides the names of two DOGE staffers at HHS who were not included in the government's list of staffers provided as part of legal discovery. named: - Conor Fennessy - Jeremy Lewin agency: HHS id: 2JU9Todn - date: 2025-04-01 type: report event: >- In a group chat within HHS system, Amy Gleason attempts to distance herself from the mass layoffs caused by DOGE by claiming she is just the USDS administrator only and has nothing to do with how the DOGE teams operate. notable: true project: personnel source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/doge-amy-gleason-group-chat-20258581.php named: - Amy Gleason agency: HHS id: mXTHtBac - date: 2025-05-14 type: official event: >- Testifying before a House committee, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. described DOGE's role in their layoffs as "Elon Musk gave us help in figuring out where there was waste, fraud and abuse in the department, but it was up to me to make the decision." named: - Elon Musk agency: HHS source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/14/rfk-jr-congress-testimony/ id: obOu9SpT - date: 2025-07-06 type: disruption event: >- The head of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sends a "DEI Whistle-blower Questionnaire" to all staff which is really just a thinly-veiled invitation for federal coworkers to snitch on their colleagues. notable: true project: - dei - personnel source: >- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-administration-government-employees-snitch-1235381036/ agency: HHS id: 6ivxCK11 - date: 2025-07-10 type: official event: >- HHS issues a press release announces that it is cracking down on ensuring that benefits are not being provided to undocumented immigrants, including Head Start among its list of programs that will be receiving greater scrutiny. This policy shift will also likely be used to justify increased information sharing between HHS and ICE. notable: true project: immigration source: >- https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/prwora-hhs-bans-illegal-aliens-accessing-taxpayer-funded-programs.html agency: HHS id: 6EA733IH - date: 2025-07-11 type: disruption event: >- After DOGE imposed its "Defend the Spend" restrictions on reviewing grants, HHS is struggling to review and approve a billion-dollar backlog of delayed grants by the end of the fiscal year in September. This issues have been compounded by mass layoffs, also led by DOGE. Applicants may be forced to apply only within a two-week window and some parts of the agency like the Administration for Children and Families have reportedly asked departed staff to come back or are hiring contractors to resolve the mess. notable: true project: - spending source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hhs-facing-billion-dollar-backlog-of-delayed-grants-after-doge/ agency: HHS id: rFRviJbc - date: 2025-09-(01)~ type: disruption event: >- Zach Terrell is named as the new Chief Technology Officer at HHS. He reportedly is also continuing to hold a role at NSF, supervising DOGE activities there. project: impunity named: - Zach Terrell source: https://fedscoop.com/hhs-has-new-doge-affiliated-technology-chief-cto/ agency: HHS id: 3f0CTiZl - date: 2025-09-30 type: disruption event: >- The day before the beginning of the 2025 federal government shutdown, HHS proposes eliminating 8,000 jobs at the suggestion of Russell Vought, who wants to use the shutdown to inflict pain. HHS eventually lays off 1760 positions on October 10th, but was later revised to 954 after HHS blamed a coding error for firing too many people. Initially, HHS refuses to identify the creator for the layoff proposal within HHS, but it's eventually revealed to be Rachel Riley. project: personnel agency: HHS named: - Russell Vought - Rachel Riley source: - https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/hhs-shutdown-layoffs-doge-vought-00620786 - >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/30/doge-holdover-who-pushed-for-deep-cuts-at-hhs-is-headed-to-the-navy-00629729 id: 3doW3EB5 - name: Housing and Urban Development id: HUD short_name: HUD page_slug: housing slug: hud blurb: >- DOGE's involvement at HUD has ostensibly been focused on fraud and waste rather than IT modernization. At the start, the DOGE staff at the agency focused on cancelling contracts, especially if it could find opportunities to eliminate those focused on DEI or other initiatives to restore equity. There have also been efforts to use highly sensitive HUD databases as a way to get access to extremely private information such as the income and wages of every American, when earlier attempts to retrieve such information at Social Security and the IRS ran into legal opposition. DOGE claims this is needed for the administration's anti-immigration efforts, but it's not hard to imagine many other shady scenarios for this data. Around the middle of April, DOGE added a third staffer at the agency who is piloting effort to use a Large Language Model (LLM) to identify housing regulations to repeal. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-26 type: disruption event: >- Spurred by rumors there would be a funding freeze, HUD grantees drew their funds early at 5x normal rate, accounting for $1.5 billion in grant expenditures in total. project: spending source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/ agency: HUD id: Ykzp8vjp - date: 2025-02-10 type: sighting event: >- Multiple employees at HUD receive an email from new DOGE staffer Scott Langmack asking them to list every contract at HUD and whether it is critical to HUD's mission and/or has DEI components. notable: true project: - dei - spending named: - Scott Langmack source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ agency: HUD id: TjkvD7jk - date: 2025-02-13 type: official event: >- HUD issues a press release reporting that it has launched a "DOGE Task Force" comprising both DOGE personnel and HUD staffers. source: https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-030 agency: HUD id: 5PimPow9 - date: 2025-02-26 type: access event: >- Wired reports that DOGE staff were given read-only access to some systems and read-write access to payment systems within HUD, as well as the centralized authorization system that would allow the team to grant or revoke access to other systems. notable: true project: - spending - impunity source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ agency: HUD id: VTVuHtEb - date: 2025-02-26 type: sighting event: >- There is reportedly a 6-person DOGE team working at HUD, with 4 of the staff identified as existing HUD employees and Michael Mirski and Scott Langmack as the representatives from DOGE. source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ named: - Michael Mirski - Scott Langmack agency: HUD id: F3UCNb8e - date: 2025-04-01 type: official event: >- HUD staff receive an email from HUD HR offering a new "Fork in the Road" offer for deferred resignation, open until April 11. project: personnel source: https://bsky.app/profile/davelevitan.bsky.social/post/3llqvwtc5lq2v agency: HUD id: TiFFik6v - date: 2025-04-(10)~ type: onboard fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April event: >- Scott Langmack sends a message to HUD staff announcing that "I'd like to share with you that Chris Sweet has joined the HUD DOGE team with the title of special assistant, although a better title might be 'AI computer programming quant analyst.'" source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/ named: - Christopher Sweet - Scott Langmack project: modernization agency: HUD id: mBJqiHKW - date: 2025-04-15 type: disruption event: >- Michael Mirski is named as leading a DOGE effort at HUD to identify and target households that include undocumented immigrants. These could then be referred to the surveillance system that is being built by DOGE at DHS for immigration enforcement. notable: true project: immigration source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/doge-is-collecting-federal-data-to-remove-immigrants-from-housing-jobs/ar-AA1CWQ57 named: - Michael Mirski agency: HUD id: AsjWbK8C - date: 2025-04-(15)~ type: access fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April event: >- Christopher Sweet is reported to be using an AI model to analyze HUD regulations and suggest revisions. These are presented to HUD staff for review in a large spreadsheet. It is not clear how the AI system is making these determinations. notable: true project: - modernization - deregulation source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/ named: - Christopher Sweet agency: HUD id: 4jNjj3vF - date: 2025-04-(20)~ type: interagency fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April event: >- In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use Christopher Sweet's AI model analyzing regulations at HUD to review the entire Code of Federal regulations for regulations to review. project: - modernization - deregulation source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/ interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Jacob Altik HUD: - Christopher Sweet agency: HUD id: Q4hkKRZT - date: 2025-07-(01)~ type: action event: >- Christopher Sweet participates in a meeting at HUD to discuss more permanent hosting options for the AI deregulation tool which had been running internally. This could be the precursor to providing it as a service to other agencies. project: - modernization - deregulation named: - Christopher Sweet fuzz: Meeting reported as in week of 2025-06-30 source: https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/ agency: HUD id: XTCC1TGA - name: Immigration and Customs Enforcement id: ICE short_name: ICE parent_id: DHS slug: ice doge_base: true page_slug: homeland-security events: - date: 2025-06-04 type: disruption event: >- A $47 million dollar contract for expanding a major immigration facility in Georgia is paused pending review by DOGE under a new policy that requires review for any DHS contract worth more than $20 million. Previously, DHS had been exempt from such spending controls by DOGE. project: spending source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/04/ice-detention-georgia-geo/ agency: ICE id: JVRX7BOe - name: Institute for Museum and Library Services id: IMLS short_name: IMLS slug: imls page_slug: independent#eo2 events: - date: 2025-03-19 type: sighting event: >- IMLS staff learn that DOGE is planning to visit their headquarters following day; most make plans to attend as a show of solidarity. source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-imls-institute-museum-library-services-2623286 agency: IMLS id: MGBmJGfA - date: 2025-03-20 type: sighting event: >- DOGE arrives at IMLS HQ and are startled to find most of the staff there. The DOGE representatives quickly swear in Keith Sonderling as acting director of IMLS and then leave. project: elimination named: - Keith Sonderling source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-imls-institute-museum-library-services-2623286 agency: IMLS id: nTUfmAV8 - date: 2025-03-20 type: official project: elimination event: >- After being sworn in as the acting director of the IMLS, Keith Sonderling issues a statement that he "will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country's core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations." named: - Keith Sonderling source: >- https://www.imls.gov/news/keith-e-sonderling-sworn-acting-director-institute-museum-and-library-services agency: IMLS id: 4AvImwGO - date: 2025-03-31 type: disruption event: >- DOGE wrecker Nate Cavanaugh returns to the IMLS and notifies the entire staff of the agency that they are being put on administrative leave up to 90 days effective immediately. notable: true project: elimination named: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.1.1_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 agency: IMLS id: oGkzQb5Y - date: 2025-03-31 type: access event: >- DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring its grants and sending emails. The person is not named, but this is likely Nate Cavanaugh. project: spending source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-decimates-institute-museum-library-services-imls-2626543 named: - Nate Cavanaugh agency: IMLS id: 2WDroWS4 - date: 2025-03-31 type: disruption event: >- DOGE runs a process to send out emails cancelling all 900 open awards from IMLS to museums across the country. source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-decimates-institute-museum-library-services-imls-2626543 notable: true project: spending agency: IMLS linked: - Nate Cavanaugh id: CK2DtEca - date: 2025-04-02 type: disruption event: >- DOGE continues its destruction of IMLS by terminating 15 IMLS grants listed under its "Grants to States" program. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.35.3_1.pdf notable: true project: spending case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 agency: IMLS id: 1IOyNuWv - date: 2025-04-09 type: disruption event: DOGE terminates most of the remaining grants from IMLS (over 1000 in total). source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.35.3_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 agency: IMLS id: 6W6tefIG - date: 2025-05-13 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 event: >- Ruling in _Rhode Island v. Trump et al_, Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered a preliminary injunction declaring that IMLS grants must be processed and staff brought back. source: >- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98040-results-vary-in-legal-efforts-to-restore-imls.html project: - spending - elimination - personnel agency: IMLS id: 3ydapTY9 - date: 2025-05-19 type: disruption event: >- Although IMLS staff are returned to their positions by court order, employees complain that the email "reinforced attempts to eliminate staff through trauma, force, and malicious compliance." source: >- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98040-results-vary-in-legal-efforts-to-restore-imls.html project: - personnel - elimination agency: IMLS id: 5DmuzV7m - date: 2025-06-06 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _ALA v. Sonderling_, Judge Richard Leon declines to grant the preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs, suggesting that the US Court of Federal Claims might be the more appropriate venue for the case, since it involves federal contracts. source: >- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98040-results-vary-in-legal-efforts-to-restore-imls.html project: spending agency: IMLS id: 2F8Zc4RQ - date: 2025-06-12 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 event: >- The plaintiffs in _Rhode Island v. Trump et al_ file an amended complaint asking the court to rule that the IMLS closure was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. As part of this filing, they issued summons to Keith Sonderling, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Russell Vought. They have 60 days to respond, pushing the nest phase of the trial to August. named: - Keith Sonderling - Russell Vought source: >- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98040-results-vary-in-legal-efforts-to-restore-imls.html agency: IMLS id: 63bcnWEC - date: 2025-06-16 type: oversight event: >- The GAO determines that the executive branch violated _The Impoundment Act of 1974_ when it prevented agency functions, including withholding funds that were not eligible for cancellation under any circumstances. The GAO general counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez noted that GAO had reached out to IMLS for information, requesting responses on May 5 and May 12 but were not replied to. notable: true source: >- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98040-results-vary-in-legal-efforts-to-restore-imls.html project: spending agency: IMLS id: 7f4qUKyi - date: 2025-12-03 type: official event: >- After a November 21 federal court decision ruled against them, IMLS announces it has reinstated all federal grants to libraries. The official statement just states however "Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants." notable: true source: https://www.ala.org/news/2025/12/ala-welcomes-reinstatement-all-federal-imls-grants-libraries project: spending agency: IMLS id: 7IT9mdp8 - name: Inter-American Foundation id: IAF short_name: IAF page_slug: independent#eo1 slug: iaf events: - date: 2025-02-20 type: sighting event: >- IAF President Sara Aviel learns that DOGE will be visiting her agency. That afternoon, she meets Nate Cavanaugh and Ethan Shaotran who both introduce themselves as GSA employees. They showed little interest in a discussion on efficiency initiatives at the agency and stated they just wanted access to systems. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Ethan Shaotran case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 431d9XI3 - date: 2025-02-21 type: disruption event: IAF CEO Sara Aviel confirms to a friend at USADF that DOGE plans to dismantle the agency. project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 agency: IAF id: 3GLAQY5f - date: 2025-02-24 type: report event: >- The IAF President Sara Aviel confers with the board of the IAF and aliies in Congress who inform her that a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) layoff would be in contravention of appropriations already enacted into law. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 5BH8pXk4 - date: 2025-02-24 type: disruption notable: true event: >- The IAF President Sara Aviel joins a call with Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik, who claim that all but one of the board members have been terminated. They demand that Aviel approves DOGE's plan for the agency – which she declines to do – and that she sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) assigning a DOGE member to the agency and granting them access to systems. After the call, she confirms that no board members had received a termination notice. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf project: - elimination - impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 2qZVmknt - date: 2025-02-26 type: disruption event: >- IAF President Sara Aviel receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse informing her that President Trump has now terminated her position. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.6_1.pdf project: - spending - elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 1x0KLZpR - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- White House Deputy Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF which states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman for the agency. named: - Trent Morse - Peter Marocco source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.9_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 3bCDhPDD - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- Peter Marocco convenes an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is that Trump issued an executive order), asserting that means he can avoid the mandatory 1-week notification to the board of the agency. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO of the IAF. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.10_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF named: - Peter Marocco - Ethan Shaotran - Nate Cavanaugh id: 6VRWYSuW - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption notable: true event: >- Peter Marocco announces himself to staff at IAF as President/CEO. He then begins immediately dismantling all contracts and places all staff on administrative leave for 30 days to prevent them from interfering or monitoring DOGE's actions at the agency. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf project: - spending - elimination - impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF named: - Peter Marocco id: kdrdnrsa - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: >- DOGE brags on its X account that the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) has been reduced to a single employee. source: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1897023739960680843 notable: true project: - elimination agency: IAF id: XfnndZuf - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: DOGE takes the Inter-American Foundation's website offline. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf project: elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 3od3PFqF - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: >- Peter Marocco sends emails to all grantees terminating all of IAF's existing grants except for a single one that was almost completely disbursed by that point. named: - Peter Marocco source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf project: - elimination - spending case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 7jnfoDik - date: 2025-03-(05)~ type: disruption event: >- Peter Marocco names the remaining single employee not on admininstrative leave at the agency, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the Inter-American Foundation. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf project: elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 3FMvKeDT - date: 2025-03-10 type: onboard event: The Trump Administration nominates Kenneth Jackson and Russell Vought to be on the board of the IAF. named: - Kenneth Jackson - Russell Vought source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/executive_calendar/xcalv.pdf agency: IAF id: gpJzqYTy - date: 2025-04-04 type: legal event: >- A judge grants an injunction and orders that IAF President Sara Aviel must be reinstated as the president of the IAF while her lawsuit proceeds against the administration. source: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5233012-inter-american-foundation-trump-blocked/ project: elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 5X4SGtZV - date: 2025-04-04 type: legal event: >- Sara Aviel discovers that a `team@iaf.gov` created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee the day before Aviel's return by orders of a court as President of the agency. named: - Ethan Shaotran - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf project: personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: IAF id: 6dgqQSWL - name: Internal Revenue Service id: IRS short_name: IRS slug: irs parent_id: Treasury page_slug: treasury blurb: >- The Treasury Department is where DOGE first explored its plan to achieve impoundment through controlling the mechanisms that the government uses for payments. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-16 type: access event: >- The White House pressures the IRS to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) granting DOGE expanded access to internal systems at the agency which contain confidential taxpayer information. notable: true source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/ project: - fraud - immigration agency: IRS id: QjJjk5mu - date: 2025-02-17 type: official event: >- A White House official confirms that one DOGE staffer will be working with an IRS employee assigned to him to access IRS systems. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/elon-musk-doge-irs-00204579 agency: IRS id: LeZFKdaU - date: 2025-02-18 type: legal event: >- Privacy advocates sue to stop DOGE from gaining acess to IRS systems which contain highly sensitive data about taxpayers. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/nx-s1-5300826/doge-irs-lawsuit-taxpayers-data agency: IRS id: PZkRFvLG - date: 2025-02-20 type: interagency event: >- The White House and Treasury Department come to an agreement for a Memorandum of Understanding about how DOGE access to IRS systems will be structured. notable: true source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/treasury-irs-data-white-house-doge-00205391 project: - fraud - immigration agency: IRS id: Fwq6uees - date: 2025-02-20 type: legal event: >- In a court filing, Treasury says it is adding two more DOGE staffers to its roster who will be exclusively focused on working at the IRS. linked: - Ryan Wunderly - Gavin Kliger source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/treasury-irs-data-white-house-doge-00205391 agency: IRS id: EjrSMk9d - date: 2025-02-20 type: access event: >- Facing a revolt over privacy concerns by staff at the IRS, The Treasury Department agrees to block Gavin Kliger from the IDRS system and provide him only with anonymized data. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/doge-irs-taxpayer-data-privacy/ named: - Gavin Kliger agency: IRS id: MD9eHvgr - date: 2025-02-21 type: interagency event: >- The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the IRS and DOGE is formally signed. It reportedly will not let DOGE access individual tax returns. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/irs-doge-gavin-kliger.html project: - fraud - immigration agency: IRS id: PuLGSMRa - date: 2025-02-25 type: access event: >- The Post reports that DOGE staffers Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos are being granted access to only anonymized data from IDRS as was specified in an earlier MOU. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/elon-musk-doge-data-privacy-security/ project: fraud agency: IRS id: QfW2MVvJ - date: 2025-02-28 type: official named: - Gavin Kliger - Sam Corcos event: >- Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, DOGE representatives embedded at the IRS, on Friday asked IRS lawyers to assist in creating an "omnibus" agreement with other federal agencies that would allow a broad swath of federal officials to cross-reference benefits rolls with taxpayer data. notable: true source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/01/doge-irs-tax-records-benefits/ project: - fraud - immigration agency: IRS id: Np7Nfyaw - date: 2025-03-XX type: disruption event: >- Several days after meeting with lobbyists from the tax software prep industry's Free File Inc. coalition led by Intuit, Sam Corcos abruptly reverses his prior course and makes the case to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the IRS' Direct File program for free tax filing should be shut down. notable: true named: - Sam Corcos agency: IRS source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-direct-file-chopping-block/ id: 3x1dbLva - date: 2025-03-03 type: disruption event: >- The head of HR, Traci DiMartini, for the IRS is placed on administrative leave reportedly for refusing to bring in employees over the weekend to onboard Sam Corcos outside of the usual hiring processes and schedule. notable: true source: https://newrepublic.com/post/192478/irs-chief-revenge-fired-doge project: impunity agency: IRS id: BY87i4Uw - date: 2025-03-13 type: disruption event: >- The acting chief counsel of the IRS, William Paul, is removed from his role and replaced by Andrew De Mello, who is seen as more supportive of DOGE's work at the agency. source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-de-mello-irs-william-paul-doge-trump/ project: impunity agency: IRS id: ZTm4qbrC - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- DOGE abruptly places 50 technologists working at the IRS on administrative leave. This is a common tactic used by DOGE to prevent federal staff from monitoring or checking DOGE's actions at the agencies and is often a precursor to firing them. notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ project: impunity agency: IRS id: 7aQsK6pd - date: 2025-04-03 type: disruption event: >- Multiple senior technological positions at the IRS are terminated. These include director of cybersecurity architecture and implementation, deputy chief information security officer, and acting director of security risk management. source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ project: - personnel - impunity agency: IRS id: QH5hBz4D - date: 2025-04-08 type: disruption event: >- DOGE engineers kick off a hackathon at IRS with some senior IRS developers and representatives of the company Palantir to create a \"Mega API\" of IRS data. Palantir is also involved with efforts to build surveillance systems for ICE to use against immigrants. notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/ project: - immigration named: - Sam Corcos - Gavin Kliger agency: IRS id: fxfRqKPJ - date: 2025-04-10 type: disruption event: >- The hackathon to create a "Mega API" at the IRS concludes. DOGE engineers are reportedly confident they will be able to deploy it in 30 days. It is unclear if it was ever deployed. source: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/ named: - Sam Corcos agency: IRS id: dL72Svcf - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption event: >- Although it has not made the decision public, the DOGE team at the IRS reportedly formally decided to end the newly popular Direct File program, which provides a free filing alternative for income taxes. source: https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-trump-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab agency: IRS id: 3UzNppej - date: 2025-05-07 type: disruption event: >- After two months of DOGE-directed cuts, IRS has lost 3600 (31% of that workforce) of the workers who perform audits at the agency. This will drastically reduce the ability of the IRS to detect tax cheating and fraud. notable: true source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-doge-cuts-layoffs-31-percent-auditors-tax-revenue-impact/ project: personnel agency: IRS id: 5GGqzxaQ - date: 2025-05-08 type: disruption event: >- IRS Input Correction Operation employees working at the Kansas City office receive notifications they must work on Saturdays for 2 weekends in May to handle the growing backlog of tax returns due to an overall reduction in IRS staff. source: >- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-mandatory-overtime-tax-returns-doge-b2747028.html project: personnel agency: IRS id: 7OPjt5xy - date: 2025-05-15 type: oversight event: >- The ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sends a letter requesting that the IRS Inspector General investigate the circumstances of the "hackathon." source: https://fedscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/05/2025-05-15.GEC-to-TIGTA-re-IRS-Tech.pdf agency: IRS id: 5CqG0eNe - date: 2025-05-29 type: oversight event: >- During a briefing to the Ways and Means Committee representatives and staff, DOGE members say they are very excited about the possibility of using AI to interface with and modernize legacy COBOL systems at the IRS. notable: true source: https://gwenmoore.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final-_moore_delbene_letter_to_irs_on_ai_coding.pdf project: - modernization agency: IRS id: 13Zj3dEB - date: 2025-06-27 type: disruption event: >- Two days after preventing a data sharing request from ICE due to concerns it would break the law, the acting counself for the IRS is fired and removed from his job. The Acting Counsel had replaced the prior agency counsel because he was considered more friendly to Trump's interests. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations notable: true project: - impunity - immigration agency: - IRS id: ECAU4796 - date: 2025-07-15 type: report event: >- Reporting on DOGE's efforts to import IRS data into immigration enforcement databases, ProPublica reports that 7.3 million addresses requested by ICE have still not yet been shared with the agency by the IRS. IRS staff do not believe that ICE has 7 million open investigations and are concerned that outdated or inaccurate information in the dataset could lead to false arrests and detentions. However, IRS is still building this system and is targeting a late July launch date. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations notable: true project: immigration agency: - IRS id: V6Rntzya - date: 2025-08-08 type: disruption event: >- The IRS Commissioner, Billy Long, is reportedly ousted by the Trump Administration after refusing to fully comply with a DHS request for confidential taxpayer information on 40,000 names of suspected undocumented immigrants. This request was for addresses as well as if they had claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income filers. Long announced he will be nominated to be the US Ambassador to Iceland, making him the sixth IRS commissioner to leave or be removed from the agency this year. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will run the agency in an acting capacity. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/09/trump-administration-irs-data-dispute/ notable: true project: immigration agency: IRS id: 2ckg0H3e - date: 2025-08-08 type: access event: >- The IRS begins sharing more sensitive data on taxpayers. Under the agreement with DHS, IRS had promised to share information on taxpayers under active criminal investigation, but DHS then requested information on 1.23 million individuals. The IRS was only able to return information on less than 5% of this request, angering the Trump White House and reportedly leading to Long's dismissal. source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/irs-dhs-share-taxpayer-data-undocumented-immigrants project: immigration notable: true agency: IRS id: 2TTIw2VB - date: 2025-11-(15)~ type: disruption event: >- Under the direction of Sam Corcos, the IRS has rolled out coding tests hosted on the site HackerRack to its technical staff to assess their "technical proficiency." This is likely the precursor to restructuring and layoffs within the agency's 8500-person IT division. When asked about the purpose of the tests in an all-hands meeting, IRS leadership refused to answer. notable: true named: - Sam Corcos source: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/ project: personnel agency: IRS id: 2fkNjdsb - date: 2025-12-08 type: official event: >- Sahil Lavingia shares a revision to the IRS homepage's look and feel which makes it look more like LinkedIn or similar. Design critics note that it has 3 different Sign In buttons, which Sahil states it will save the user time depending on where their cursor is. named: - Sahil Lavingia agency: IRS project: modernization source: https://xcancel.com/shl/status/1998146563517100463 id: 2YUAIakk - date: 2025-12-10 type: oversight event: >- Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee send a letter to Scott Bessent asking for more information about DOGE's possible use of AI to interface with and modernize COBOL code running at the IRS. They receive no reply. notable: true source: https://gwenmoore.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final-_moore_delbene_letter_to_irs_on_ai_coding.pdf project: - modernization agency: IRS id: 3uqaeaYO - date: 2025-12-16 type: official event: >- Acting in his role as CIO for the Treasury, Sam Corcos approves spending up to $1.5 million on up to 3000 licenses for ChatGPT at the agency, with more than $500,000 already obligated. notable: true named: - Sam Corcos project: modernization source: https://www.fastcompany.com/91461459/doge-treasury-chatgpt agency: IRS id: 4nN6gpXw - date: 2026-01-20 type: disruption event: >- Acting IRS CEO Frank Bisignano announces a major shake-up for leadership at the IRS, which had already been struggling with vacancies after DOGE-driven reductions last year. Bisignano has announced he will be co-leading tax compliance at the agency. He also promoted DOGE team lead Tom Newnam to the role of Chief Financial Officer, giving him oversight over procurement, facilities and privacy at the agency. notable: true project: impunity named: - Frank Bisignano - Todd Newnam source: >- https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/irs-criminal-head-exits-trump-friendly-faces-in-new-org-chart agency: IRS id: 3JN9Fp76 - date: 2026-02-18 type: disruption event: >- Speaking at an industry conference, the CIO for the IRS reported that the agency has lost nearly 40% of its IT staff and nearly 80% of its IT executives as a result of DOGE's various actions to target staffing in the federal government. notable: true project: personnel source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/irs-cio-says-agency-lost-40-of-tech-workers-last-year/ agency: IRS id: 6dNHTMV8 - date: 2026-02-19 type: official event: >- Speaking at an industry event, Todd Newnam talked about how the IRS is going to operate with a 25% smaller workforce. This includes eliminating some offices and allowing for more remote work, as well as the promise that more of the agency's operations will be self-service. project: - personnel - spending named: - Todd Newnam source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/irs-looks-to-shrink-office-space-after-losing-a-quarter-of-its-workforce-last-year/ agency: IRS id: 3iC9nV7d - name: Merit System Protection Board id: MSPB slug: MSPB short_name: MSPB page_slug: independent#mspb events: - date: 2025-05-16 type: sighting event: >- Staff at the MSPB receive an email informing them that Nate Cavanaugh will be onboarded on May 21 as a detailee "from DOGE" and that he is expected to spend several weeks reviewing contracts and spending. He will be working remotely. notable: true source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lpclnw3x7s2c project: - spending agency: MSPB named: - Nate Cavanaugh id: 6MjLIh4w - name: Millennium Challenge Corporation id: MCC short_name: MCC slug: mcc page_slug: independent#other events: - date: 2025-04-(07)~ type: sighting event: >- Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership. Following the DOGE pattern for small independent agencies, this process eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs. notable: true fuzz: exact date not given, just in "last two weeks" project: - spending - elimination named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/doge-millennium-challenge-foreign-aid-00306333 agency: MCC id: 7XJcr5Wu - date: 2025-04-22 type: report event: >- Staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation are informed that DOGE has directed the termination of all grants and the reduction of the staff from 320 to a few dozen. project: - spending - elimination linked: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox source: >- https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5375110/doge-dismantling-foreign-aid-agency-started-by-george-w-bush agency: MCC id: VG5bCFVi - date: 2025-06-27 type: disruption event: >- The government of Kosovo announces that it has not received any notification about the shuttering of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, despite reports of its closure in April. source: https://www.koha.net/en/arberi/qeveria-thote-se-nuk-ka-marre-njoftim-zyrtar-per-mbyllje-te-mcc-se agency: MCC id: 2m5GmDpN - name: Minority Business Development Agency id: MBDA short_name: MBDA page_slug: independent#eo2 slug: mbda events: - date: 2025-04-09 type: disruption event: >- All but 5 employees are sent expedited 30-day termination notices and placed on immediate administrative leave by DOGE staff. notable: true project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.35.4_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 linked: - Nate Cavanaugh - Keith Sonderling agency: MBDA id: 6j9ucehC - date: 2025-04-(09)~ type: disruption fuzz: Date is unspecified event: The remaining 5 employees of the MBDA are transferred out of the agency. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.35.4_1.pdf project: elimination notable: true case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 linked: - Keith Sonderling - Nate Cavanaugh agency: MBDA id: 36tNGfZ7 - date: 2025-04-17 type: disruption notable: true event: >- According to a sworn declaration by an employee of MBDA, Nate Cavanaugh sends emails terminating MBDA grants under the authority of Keith Sonderling, who is the acting undersecretary of the MBDA named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Keith Sonderling source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.45.1.pdf project: spending case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 agency: MBDA id: 3Jza7CNg - date: 2025-04-30 type: oversight event: >- Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE's takeover and destruction of the agency. named: - Keith Sonderling - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/F6A7EAB6-BACE-4A67-A64D-688BA38A0726 agency: MBDA id: 2LWu3OJM - name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration id: NASA short_name: NASA slug: nasa doge_base: true blurb: >- We largely know about DOGE's activities at NASA because Riley Sennott forgot to make his calendar private. Given the vast involvement of SpaceX at NASA already, observers have naturally been concerned about what sort of industrial espionage or procurement interference that DOGE might get up to. This fear was amplified when Musk ally Jared Isaacman was nominated to lead the agency. However, DOGE's activities at the agency have been the same severe cost-cutting and personnel reduction they've tried everywhere else. Not even science is safe. page_slug: nasa events: - date: 2025-02-13 type: official event: >- NASA leadership replies to a congressional inquiry to report that DOGE had identified a single individual who would be employed at the agency. source: >- https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2.13.25%20NASA%20Response%20to%202.6.25%20SST%20Letter%20on%20DOGE%20Access.pdf agency: NASA id: 537YrWiF - date: 2025-02-14 type: sighting event: The NASA administrator emails all staff to report that "DOGE has arrived" at the agency. source: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/space/2025/02/18/doge-is-at-nasa agency: NASA id: 5aMzCheP - date: 2025-02-19 type: access notable: true event: >- According to one agency employee, DOGE workers are granted access access to contracts, partnerships, performance reviews, classified national-security information, and satellite data, among other materials. project: - spending - personnel fuzz: missing identifications for these systems and staffers source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ agency: NASA id: ZzPoLUUi - date: 2025-03-14 type: access event: >- ProPublica reports that a DOGE detailee at NASA Scott Coulter has "wide access to internal databases at NASA." named: - Scott Coulter source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ agency: NASA id: vfRpqtC4 - date: 2025-03-14 type: directory event: >- A Business Insider article reports that Alexander Simonpour has shown up at NASA and also has a GSA address (meaning he was likely detailed from the GSA). Riley Sennott and Scott Coulter also are listed in the NASA online directory. named: - Alexander Simonpour - Riley Sennott - Scott Coulter source: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-alexander-simonpour-nasa-doge-team-2025-3 agency: NASA id: FHj3Dgcw - date: 2025-04-08 type: oversight source: >- https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/SST%20RM%20Lofgren%20Foushee%20Sykes%20-%20Letter%20to%20Acting%20Administrator%20Petro%20-%20DOGE%20Team%20Access%20-%204.8.25.pdf event: >- A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency. notable: true named: - Alexander Simonpour - Scott Coulter - Riley Sennott agency: NASA id: 3jW4EtlY - date: 2025-07-09 type: disruption event: >- At least 2,145 senior (GS-13 to GS-15) employees at NASA are leaving the agency, due to DOGE's anti-personnel efforts and a proposed budget that would cut the agency budget by 5000 people and 25% of its operating budget. It is unclear if NASA will be able to meet its promise to return astronauts to the moon in 2027 or later send people to Mars with such a reduction in experienced high-level personnel. notable: true project: - spending - personnel agency: NASA source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674 id: 5RgpHIL5 - date: 2025-11-04 type: disruption event: >- Moving under the cover of the government shutdown, NASA leadership has reportedly permanently closed 13 our of 30 buildings on NASA's Goddard Campus and emptied them of equipment and supplies. This includes highly unique equipment for testing satellites as well as components for future missions to observe the earth and the cosmos. notable: true source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/science/nasa-goddard-building-closures-government-shutdown project: elimination agency: NASA id: 734lExfT - name: National Archives id: NARA short_name: NARA slug: nara page_slug: independent#nara events: - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption event: >- President Trump dismisses the Archivist of the United States, the head of the National Archives and the chief official responsible for preserving government records. Marco Rubio is named the Acting Archivist. notable: true named: - Marco Rubio project: - impunity source: - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-archivist-of-the-united-states-colleen-shogan/ - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-named-acting-director-another-us-government-agency-report agency: NARA id: 4pktRrRB - name: National Design Studio id: NDS short_name: NDS slug: nds page_slug: nds blurb: |- In the middle of summer 2025, DOGE found itself in a minor crisis. Elon Musk had left, Steve Davis had spurred a civil war within the organization, and embittered agency heads were starting to assert more power over the DOGE members embedded in their agency, including firing the ones they didn't like. In July, the _Wall Street Journal_ reported that Joe Gebbia had pitched the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on a new design direction for DOGE, using "Mad Men"-style presentation boards to promote a plan for a refurbished National Parks website among others. As the article wryly noted, “Susie listened, There were no major decisions made.” But, it clearly worked. In late August, Trump signed EO 14338, establishing a new office of the National Design Studio within the White House, charged with defining standards for the look and functionality of federal websites. Within a few weeks, Joe Gebbia was named as the first Chief Design Officer of the NDS. Despite this new role, the NDS seems to be following theconfigs: same playbook as DOGE, with the executive order definining a similar Temporary Organization that can be used to hire Special Government Employees without them having to quit their regular work or worry about ethics declarations. Is it just DOGE 2.0? events: - date: 2025-08-21 type: official event: >- President Trump signs EO 14338, which creates the new National Design Studio within the EOP and tasks it with centralizing control over design across the federal government. Joe Gebbia is subsequently named the new Chief Design Officer. Similar to DOGE's structure, the NDS contains a temporary organization within that can be used for hiring Special Government Employees (SGEs) to work for the government on a volunteer basis. project: modernization source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ named: - Joe Gebbia agency: NDS id: ahy1Nwd1 - date: 2025-08-21 type: website event: >- To accompany the creation of the National Design Studio, the organization launches the site [ndstudio.gov](https://ndstudio.gov/) to promote the group. The site features a single page of chunky bold text as well as an email signup form and a place to submit resumes. notable: true project: modernization source: https://ndstudio.gov/ agency: NDS id: 6daELQor - date: 2025-08-21 type: website event: >- The National Design Studio also launches [americabydesign.gov](https://americabydesign.gov/) to promote the America by Design initiative mentioned in EO 14338. This includes the oft-repeated quote from Joe Gebbia that government websites should offer an "Apple Store"-like experience. This site is a single page of large bold text, with a header video of a waving American flag. It also includes an email sign-up form. notable: true source: https://americabydesign.gov/ project: modernization agency: NDS id: 4VNojanE - date: 2025-11-18 type: report event: >- In an interview, Joe Gebbia affirms he has been the Chief Design Officer since being appointed to the role in September, after EO 14338 was issued in August. He also confirms the position is in the White House and reports directly to the Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Although it has an office nearby, Gebbia will primarily be working from his home in Austin, Texas. notable: true named: - Joe Gebbia agency: NDS source: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/18/america-first-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia-interview/ id: 5Mh42icu - date: 2025-12-14 type: website event: >- The National Design Studio launches [merrychristmas.gov](https://merrychristmas.gov), a site for the America Bt Design to highlight 12 days of "GovDesign History." In a marked departure from typical NDS style, this page features smaller text on a white background, snow that can be toggled on and off and a different URL for each day as well as a page linking to NORAD's Santa tracker. These pages meant the site comprises 14 pages in total (the largest for any NDS site) source: https://merrychristmas.gov/ project: modernization agency: NDS id: tsbRoy9p - date: 2025-12-26 agency: NDS type: website event: >- The National Design Studio launches a new blog named "Dev Index" with an article written about the modernization work at OPM for digitizing retirements that apparently has moved over to the NDS from OPM with Joe Gebbia. The article is written by Yat Choi and Dennis Li and thanks Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell for reviewing the content. named: - Dennis Li - Yat Choi - Edward Coristine - Zach Terrell source: https://ndstudio.gov/posts/automating-federal-retirements id: GIiWS7ul - date: 2026-01-23 type: report event: >- Speaking in a podcast interview, Joe Gebbia reports that the National Design Studio is working to revise every government website, adding that "look like they’re from the mid-90s." He also states that the NDS is going to deliver a refresh of some existing websites by July 4, 2026 and that the team will eventually consist of approximately 15 engineers and 15 designers and is currently employing brilliant veterans of Silicon Valley. source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2026/01/national-design-studio-looks-to-overhaul-27000-federal-websites-and-is-hiring-a-team-to-do-it/ project: modernization agency: NDS named: - Joe Gebbia id: 2jh8y0p8 - date: 2026-02-21 type: report event: >- In a tweet on his personal account on X, Edward Coristine claims that the source code for freedom.gov will be open-sourced for public review. source: https://xcancel.com/as400495/status/2025025375126831371 named: - Edward Coristine agency: - NDS id: 60QWiObh - date: 2026-02-23 type: directory event: >- An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn't been mentioned previously. source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/02/new-white-house-design-team-aims-delightful-websites-changing-design-ethos-process/411560/ agency: NDS named: - Joe Gebbia - Edward Coristine - Kaitlyn Koller - Tai Groot - Caelin Sutch - Greg Hogan - Nate Brown - Jaylee Adams - Tyler Kim - Braden Steffaniak id: 1PavMjQz - date: 2026-02-27 type: official event: >- Posting with the title of Director of Engineering, Edward Coristine publishes a blog post on the National Design Studio website about how NDS is elevating the importance of accessibility in its designs and citing its work on trumprx.gov specifically. named: - Edward Coristine source: https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters agency: NDS id: 3J4uN4Vz - date: 2026-04-14 type: website event: >- Working with the Freedom 250 task force established by the Trump Administratration, the National Design Studio launches a new site [freedom250.org](https://freedom250.org/) to promote the Freedom 250 project. This includes a history section looking at the founders that created by a conservative Christian college, a highly-constrained AI chat assistant and a calendar of events that includes a Christian revivalist prayer tent, info about "Freedom Trucks" that will visit locations across the US and several sporting events including the Patriot Games where two teens are selected from each state to compete in sporting events. It also includes a list of corporate sponsors for the commission, most of whom are also selling products and services to the federal government, as well as multiple conservative religious organizations as partners. source: - >- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5830885-freedom-250-website-us-semiquincentennial-trump-administration/ - https://freedom250.org/ project: modernization agency: - NDS id: v915Hjna - date: 2026-05-03 type: official event: >- Tyler Kim and Caelin Sutch publish a blog post on the National Design Studio site about how they have incorporated an AI agent into the [freedom250.org](https://freedom250.org/) navigation. They don't mention which AI it is using as a model, but it does describe some of the attempts to apply safety guardrails through tweaking the model's randomness and mentions that it is using the Vercel AI SDK. project: modernization named: - Caelin Sutch - Tyler Kim source: https://ndstudio.gov/posts/making-ai-useful agency: - NDS id: 1qkkWxDW - name: National Endowment for the Arts id: NEA short_name: NEA slug: nea page_slug: independent#arts events: - date: 2025-05-02 type: disruption event: >- Hundreds of arts groups across the country receive emails informing them that their grants from the NEA have been terminated. These emails originate from a generic `arts.gov` email address and arrive late on Friday hours after Trump proposes eliminating the agency in his budget. notable: true linked: - Marshall Wood project: spending source: >- https://www.npr.org/2025/05/03/nx-s1-5385888/sweeping-cuts-hit-nea-after-trump-administration-calls-to-eliminate-the-agency agency: NEA id: SY6QhbUj - name: National Endowment for the Humanities id: NEH short_name: NEH slug: neh page_slug: independent#arts events: - date: 2025-03-12 type: disruption event: >- Shelly C. Lowe, the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is forced out of her position by President Trump. She is replaced by Michael McDonald as acting chairman. notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump-shelly-lowe.html agency: NEH id: jH38H7KC - date: 2025-03-12 type: disruption event: >- Immediately after the removal of the agency's chair by the Trump administration, DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox contact NEH IT for access to key systems and arrive at the agency. notable: true project: elimination source: - >- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/04/16/doge-comes-for-the-little-guy-00294469 - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox agency: NEH id: 6xNXvDgl - date: 2025-03-(30)~ fuzz: date only given as a few days prior to termination type: disruption event: >- Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox gain access to the system at NEH for approving and administering grants. Justin Fox proceeds to look for grant descriptions containing words like “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant" to eliminate for promoting DEI. He organized grants into a "Craziest Grants" and "Other Bad Grants" list, presumably for DOGE or the administration to use for promotional purposes. He also started asking ChatGPT to answer yes or no if individual grants "relate at all to DEI" and using that to mark grants for deletion without any further review. notable: true project: spending named: - Justin Fox linked: - Nate Cavanaugh agency: NEH source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.118.1.pdf id: 3sjuA8YF - date: 2025-03-31 type: disruption event: >- Justin Fox sends a letter to the acting head of the NEH, Michael McDonald, expressing frustration that the agency is not moving quickly enough to terminate grants. In his letter, he writes "We’re getting pressure from the top on this and we’d prefer that you remain on our side but let us know if you’re no longer interested." project: - spending - elimination named: - Justin Fox linked: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html agency: NEH id: 41szDfhS - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- In a response to Justin Fox asking about cuts, NEH Chairman Michael McDonald advocates for not cutting some proposed grants, but notes: "But you have also told us that in addition to canceling projects because they may promote DEI ideology, the DOGE Team also wishes to cancel funding to assist deficit reduction. Either way, as you’ve made clear, it’s your decision on whether to discontinue funding any of the projects on this list." project: - spending named: - Justin Fox linked: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html agency: NEH id: 6sZmyxDX - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- NEH staff members are informed that DOGE is seeking a 70-80% reduction in staff and a cancellation of any grants made under the Biden administration that were not already fully disbursed. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf project: - spending - elimination named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox agency: NEH id: 1HLf6W8y - date: 2025-04-02 type: disruption event: >- Approximately 1500 grantees receive grant cancellation emails sent from a nonstandard email address and bypassing the normal grant review process. The domain for the email address `Grant_Notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com` suggests it was sent from a global admin account for Microsoft Entra, an access-control system used at the agency. The Acting Director of the NEH seems unaware of the messages. The content of the message cites an incorrect executive order as its justification, suggesting it was copied from an earlier email that was sent to IAF and USADF grantees after their DOGE takeover. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf project: spending linked: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox agency: NEH id: 3MPjhmac - date: 2025-04-03 type: disruption event: >- 145 NEH staff members (approximately 80% of workforce) are abruptly placed on administrative leave and locked out of system access. The remaining employees are pressured by Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox to formally conduct a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) as quickly as possible. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf project: elimination named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Fox agency: NEH id: 6TOjUicO - date: 2025-04-10 type: disruption event: >- Most NEH staffers receive Reduction-in-Force (RIF) notices that their positions will be terminated on June 10th. project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf agency: NEH id: 7OKOH3M3 - date: 2025-04-24 type: disruption event: >- NEH posts a public solicitation of up to $17 million in grants total for statues in a "National Garden of American Heroes." Such grants would normally be made by the NEA, which is also offering similar separate grants for this project. This is also unusual, in that most NEH grants are dispersed broadly across many projects and are rarely for more than $500,000. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf agency: NEH id: WqzaqPWP - date: 2025-05-20 type: action event: >- Justin Fox sends a message to the Acting Chair of NEH stating "Ringing to give you a heads-up that the DOGE team is planning to make an X post on NEH highlighting a few of the crazy DEI grants from Biden-era administration and reiterating that NEH grants going forward will be merit-based and awarded to nonDEI, pro-America causes" named: - Justin Fox agency: NEH source: https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-1.pdf id: 47PKHGQQ - date: 2025-06-10 type: disruption event: >- The Trump administration leadership at NEH conducts a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) and lays off an estimated 100 employees at NEH. All total, approximately two-thirds of the agency staff are estimated to have lost their jobs by this point, with only 60 or so remaining at the agency. source: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/neh-staff-layoffs-trump-administration-1234745069/ agency: NEH id: 32DCNzTK - date: 2025-09-15 type: official event: >- The National Endowment for the Humanities awards the largest single group in the agency's history to a single group, granting $10.4 million to a conservative Jewish educational group, despite being rejected by the agency's board over concerns the project was too partisan and the application too vague. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump.html agency: NEH id: 4gjzPTva - date: 2025-10-01 type: disruption event: >- In an email sent to members of the National Council on the Humanities, the White House fires all the people on this board which advises the National Endowment for the Humanities source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/arts/trump-neh-firings.html project: impunity agency: NEH id: 5m4mnRNH - date: 2026-01-23 type: legal notable: true event: Nate Cavanaugh testifies in a deposition related to _American Council of Learned Societies v. NEH_ named: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.historians.org/why-history-matters/aha-advocacy/lawsuit-to-restore-the-neh/ agency: NEH id: NG0kwT67 - date: 2026-01-28 type: legal notable: true event: >- Justin Fox testifies in a deposition related to _American Council of Learned Societies v. NEH_. He states he has no access to NEH or GSA equipment and that all of the communications related to mass terminations at NEH were done on his GSA laptop. He also admits to communicating with DOGE staffers before and after hiring on Signal. He states that Anythony Armstrong specifically used Signal to send him messages related to DOGE leadership priorities, and that Anthony Armstrong was very focused about using Signal. named: - Justin Fox source: - https://www.historians.org/why-history-matters/aha-advocacy/lawsuit-to-restore-the-neh/ - https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-1.pdf agency: NEH id: 7hD8zJI5 - date: 2026-05-07 type: legal event: >- Ruling on two separate lawsuits against the NEH that were merged into a single case, Judge McMahon issued a 143-page ruling declaring DOGE's grant cancellations at the agency were unconstitutional and caused irreparable harm to the plaintiffs. She ruled that the law does not allow an administration to cancel grants just because it disagrees with a previous administration or wants to direct funds elsewhere. It is unclear how this ruling might affect cases against grant cancellations at other agencies. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/neh-grants-lawsuit-doge.html project: - spending - dei agency: NEH id: MUAopKga - name: The National Gallery of Art id: NationalGallery short_name: Nat Gallery slug: national-gallery-art page_slug: independent#arts events: - date: 2025-04-18 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff reportedly meet with the leaders of the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art to discuss its legal status and funding. The National Gallery of Art is not an executive agency. fuzz: DOGE representatives not named source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/washington-dc-national-gallery-of-art-gets-a-visit-from-doge agency: NationalGallery id: fXhN7of8 - name: National Labor Relations Board id: NLRB short_name: NLRB slug: nlrb page_slug: nlrb blurb: >- DOGE first arrived at this relatively small and independent agency that ensures that the union rights of workers are protected at the end of February, and they quickly proceeded to do the same scuttling of contracts and termination of employees that they have tried at other agencies under the guide of "IT modernization." However, it appears they also tried to remove sensitive data from the agency, and thanks to a whistleblower, we are now able to see some sophisticated attacks that were made against IT resources at the agency. events: - date: 2025-01-27 type: disruption event: >- President Trump illegally fires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Gwynne Wilcox and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo from the agency's board. This leaves the agency without quorum to act. notable: true project: impunity source: https://thefulcrum.us/business-democracy/department-of-labor-doge agency: NLRB id: gC3dPbGm - date: 2025-02-20 type: disruption event: >- Employees at the NLRB are alarmed to see that DOGE has claimed on its website that it has cancelled the lease for their office in Buffalo, NY. project: spending source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nlrb-office-lease-doge-wall-of-receipts_n_67b76046e4b05145b9c4ca05 agency: NLRB id: hi8dBSUn - date: 2025-02-(24)~ type: sighting fuzz: The testimony only mentions that this communication happened sometime during that week event: >- Staffers at the NLRB are informed that DOGE will be arriving at the agency the following week and that they have questions about the agency's network architecture. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: NLRB id: Gjp7Za9k - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- After a journalist posts info that Jordan Wick's github profile is public, a staffer an NLRB notices a project of his named NxGenBdoorExtract. The name seems to indicate it's a tool for exfiltrating data from a sensitive NLRB system named NxGen. notable: true project: impunity named: - Jordan Wick source: >- https://www.wrvo.org/2025-04-15/a-whistleblowers-disclosure-details-how-doge-may-have-taken-sensitive-labor-data agency: NLRB id: Tfm8WCy5 - date: 2025-03-03 type: sighting event: >- A black SUV and police escort bring DOGE staff to the NLRB. The DOGE staff weren't introduced and didn't interact with IT staff directly. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: NLRB id: YGXGph6H - date: 2025-03-03 type: access event: >- The NLRB Assistant CIO conveys instructions that there are to be no logs or records made of accounts that are created for DOGE staff and they are to be given "tenant"-level accounts with read/write/admin for all systems as part of their auditing work. This level of access exceed existing permissions that would normally be used by auditors. notable: true project: impunity source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: NLRB id: JX2L2qyH - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: >- NLRB network staff notice the existence of an anomalous container on their network that could be performing unauthorized actions. Its storage tokens have been expired, deterring analysis of what resources it might have accessed. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: NLRB id: FcsxtUH6 - date: 2025-03-05 type: disruption event: >- NLRB network staff discover that a security tool for watching network traffic within their cloud environment was manually deactivated and was not logging the creation of new network nodes. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: BbaC77YN - date: 2025-03-05 type: disruption event: >- A NLRB network staffer notices a large spike in outgoing network traffic from their network with no corresponding incoming traffic (as might be the case for web traffic hitting the website). He also sees a surge in DNS requests which might be used to hide tunnels for stealing data. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: ciCnnoWL - date: 2025-03-06 type: disruption event: >- NLRB network staff an account a DOGE-specific name `DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com` that was recently created and then deleted. It seems to have been configured to allow automated scripts to access NLRB's cloud. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: AwZqKm8V - date: 2025-03-06 type: disruption event: >- After various users reported login problems to the service desk, networking staff at NLRB discover that certain conditional access policies had been updated without their awareness. This change was later confirmed to not be the result of any scheduled maintenance. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: h7dbfrDa - date: 2025-03-07 type: disruption event: >- Networking staff at NLRB discovered that 3 Github libraries were downloaded in the prior 30 days by DOGE staff at the agency which could be used for scraping high volumes of data and obscuring the source requests. notable: true source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: E8dm99Qt - date: 2025-03-07 type: disruption event: >- Networking staff at NLRB makes a determination that 10GB of data was likly exfiltrated from the NxGen case management system and then outwards from NLRB. Given that this volume of data is likely compressed, it could represent an even larger amount of source data stolen. notable: true source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: 7dYjooeh - date: 2025-03-11 type: disruption event: >- NLRB networking staff notice another surge in system utilization for the NxGen system. This coincides with multiple attempts to connect to the system from an IP address in Russia. Alarmingly, the Russian access is attempting to use an account that was created only 15 minutes earlier by DOGE engineers at the agency. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: Z4dqQQ9k - date: 2025-03-13 type: disruption event: >- NLRB networking staff detect another large transfer of data from NLRB systems to an external endpoint. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: brAMUrRM - date: 2025-03-19 type: disruption event: >- NLRB networking staff observe a spike in billing records from their cloud provider which are seemingly related to systems that are no longer in operation. These likely indicate resources that were short-lived or deleted to cover up tracks. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf project: impunity agency: NLRB id: bw2Rw3Hj - date: 2025-04-14 type: disruption event: >- On the day that NPR published a story with the claims of a whistleblower at the NLRB, the Deputy CIO of the agency, Eric Mark, suspends administrative access for all employees, locking the IT staff out of their ability to continue monitoring DOGE's actions at the agency. notable: true source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/ project: impunity agency: NLRB id: 7x2jXvup - date: 2025-04-16 type: sighting event: >- Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh are detailed from the GSA to work at the NLRB over the next few months. They meet with the Chairman, Acting Senior Counsel and other senior board members. The DOGE staff requested access to 7 HR systems at NLRB. project: - personnel named: - Justin Fox - Nate Cavanaugh comment: Date is from an NPR piece source: - >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-boards-doge-detailees-connected-to-agency-take-downs - https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108774/index.html agency: NLRB id: eCQoxNRz - date: 2025-04-24 type: access event: >- The NLRB authorized the creation of accounts for 2 of the 7 HR systems and rejected access for the other 5. Despite creating accounts for the DOGE staff, they did not ever pick up their NLRB laptops and did not access the accounts. source: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108774/index.html agency: NLRB id: Bi1mWUuS - date: 2025-05-15 type: oversight event: >- The NLRB confirms that its Inspector General is looking into the allegations of improper network access and data theft by DOGE. project: impunity source: >- https://fedscoop.com/national-labor-relations-board-watchdog-investigating-doge-potential-data-breach/ agency: NLRB id: 5KA5f7HR - date: 2025-06-16 type: oversight event: >- The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sends a letter to Microsoft requesting access and information about Jordan Wick's now-private Github account, specifically requesting to see details about the NxGenBdoorExtract program. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5435330/congress-doge-nlrb-whistleblower-github agency: NLRB id: 6w8Oownm - date: 2025-07-25 type: offboard event: >- The DOGE staff detailed to NLRB end their detail at the agency. During the entire time, they never picked up their work laptops nor did they access 2 systems they were authorized for. That access is revoked. project: personnel source: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108774/index.html agency: NLRB id: 6PJa9uN4 - date: 2026-04-28 type: oversight event: >- The Government Accountability Office releases a report of an investigation in DOGE activities at the agency. It found that GSA detailed two staffers to NLRB and they did not access any agency IT systems there. It does also mention that a whistleblower reported illegal access in March 2025, but that is being investigated by the agency Inspector General agency: NLRB source: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108774/index.html id: 1ykqIXgg - name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration id: NOAA short_name: NOAA slug: noaa parent_id: Commerce page_slug: commerce doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-04 type: sighting notable: true event: DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland. source: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-nominates-noaa-head-neil-jacobs named: - Nikhil Rajpal comment: This was later identified to include Nikhil Rajpal agency: NOAA id: CvdXhiXD - date: 2025-05-16 type: disruption event: >- Because of DOGE-directed cuts, a National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY did not have an overnight forecaster who is able to track and forecast tornado watches for a storm sweeping across the state. project: personnel source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/weather/nws-cuts-kentucky-tornado.html agency: NOAA id: 7kWAzJ0K - date: 2025-08-05 type: disruption event: >- The National Weather Center announces it has approval to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians back to the department. This includes 126 new positions beyond what was cut by DOGE. Despite being a step towards restoration, this action will likely not put people in place until after the current dangerous hurricane season is over and it might be a pretext to hire more politically-aligned staff in positions with flimsier job security. source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/weather/nws-rehiring-doge-layoffs-climate project: personnel agency: NOAA id: 6u247vQ9 - date: 2025-09-27 type: disruption event: >- The head of the union that represents employees at the National Weather Service reports that the agency is at a breaking point, with many employees working double shifts or seeking help from neighboring offices. Two offices – in California's Central Valley and western Kansas – lack enough staff to operate 24 hours a day. notable: true source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/27/nation/nws-trump-administration-layoffs/ project: personnel agency: NOAA id: 1sTlqrtz - name: National Institute of Health id: NIH short_name: NIH slug: nih parent_id: HHS page_slug: health doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-24 type: directory event: >- Four DOGE staffers are identified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor. named: - Luke Farritor - Rachel Riley - Jeremy Lewin - Clark Minor source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ agency: NIH id: khMRYKRf - date: 2025-02-24 type: access event: >- Three DOGE staffers – Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Clark Minor – are listed as part of the NIH Business System Department. This would grant them access to NIH's central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system project: - spending - personnel named: - Luke Farritor - Rachel Riley - Clark Minor source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ agency: NIH id: 4Ffvq4fv - date: 2025-03-03 type: sighting source: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-trump-controlled-nih-begins-targeted event: >- DOGE lawyer Joshua Hanley's name appeared in PDF metadata of grant cancellations sent out by the NIH to two researchers working on LGBTQ+-related scientific work. project: personnel named: - Joshua Hanley agency: NIH id: o7wBfLA8 - date: 2025-03-(10)~ type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff meet with career officials at NIH and are adamant that 3000 positions should be terminated. The number does not appear to be derived from any analysis or consultation with NIH senior leadership for what a responsible staffing reduction might be. notable: true project: personnel agency: NIH source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208.1.0_3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01750 id: 1CBgjoor - date: 2025-03-20 type: disruption event: >- Access to purchase cards are restored at NIH for nonemergency purchases, but scientists face a huge backlog in processing orders for supplies. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/nih-doge-trump.html project: spending agency: NIH id: aUVDPFfS - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- HHS terminates a large number of staff at NIH in the name of cost savings and realignment. This coincides with the new head of NIH being sworn in to office. project: - personnel - spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-federal-layoffs-health-food.html agency: NIH id: H3tom9FE - date: 2025-04-XX type: disruption event: >- A team of three DOGE staffers – Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Zach Terrell – meet with chief grant management officials at NIH to demand changes in how grants are issued under DOGE's new "Defend the Spend" authority over all grant disbursement. notable: true project: spending named: - Edward Coristine - Luke Farritor - Zach Terrell source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/8/doge-blocks-nih-grants/ agency: NIH id: 25Pj1j7H - date: 2025-06-02 type: disruption event: >- NIH staff are forced to send all grant proposals through an AI tool that looks for topics banned by the Trump administration. This includes topics like "DEI, transgender, China, or vaccine hesitancy." Staff are also ordered to check that medical research grants aren't being awarded to certain schools like Harvard or Columbia which are seen as enemies of Trump. notable: true project: - dei - modernization - spending source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/02/doge-vowed-make-government-more-efficient-its-doing-opposite/ agency: NIH id: 7Ua8GS3j - date: 2025-06-09 type: report event: >- More than 60 employees at NIH sign their names to a public letter condemning the degradation of the agency under the Trump Administration. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/health/nih-letter-trump-bhattacharya.html agency: NIH id: 53sknuGQ - date: 2025-08-26 type: disruption event: >- The Chief Information Officer for NIH departs her role after only eight months on the job. She was the first CIO at NIH after a vacancy of two years and it's unclear if anybody at NIH will serve as Acting CIO. source: https://fedscoop.com/nih-cio-adele-merritt-departure-university-of-maryland/ project: impunity agency: NIH id: 7THZG9MP - name: National Institute of Standards and Technology slug: nist short_name: NIST page_slug: commerce id: NIST parent_id: Commerce events: - date: 2025-02-14 type: sighting event: >- NIST workers witness a handful of people that they suspect of being DOGE touring the NIST IT facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland. source: >- https://www.wired.com/story/the-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-braces-for-mass-firings/ agency: NIST id: TRTyxS2E - date: 2025-04-02 type: oversight source: >- https://mcclaindelaney.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/mcclaindelaney.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/amd-letter-to-sec-lutnik-re-nist-probationary-and-rif-plans-v.f.pdf event: >- A group of 22 house members send a letter to Commerce Secretary Lutnick expressing concern about the firing of 70 staffers at NIST. agency: NIST id: HoTTKNtS - name: National Science Foundation id: NSF short_name: NSF slug: nsf page_slug: independent#nsf events: - date: 2025-04-14 type: sighting event: >- Three unidentified DOGE staffers show up at NSF headquarters, forcing all approved grants to go through a "secondary review." They were later identified as Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell. notable: true project: spending comment: These three were named in later reporting, so adding here linked: - Luke Farritor - Zach Terrell - Rachel Riley source: https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-halts-grant-awards-while-staff-do-second-review agency: NSF id: UyobwqMu - date: 2025-04-18 type: disruption event: >- In retribution against Harvard University for rejecting demands from the Trump Administration on April 14th, the National Science Foundation begins rejecting scientific grants, stating they weren't in alignment with current NSF priorities. notable: true project: - spending - dei source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ agency: NSF id: 3EfTSjmu - date: 2025-04-22 type: directory event: >- Three DOGE staffers are now at the National Science Foundation reviewing grants. Luke Farritor has a "Budget, Finance, and Administration" clearance, which a source said allows him to view and modify the agency's funding opportunity system. project: spending named: - Luke Farritor - Zach Terrell - Rachel Riley source: https://fedscoop.com/national-science-foundation-nsf-doge-grants-data-systems/ agency: NSF id: meBB4VsV - date: 2025-07-22 type: report event: >- Over 140 NSF employees sign a public letter condemning Trump's destructive acts towards the agency. These include the surprise announcement that the agency HQ will be taken over by HUD, the termination of 10% of the agency workforce and DOGE's cancellation of more than 1600 active grants. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/science/trump-science-foundation-letter.html project: - spending - personnel agency: NSF id: OjimcrFG - name: National Nuclear Safety Administration id: NNSA short_name: NNSA slug: nnsa events: [] - name: National Security Agency id: NSA short_name: NSA slug: nsa page_slug: defense parent_id: DOD events: - date: 2025-03-12 type: interagency event: >- Elon Musk visits the National Security Agency (NSA) to meet with its top administrator, General Timothy Haugh interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Elon Musk source: >- https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-made-secret-visit-to-u-s-spy-agency-9b0b64e2?mod=hp_lead_pos5 agency: NSA id: QZojvztE - date: 2025-04-02 type: disruption event: >- The head and deputy leader of the NSA are both relieved of their command by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html agency: NSA id: ATa2VGxh - name: National Transportation Safety Board id: NTSB short_name: NTSB slug: ntsb page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-05-21 type: official event: >- A spokesperson for the NTSB confirmed that a DOGE team had recently been assigned to the agency to review its operations. agency: NTSB source: >- https://www.reuters.com/en/doge-team-assigned-review-national-transportation-safety-board-operations-2025-05-21/ id: 4h8xjbch - name: Nuclear Regulatory Commission id: NRC short_name: NRC slug: nrc page_slug: energy events: - date: 2025-05-20 type: official event: >- A memo directed to NRC from the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) declares that OIRA should have oversight over regulations made at the independent agency and that NRC staff "may not know or be privy to the bases for OMB decisions for why an action is significant.” notable: true source: https://www.energyintel.com/00000197-3ceb-d30d-a79f-beeb5ff40000 project: impunity agency: NRC id: 28wzRBnN - date: 2025-05-23 type: official event: >- President Trump issues EO 14300, which orders the NRC to relax its regulatory oversight over the nuclear industry. It also demands that the agency must plan for a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) and realign its organizational priorities. Following the model used by the Trump Administration for other independent agencies, this is probably the prelude for DOGE to arrive at the agency. source: >- https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14300-ordering-the-reform-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission project: - impunity - personnel agency: NRC id: 6oj0XhzA - date: 2025-06-(02)~ type: action event: >- In a meeting shortly after Trump signed executive orders relating to the NRC, DOGE staffer Adam Blake reportedly told the chair and top staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they would be expected to "rubber stamp" any reactor designs which might be tested by the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense. notable: true named: - Adam Blake project: impunity fuzz: Meeting date just given as "early June" source: - https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-told-regulator-to-rubber-stamp-nuclear/ - https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-the-nrc-lost-its-independence/ agency: NRC id: 2QEcj42r - date: 2025-06-16 type: disruption event: >- White House Deputy Director Trent Morse sends a letter firing one of the five members of the board (and the only Biden appointee) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. project: impunity named: - Trent Morse source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5435285/trump-fires-nuclear-regulatory-commission-member-nrc agency: NRC id: WOPqsi6l - date: 2025-07-11 type: sighting event: >- In a written response to questions from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the nominee to head the NRC reveals there is currently one DOGE staffer (reported as Adam Blake) detailed to the agency from the Department of Energy to reform the agency following the guidance in EO 14300. source: >- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5397152-doge-staffer-trump-reforms-nrc-nuclear-regulatory-commission/ named: - Adam Blake agency: NRC id: 6ooRu0xC - date: 2025-09-03 type: oversight event: >- At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing, Democratic members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shared that they fear they could be fired by Trump for enforcing nuclear safety regulations. Under questioning, the NRC chair confirmed there was a meeting where NRC was told it would be expected to "rubber-stamp" any reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense. NRC Chair David Wright also testified that there were currently 7 DOGE staffers at the agency. One of them has had prior experience at a nuclear plant and another, Adam Blake, did not have an NRC supervisor. notable: true named: - Adam Blake source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/dem-nrc-members-warn-they-could-be-fired-over-safety-decisions/ agency: NRC id: 2DloIUjj - name: Office of the Director of National Intelligence id: ODNI slug: odni short_name: ODNI events: [] - name: Office of Management and Budget id: OMB short_name: OMB slug: omb parent_id: EOP page_slug: white-house events: - date: 2025-01-27 type: onboard event: >- Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Federal Chief Information Officer, a role which places him in charge of the CIO Council at OMB that coordinates the activities of federal CIOs. Over the next six months, multiple DOGE members will also be named as Acting CIOs at various agencies. notable: true project: impunity agency: OMB named: - Greg Barbaccia source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gregory-barbacia-named-federal-cio/402501/ id: 2fM5R0ON - date: 2025-02-06 type: onboard event: >- Russell Vought is confirmed by Congress as the Director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget. notable: true source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/russ-vought-trump-omb-spending-00203006 named: - Russell Vought agency: OMB id: oYFfoCTu - name: Office of Personnel Management id: OPM short_name: OPM slug: opm page_slug: self blurb: |- One of the ways in which DOGE surprised everybody was how it turned a relatively sleepy agency into a weapon against the entire government bureaucracy. Created by law in 1978, OPM's main role before now was to standardize government policies around personnel and to offer shared services for human capital like the federal health plans. It also tracks all the paperwork around hiring, promotions, changes and retirement. And so, for most federal staff, their main interactions with OPM were receiving paperwork they were hired, fired or retired; or picking a health plan; or looking at the rules around various practices. But, all the other aspects of human resources were handled by their own agencies. Federal staff are hired to their specific agencies, their performance rankings are defined by their agency, they're promoted by their agencies, they're paid by their agencies, they follow the HR policies of their agencies. OPM provides the guidance, but it's the agencies that implement it. This is why OPM's turn towards the dark side has been so confounding. Very early on, DOGE concentrated a large number of staff within OPM to capture control of the centralized databases and install a new email server to send/receive messages from every federal worker. The acting director was forced out and replaced by Charles Ezell, who then let DOGE wall off an area and keep out permanent agency staff. DOGE also brought in a slew of HR executives from startups who seemingly expected the agency to work for the entire federal government in the same way that HR operates within a single company. And so, they started acting like OPM had more centralized authority: ordering workers to the "five things" email; blasting [commands to human capital officers at other agencies](https://www.chcoc.gov/transmittals); asking for lists of workers so they could command agencies to fire probationary workers and short-cut established procedures for reductions in force. OPM used to be deliberative and formal with its rulemaking - the new OPM was fond of sending out memos to all agencies on Wednesdays demanding a response by Friday. None of this was normal; some of it was [probably illegal](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing). And the breach in trust has been irrevocable. doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-01-(16)~ type: action event: >- According to his later sworn testimony, Noah Peters meets with Keenan Kmiec to outline his plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees from being able to do their work and counter or monitor DOGE's activities at their agencies. project: - personnel - impunity fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition named: - Noah Peters - Keenan Kmiec source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.188.1.pdf case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: KLhbExN5 - date: 2025-01-(16)~ type: action event: >- Noah Peters receives a formal job offer to work at OPM. He describes it in a court disposition as being very general and vague. fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition named: - Noah Peters source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.188.1.pdf case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: VkGMhZUR - date: 2025-01-(16)~ type: action event: >- Noah Peters starts drafting two memos for OPM. One concerns temporary authorities for Schedule C and the other is on how to handle both probationary employees and admininstrative leave. These are to be issued on January 20th. project: personnel fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition named: - Noah Peters source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.188.1.pdf case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: JLTME6KA - date: 2025-01-17 type: action event: >- Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM. named: - Noah Peters - Amanda Scales - Brian Bjelde source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.188.1.pdf case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: JQXwpLN5 - date: 2025-01-20 type: disruption event: >- Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO. named: - Charles Ezell - Greg Hogan project: personnel source: https://www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-associates-given-unfettered agency: OPM id: GSsFm4n8 - date: 2025-01-20 type: directory event: Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director. agency: OPM named: - Anthony Armstrong - Riccardo Biasini - Brian Bjelde - Akash Bobba - Gavin Kliger - Noah Peters - Amanda Scales - Joanna Wischer source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers project: personnel id: 4F5kEan6 - date: 2025-01-20 type: sighting event: >- The DOGE team moves into a secure office within OPM, installing sofa beds and armed security to prevent other staff from entry. notable: true source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/ project: impunity agency: OPM id: BbMpQoge - date: 2025-01-20 type: access event: >- IT staff at OPM are pulled into a "911-esque call" requesting that "a political team" of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03, OPM-05 and OPM-07. These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf project: - personnel - impunity named: - Charles Ezell - Greg Hogan - Amanda Scales named_aliases: - OPM-03 - OPM-05 - OPM-07 case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 agency: OPM id: DAe2NKHp - date: 2025-01-20 agency: OPM type: disruption event: >- Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM report that their database access was completely revoked by DOGE staff working at the agency. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 id: 592OFjrH - date: 2025-01-23 type: official event: >- OPM sends out a first test email to all federal staff from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES). source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-confuses-government-workers-email-test-message/ project: personnel agency: OPM id: YcNgC9Yg - date: 2025-01-24 type: onboard event: Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM agency: OPM named: - Jacob Altik - Nikhil Rajpal source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers id: 58t4DLaO - date: 2025-01-26 type: official event: >- OPM sends a second test email from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to all government employees. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820.1.0.pdf project: personnel case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: 6aVWvZQH - date: 2025-01-27 type: access event: >- Charles Ezell sends an email to OPM IT staff stating that OPM-02, OPM-04, and OPM-06 "urgently" need access to several sensitive systems within the agency. named: - Charles Ezell project: impunity named_aliases: - OPM-02 - OPM-04 - OPM-06 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 agency: OPM id: 6SWKtlSa - date: 2025-01-27 type: disruption event: >- A member of the OPM union posts a Reddit message reportedly from an OPM employee which states that the email server is a piece of outside equipment and the its goal is to generate lists of all govt employees in order to send massive firing notices later. named: - Amanda Scales project: personnel source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820.1.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: UBodNip9 - date: 2025-01-27 type: legal event: >- Two anonymous federal employees file a class action lawsuit against OPM for launching the new email system without conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment for the new system source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820.1.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: QiLxs5iA - date: 2025-01-28 type: official event: >- OPM sends out the "Fork in the Road" email to all federal employees offering them a chance to resign, in exchange for six month of administrative leave and protection from termination. notable: true source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hr-elon-musk-resignation-fork-road-leaked-staff-meeting/ project: personnel agency: OPM id: 7ASZnW7s - date: 2025-01-28 type: directory event: >- Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM. fuzz: didn't name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them comment: >- This report originally did not mention Edward Coristine or Akash Bobba by name because of their ages, but Wired revealed it later linked: - Edward Coristine - Akash Bobba named: - Amanda Scales - Riccardo Biasini - Noah Peters - Joanna Wischer source: >- https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/ agency: OPM id: 3GL4CR65 - date: 2025-01-28 type: onboard event: >- Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert. named: - Justin Monroe - Christopher Stanley source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers agency: OPM id: 1KTKczl5 - date: 2025-01-28 type: access event: >- OPM grants OPM-02, OPM-04, and OPM-06 full administrative access to the systems USAJOBS, USA Staffing, USA Performance, eOPF, and EHRI. This access included “[c]ode read and write permissions.” named_aliases: - OPM-02 - OPM-04 - OPM-06 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 agency: OPM id: 2v67bjVr - date: 2025-01-30 type: onboard event: Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at OPM. named: - Austin Raynor - Chris Young source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers agency: OPM id: 3tG7l53P - date: 2025-01-31 type: disruption event: >- Federal employees at OPM report they are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership. project: impunity named: - Charles Ezell - Amanda Scales - Riccardo Biasini source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/ agency: OPM id: GmvBm6qi - date: 2025-02-XX type: disruption event: >- Unnamed engineers working for DOGE within OPM reportedly used Meta's Llama AI model running locally on OPM servers to analyze responses to the "Fork in the Road" resignation offer. source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-used-meta-ai-model-review-fork-emails-from-federal-workers/ project: - personnel - modernization agency: OPM linked: - Riccardo Biasini id: 5N97IVsN - date: 2025-02-03 type: report event: >- Brian Bjelde holds a meeting with senior staff at OPM, directing them to prepare plans to eliminate 70% of the agency's workforce at some unspecified point in the future. They are also told to identify 30% of staff that could be eliminated in the near term. notable: true project: - personnel - elimination named: - Brian Bjelde source: >- https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-presidency-news-02-03-25#cm6pc1pkt001v3b6ms777chnl agency: OPM id: 3N9M9fo1 - date: 2025-02-03 type: onboard event: >- Several more DOGE staffers (Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski) start working at OPM. All of them come from HR backgrounds in Musk-affiliated companies. named: - Stephen Duarte - Christina Hanna - Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski agency: OPM source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers id: 15xKjpfm - date: 2025-02-05 type: legal event: >- OPM attests the Government-Wide Email System runs only on agency systems (and is not hosted in an external provider, which would be a violation of federal IT policy). source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/controversial-opm-email-server-operates-entirely-on-government-computers-agency-says/ar-AA1yujjr case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: ANRquZpT - date: 2025-02-05 type: official event: >- OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) which states responses to its messages are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information from federal staffers. source: https://fedscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/03/2025-02-05_-_11-1_-_D_-_Ex._A_-_PIA.pdf agency: OPM id: dv9APoYU - date: 2025-02-06 type: legal event: >- DOGE member and lawyer Jacob Altik joins the legal defense team for the administration in _Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.)_ without revealing he is an DOGE staffer who is working for OPM. named: - Jacob Altik source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-lawyer-opm-email-lawsuit-jacob-altik/ case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: PZtsBGTa - date: 2025-02-06 type: legal event: >- The judge in _Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.)_ dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a Privacy Impact Assessment available for it. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820/gov.uscourts.dcd.276820.1.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: GMWmrZzw - date: 2025-02-06 type: access event: >- Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of the CIO Greg Hogan. It is unclear who ordered the original revocation of access and what changes have happened in the interim. notable: true project: impunity named: - Greg Hogan source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 agency: OPM id: 39TYKG04 - date: 2025-02-12 type: directory event: In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time. source: https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Compl.-DF-v.-OPM-OMB-RIF-plans.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00858 named: - Charles Ezell - Amanda Scales - Anthony Armstrong - Riccardo Biasini - Brian Bjelde - Noah Peters - Greg Hogan - Stephanie Holmes - Christina Hanna - Stephen Duarte - Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski - Joanna Wischer - Justin Monroe - Jacob Altik - Austin Raynor - Edward Coristine - Akash Bobba - Gavin Kliger - Nikhil Rajpal agency: OPM id: 9CEKeLm7 - date: 2025-02-18 type: onboard event: >- Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working at OPM as a volunteer with the job title of Expert. named: - Joe Gebbia agency: OPM source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-02/here-are-the-job-titles-and-salary-ranges-of-some-doge-staffers id: 54lcWZTH - date: 2025-02-18 type: disruption event: >- A CNN reporter shares that his FOIA request to OPM was replied to with the message "they just fired the whole privacy team." notable: true project: impunity source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/cnn-foia-office-of-personnel-management agency: OPM id: M6hmMgLQ - date: 2025-02-24 type: official event: >- After Elon Musk threatens on X that employees must complete a list of 5 accomplishments every week and send it to OPM or risk termination, OPM hastily sends out an email to all federal staff requesting that list (without the threat) to every government employee. Widespread confusion occurs at many agencies about the legality and wisdom of this exercise. notable: true project: personnel source: https://www.justsecurity.org/108229/what-just-happened-musk-email-federal-employees/ agency: OPM id: DCwQyaxn - date: 2025-02-25 type: report event: >- DOGE engineer Ricardo Biasini is reported to be working on updating an "AutoRIF" software package sourced from the Department of Defense that can be used to automate Reduction-in-Force (RIF) processes at federal agencies. notable: true project: personnel named: - Riccardo Biasini source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-autorif-mass-firing-government-workers/ agency: OPM id: C3QCySiU - date: 2025-02-27 type: official event: >- Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records currently stored at a cave in Pennsylvania. notable: true project: modernization named: - Joe Gebbia source: https://xcancel.com/jgebbia/status/1895217230314410144 agency: OPM id: 5Xrxtox9 - date: 2025-02-28 type: official event: >- OPM quietly amends the Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to remove declarations that responses are voluntary. This is after it had to concede that federal staff did not have to reply to the Five Things email because of the PIA. project: personnel source: https://fedscoop.com/opm-email-privacy-assessment-swap-ongoing-litigation/ agency: OPM id: KmPPf5LW - date: 2025-02-28 type: legal event: >- Judge Alsup ruling in _AFL-CIO vs. OPM (N.D. Cal.)_ issues a temporary restraining order that termination of probationary workers at 6 agencies was unlawful and that they should be restored to work immediately. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.45.0.pdf project: personnel case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: SMxkBWdJ - date: 2025-03-01 type: official event: >- All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm. This does not contain a threat of termination, but it is also no longer reported as an optional exercise. Staff working on confidential or classified activities are supposed to reply to the email but redact their work. notable: true project: personnel source: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/g-s1-51490/federal-workers-new-email-accomplishments agency: OPM id: LPZ7jQ9g - date: 2025-03-04 type: official event: >- In response to recent court rulings that determined that OPM exceeded its authority, OPM quietly revises its initial memo that required all federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency. It also downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels. source: >- https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/mass-layoffs-hhs-cdc-cuts-1300-probationary-workers-reports-say project: personnel agency: OPM id: TWrU2GNa - date: 2025-03-05 type: offboard event: >- Three early DOGE staffers – OPM-11, OPM-12 and OPM-15 – leave their positions at OPM and presumably government service. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.163.0.pdf fuzz: >- I'm pretty sure this is Christina Hanna, Stephen Hanna and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, but not sure which is which alias named_aliases: - OPM-11 - OPM-12 - OPM-15 agency: OPM id: 4Wp9Xjic - date: 2025-03-10 type: oversight event: >- The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE's email server and its IT practices at the agency. project: impunity source: https://fedscoop.com/opm-inspector-general-doge-access-it-systems/ agency: OPM id: MZdm5f9r - date: 2025-03-18 type: legal event: >- A lawyer for the plaintiffs accuses the Department of Justice of deliberately misrepresenting Jacob Altik's participation in the defense "perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM's counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case." named: - Jacob Altik source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-lawyer-opm-email-lawsuit-jacob-altik/ case_no: 1:25-cv-00234 agency: OPM id: QmyxpRJR - date: 2025-03-20 type: official event: >- President Trump issues an executive order that orders OPM to redefine regulations so that it would give them more power to directly terminate employees at other agencies. project: personnel source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/strengthening-the-suitability-and-fitness-of-the-federal-workforce/ agency: OPM id: LVXz3mXK - date: 2025-03-24 type: legal case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 event: >- Ruling in _American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al_, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access by DOGE staff to internal systems at OPM by DOGE. However, he still allows access for DOGE-affiliated leadership at the agency including Charles Ezell, Amanda Scales and Greg Hogan. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.69.0.pdf named: - Charles Ezell - Amanda Scales - Greg Hogan agency: OPM id: FoSzFb5k - date: 2025-03-28 type: action source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.97.3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 named: - Amanda Scales - James Sullivan event: >- For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Amanda Scales is replaced as the Chief of Staff at OPM by James Sullivan. Amanda changes to a Senior Advisor position at the agency. notable: true fuzz: Amanda Scales reports on her LinkedIn that she left DOGE in March, so this might have been the cause agency: OPM id: 4JJspL6C - date: 2025-04-03 type: oversight event: >- Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators in a confirmation hearing that he believes strongly in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the federal workforce. named: - Scott Kupor source: https://fedscoop.com/opm-nominee-scott-kupor-data-privacy-doge/ agency: OPM id: JbY96QGM - date: 2025-04-11 type: legal event: >- The plaintiffs in _AFGE, AFL-CIO, et. al vs. OPM_ file a motion asking for the testimony of Noah Peters to be disregarded because they argue it is misleading and possibly fabricated in certain parts. project: impunity case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.197.0.pdf named: - Noah Peters agency: OPM id: jY8TJybS - date: 2025-05-09 type: disruption event: >- OPM is reportedly poised to launch a rebranded version of the formerly-named AutoRIF software for automating the process of designating staff for mass layoffs. It was modernized and given a web interface by DOGE engineer Riccardo Biasini. project: personnel source: >- https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/doge-led-software-revamp-speed-us-job-cuts-even-musk-steps-back-2025-05-08/ comment: He's not named in this article, but tagging Biasini since he was linked to it earlier linked: - Riccardo Biasini agency: OPM id: 3FJ5yaAx - date: 2025-05-09 type: official event: >- OPM reports it will rolling out a Online Retirement Application (ORA) system which replaces the paper-based system for federal departments served by the National Finance Center and Interior Business Center. This was a program originally started in the Biden Administration that is being accelerated without pilot programs. notable: true project: modernization source: https://www.newsweek.com/doge-major-retirement-change-2070002 linked: - Joe Gebbia agency: OPM id: 3jUop1qX - date: 2025-05-30 type: legal event: >- The judge in _AFL-CIO vs. OPM_ examines Greg Hogan on the stand and asks if he had followed [the principle of least privilege](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege) in providing system access to DOGE. The judge's questions indicated that she seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE's "chaotic" access to systems at OPM. agency: OPM project: impunity named: - Greg Hogan source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/05/judge-hits-out-at-chaotic-doge-move-into-opm-systems/ case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 id: tvAusFx6 - date: 2025-06-09 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 event: >- Judge Cote, presiding over AFGE v. OPM, grants a preliminary injunction against DOGE having access to systems at OPM and orders them to destroy any information they have copied. She finds that OPM failed to follow proper procedures for granting access. notable: true agency: OPM project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.121.0.pdf id: 657iS0Kg - date: 2025-06-24 type: directory event: >- In a status report for _AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM_, the government reports that multiple DOGE staff at OPM have left the government by this date. Of course, their actual departure dates might be earlier, but it's a direct acknowledgment of multiple staff departures in the preceding months. named_aliases: - OPM-09 - OPM-11 - OPM-12 - OPM-13 - OPM-14 - OPM-15 - OPM-16 - OPM-17 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.138.0.pdf agency: OPM id: 3mh1G4gc - date: 2025-07-09 type: onboard event: >- Scott Kupor is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Director of OPM, replacing Charles Ezell who had been serving in an acting capacity since January 20th. notable: true named: - Scott Kupor - Charles Ezell source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/07/senate-confirms-new-opm-director-to-take-the-reins-on-federal-workforce-overhauls/ agency: OPM id: VYuB4LF0 - date: 2025-07-16 type: offboard event: >- OPM-03 reaches the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) date for the special government employee status and is removed from access at the agency. named_aliases: - OPM-03 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.148.0.pdf agency: OPM id: 4Mqx8kvM - date: 2025-07-21 type: disruption event: >- Scott Kupor states that he expects to eliminate roughly 1000 positions at OPM (or about a third of its staff) by the end of the year. notable: true project: personnel named: - Scott Kupor source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/opm-lose-about-1000-jobs-director-says/ agency: OPM id: 3BJrr1L0 - date: 2025-08-04 type: directory event: >- In a report about DOGE's continued work on OPM's Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, _Politico_ identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia. project: modernization named: - Joe Gebbia - Akash Bobba - James Sullivan - Yat Choi - Andrew Vilcsak source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/doge-government-retirement-00493140 agency: OPM id: knTvcIUR - date: 2025-08-06 type: disruption event: >- OPM announces the end of the requirement that all federal workers must send in a weekly "Five Things" email describing their work the prior work. OPM director Scott Kupor announced the change in a meeting with all human capital officials across the government. notable: true project: personnel named: - Scott Kupor source: >- https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-formally-axes-elon-musks-five-things-email-2025-08-05/ agency: OPM id: tB5r9X6D - date: 2025-08-08 type: onboard event: >- Special government employee OPM-03 is converted to a permanent position within the agency, still unpaid. named_aliases: - OPM-03 fuzz: Date from report on system access restoration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.148.0.pdf agency: OPM id: hfohz2fQ - date: 2025-09-(02)~ type: offboard event: >- Greg Hogan has reportedly departed from his role as Chief Information Officer at OPM. He had held it from the first day of the Trump Administration when the acting CIO was demoted by Charles Ezell. named: - Greg Hogan source: https://fedscoop.com/greg-hogan-has-departed-his-role-as-opms-top-it-official/ agency: OPM id: 7XEDYGGH - date: 2025-09-03 type: report event: >- In an interview with Axios, Scott Kupor claims that he was not involved with any of DOGE's actions at OPM before he was appointed (indeed, he says he was locked out of the agency until he was appointed). Despite being an employee of Andreesen Horowitz, he states only March Andreesen and Ben Horowitz were in communication with Elon Musk. named: - Scott Kupor source: https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/musk-ai-doge-scott-kupor-opm agency: OPM id: 66Lo1dj8 - date: 2025-09-12 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM_, Judge William Alsup finds that OPM's mass firing of probationary employees was illegal. However, he does not order that fired employees should be reinstated to their positions, since it has been months since the action and the Supreme Court would be likely to overrule. Instead, he has enjoined OPM from conducting similar actions in the future and ordered them to amend the records to note that employees were not terminated due to performance reasons (as the government falsely claimed in many dismissal letters). notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.261.0.pdf project: personnel case_no: 3:25-cv-01780 agency: OPM id: 5VkcKBeb - date: 2025-11-24 type: disruption event: >- Revising earlier dire estimates even higher, OPM head Scott Kupor reports that the US government will eliminate 317,000 jobs in 2025. He also reports that it will hire 68,000 new employees this year. notable: true project: personnel named: - Scott Kupor source: >- https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-government-shed-317000-workers-this-year-trumps-hr-chief-says-2025-11-24/ agency: OPM id: 3gmeqs7D - date: 2025-12-05 type: legal event: >- The government files a motion to dismiss the case in _AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM_ arguing that the PII risk cited in the complaint is now no longer an issue because many DOGE staff have left and the few remaining have had access revoked or moderated. Although the bulk of the provided exhibits are under seal, it does provide a more detailed listing of when various DOGE staff have left OPM and who is still remaining. project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.164.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-01237 agency: OPM id: 3PiC4XB3 - date: 2025-12-05 agency: OPM type: directory event: >- A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02, OPM-03, OPM-05, OPM-10 and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 is reporting directly to Scott Kupor. named_aliases: - OPM-02 - OPM-03 - OPM-05 - OPM-10 - OPM-18 source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.163.0.pdf - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.164.0.pdf id: rez1AgwK - date: 2025-12-10 type: disruption event: >- The head of OPM, Scott Kupor, reports that 317,000 federal workers have left their jobs this year as a result of DOGE's actions and Trump administration policies. He asserts that the vast majority of departures were voluntary. project: personnel source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/federal-workforce-s-toll-after-a-year-of-doge-and-trump-317-000/ar-AA1S6s6z named: - Scott Kupor agency: OPM id: 2xE0jDx6 - date: 2026-01-28 type: onboard event: >- In a post on LinkedIn, Amanda Scales announces she has returned to a role at OPM, overseeing the recruitment and hiring for the new Tech Force initiative to bring in technical staff from Silicon Valley companies into federal service for 2-year terms. notable: true source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7422277036867588096/ project: - personnel - modernization named: - Amanda Scales agency: OPM id: 2p9aK01I - date: 2026-05-05 type: official event: >- Noah Peters writes an op-ed defending a proposed regulation that would move the appeals process for reductions in force (RIFs) from the MSPB to OPM. He is described as a Senior Advisor at the agency. named: - Noah Peters source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange-insights-and-commentary/opm-reduction-in-force-appeals-transfer-is-lawful-and-necessary agency: OPM id: 5Yg6glwJ - name: Peace Corps id: PeaceCorps short_name: Peace page_slug: independent#service slug: peace-corps events: - date: 2025-04-04 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staffer Bridget Youngs visits the Peace Corps, planning to work over the weeked to review records and access IT systems. named: - Bridget Youngs source: - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/elon-musk-doge-peace-corps - https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r_9nu.fNf5II/v0 id: RmvrV2dc agency: PeaceCorps - date: 2025-04-04 type: onboard event: >- In a heavily redacted email, a DOGE member (likely Bridget Youngs) reports that they will likely be the only person on-site, but requests that 4 names total should be granted physical access to the building linked: - Bridget Youngs source: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r_9nu.fNf5II/v0 agency: PeaceCorps id: 1Tjh1Jpr - date: 2025-04-28 type: disruption event: >- The head of a Peace Corps alumni group reports he had been told the agency is expecting large cuts in US staffing, as ordered by DOGE. project: personnel source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/peace-corps-cuts-doge.html id: as2btrZU agency: PeaceCorps - date: 2025-05-09 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff reportedly met with Peace Corps leadership to discuss staffing cuts and expected resignations. notable: true source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute project: personnel id: 5fdC2pM1 agency: PeaceCorps - date: 2026-02-20 type: official event: >- Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit, White House OSTP Director Micheal Kratsios announces that the Peace Corps will launch a new Tech Corps initiative to promote AI worldwide. Volunteers will be deployed to countries participating in the American AI Exports Program, service for 12-27 months overseas. The launch includes [a new site for signups](https://www.peacecorps.gov/ways-to-serve/tech-corps/) that looks like it was developed by the National Design Studio. notable: true named: - Michael Kratsios project: - modernization source: >- https://www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-agency/media-center/news/peace-corps-launches-tech-corps-initiative/ agency: PeaceCorps id: 3GX4gyWM - name: Securities and Exchange Commission id: SEC short_name: SEC slug: sec page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-03-28 type: sighting event: >- SEC employees receive an email that the agency is beginning to onboard DOGE staff to review operations. source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-exchange-commission-beginning-onboard-doge-staff-email-says-2025-03-28/ agency: SEC id: AhjDjwsS - date: 2025-04-15 type: sighting event: >- Reports that SEC leadership has pushed back on DOGE requests to get admin access for staff emails, personnel data, contracts, and payments systems. project: - personnel - spending source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sec-leaders-push-back-musks-doge-seeks-broad-access-source-says-2025-04-15/ named: - Eliezer Mishory agency: - SEC id: LP7ebs7r - date: 2025-07-01 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff at the SEC reportedly have been holding meetings in recent weeks pressuring SEC staff to eliminate regulations around blank-check companies and confidential reporting by private investment funds that were finalized in the Biden administration. notable: true project: deregulation source: >- https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doge-now-targeting-sec-policy-eyes-spac-rules-sources-say-2025-07-01/ linked: - Eliezer Mishory agency: SEC id: 2StGOgfC - date: 2025-08-01 type: official event: >- The SEC announces the creation of an AI task force and the creation of a new Chief AI Officer role helmed by a career SEC staffer. project: modernization source: >- https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-103-sec-creates-task-force-tap-artificial-intelligence-enhanced-innovation-efficiency-across-agency agency: SEC id: 4e1ca8Ie - date: 2025-10-30 type: report event: >- The DOGE team at the SEC has reportedly wrapped up its work at the agency and will be exiting from its involvement at the regulator. Although multiple people have been part of DOGE's efforts, only Eliezer Mishory has been spotted there in recent months named: - Eliezer Mishory source: >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/doge-leave-top-us-markets-regulator-sources-say-2025-10-30/ agency: SEC id: 5L0ZTFXf - name: Small Business Administration id: SBA short_name: SBA slug: sba doge_base: true blurb: |- What is going on at the Small Business Administration? Seriously. I'd like to know. DOGE showed up there remarkably early in their operations (2025-02-03). And since then, it has largely been radio silence. I know some things must have happened there - the CIO was abruptly forced out at the end of March just before DOGE announced a change to loan processing - but there just hasn't been much reported yet. Hopefully that will change in the future. page_slug: sba events: - date: 2025-02-03 type: sighting named: - Edward Coristine - Donald Park event: >- Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems. project: - personnel - spending source: https://xcancel.com/lbarronlopez/status/1886491276729544809 agency: SBA id: Qkjr7Ku3 - date: 2025-02-03 time: '12:02' type: action named: - Edward Coristine - Donald Park event: >- Stephen Kucharski, director of the SBA's Office of Performance Systems Management, emailed 19 colleagues with an urgent request: "Please help me and my OCIO colleagues as we mobilize to provide Edward Coristine and Donald Park Admin access to all SBA systems. This action has been cleared and we are on a very short time frame." They were to be granted access to HR and procurement systems. He then follows up with the agency CIO. notable: true project: - personnel - spending source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ agency: SBA id: 5aKdQvQl - date: 2025-02-03 time: '15:33' type: access named: - Edward Coristine - Donald Park event: >- Within three hours of the request, Edward Coristine and Donald Park are granted “admin authority” to the mainframe and read-only access to the NFC Insight and Reporting Center applications. This gives them the ability to see sensitive information like salary, banking information and even debt for employees at the SBA (and possibly other agencies) notable: true project: - personnel - impunity agency: - SBA source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ id: 6KDZ6MvT - date: 2025-02-03 time: '16:15' type: action named: - Edward Coristine event: >- After being granted access to the National Finance Center for information about staff at SBA, Edward Coristine writes to an associate administrator and chief human capital officer at SBA to ask for the phone number of the CIO for the National Finance Center at USDA. source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ agency: SBA id: 4tgwrM5F - date: 2025-02-16 type: disruption named: - Donald Park event: >- Donald Park sets up the `@DOGE_SBA` account on X as a communications channel for DOGE and a place for the general public to snitch on agency activities. He does not involve agency communications staff that would normally handle social media accounts. project: impunity source: https://www.wired.com/story/how-doge-set-up-a-shadow-x-account-for-a-government-agency/ agency: SBA id: 5pQwKq1e - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- The SBA CIO, Marcus Alzona, who had been in the role for about a month, is abruptly removed from his position. notable: true project: impunity source: https://fedscoop.com/small-business-administration-has-a-new-cio/ agency: SBA id: 3DrSFVcp - date: 2025-03-30 type: disruption event: >- DOGE announces on X.com that it has made some changes to the loan application process at SBA to require a date of birth and to pause applications for certain age ranges. It's unclear how much actual fraud this might have prevented. source: >- https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/how-doge-is-changing-the-process-for-sba-loans-cuts-age-limits/91168379 project: fraud agency: SBA id: P7HBmdym - date: 2025-05-16 agency: SBA type: directory event: >- In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler's behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ named: - Akash Bobba - Joshua Carter - Edward Coristine - Ethan Damiano - Conor Fennessy - Patricia Gibson - Micaela Lopez Ballefin - Aram Moghaddassi - Donald Park - Riley Sennott - Jordan Wick id: 5LEUiBjG - date: 2025-05-22 type: official event: >- Appearing before Congress, the SBA Administrator Kelly Loefler claimed that DOGE had cancelled contracts worth more than $3 billion dollars in savings. DOGE's own "wall of receipts" only listed $22 million in savings for the agency. notable: true project: spending source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-cost-savings-small-business-administration/ agency: SBA id: 7IgxVbzx - date: 2025-08-01 type: oversight event: >- Senator Ed Markey sends a letter to the Kelly Loefler, Administrator of the SBA, demanding more details by August 8th on DOGE's access to SBA systems. source: >- https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d/2/d2e76df4-c3c4-40b6-aec8-ff0b6ef90529/E00B8AAF51A6ADE36C92673DCB7EF160A5334235ECA44F4FEAE04224FAB794B9.doge-data-letter-8.1.25-final.pdf agency: SBA id: 6ELWZVV0 - name: The Smithsonian Institution id: Smithsonian short_name: Smithsonian slug: smithsonian page_slug: independent#other events: - date: 2025-01-29 type: disruption event: >- The Smithsonian Institution announces it is closing a diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. It is not a federal agency, but most of its funding comes from Congressional appropriaions and two-thirds of its staff are federal workers. notable: true project: - dei - personnel source: >- https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279225/smithsonian-diversity-office-president-trump-executive-order agency: Smithsonian id: 2VbieCgy - name: Social Security Administration id: SSA short_name: SSA slug: ssa doge_base: true page_slug: social-security events: - date: 2024-12-(15)~ type: interagency fuzz: Date is just given as "mid-December" event: >- A contractor at the Social Security Administration arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis. named: - Leland Dudek - Steve Davis source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: SSA id: 2AXaug8A - date: 2025-01-30 type: interagency event: >- Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this. interagency_doge_reps: SSA: - Leland Dudek DOGE: - Mike Russo - Scott Coulter source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 agency: SSA id: FP9n4cfD - date: 2025-02-03 type: onboard event: >- Mike Russo officially joins the agency as its new CIO. He then immediately requests that Akash Bobba should be rapidly onboarded into the agency (but there are issues with Bobba's background check). notable: true project: impunity named: - Mike Russo - Akash Bobba source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 agency: SSA id: jUkabBTs - date: 2025-02-03 type: onboard event: >- Unidentified employee SSA-01 starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025. named_aliases: - SSA-01 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.5_3.pdf agency: SSA id: 3cN52Ps5 - date: 2025-02-09 type: official notable: true event: >- Elon Musk posts more tweets claiming to have discovered sources of "massive fraud" within the SSA. These appear to be a misunderstanding of how erroneous records that exist in the SSA database are already filtered out from receiving benefits. Instead, he assumed that all erroneous records had received benefits and thus this was the massive fraud. project: fraud source: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1888484555092312466 named: - Elon Musk agency: SSA id: 4jWM1sc2 - date: 2025-02-10 type: report event: >- Mike Russo summons his new ally Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain data discrepancies identified by Elon Musk. Leland convenes a team of dozens of SSA engineers who review the data from the Treasury department and document fallacies of DOGE's reasoning in a memo. Mike Russo rejects the memo's conclusions by declaring that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanding that Akash Bobba must do his own analysis. notable: true project: fraud named: - Leland Dudek - Mike Russo - Akash Bobba source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: SSA id: 4QdEVdg4 - date: 2025-02-10 type: disruption event: >- Mike Russo and the DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded at Social Security Administration before midnight, bypassing the usual background security checks. project: impunity named: - Mike Russo - Steve Davis - Akash Bobba source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 agency: SSA id: MDr4Wvod - date: 2025-02-10 type: sighting event: >- CIO Mike Russo convenes his own internal informational group in SSA where he has conversations with DOGE staff at other agencies about novel ideas for sharing sensitive SSA data. He does not inform Acting SSA Director, Michelle King. project: - impunity - fraud source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 named: - Leland Dudek - Mike Russo agency: SSA id: hDrQoTQT - date: 2025-02-10 type: official event: >- According to the testimony of a whistleblower, the nominatee for agency director, Frank Bisignano, orders through back channels that agency leadership must onboard Mark Steffensen as an attorney at the SSA. He reportedly had coerced senior SSA leadership to not hire anybody into roles without his explicit approval. notable: true project: impunity named: - Mark Steffensen - Frank Bisignano source: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ssa_whistleblower_statement.pdf agency: SSA id: fFM8X63i - date: 2025-02-14 type: official event: >- Leland Dudek is placed on administrative leave and is placed under investigation that he committed inappropriate actions to assist DOGE's activities at the agency. case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 named: - Leland Dudek source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 agency: SSA id: 2RMnQzW6 - date: 2025-02-15 type: access event: >- SSA IT staff express concern to Acting Commissioner Michelle King that Akash Bobba is accessing highly sensitive data provided by SSA remotely from an insecure location (the DOGE enclave within OPM). This is in violation of the terms of his signed access agreement. notable: true project: impunity source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 named: - Akash Bobba agency: SSA id: 7nTYjRY5 - date: 2025-02-15 type: disruption event: >- Frustrated with the questions and concerns raised by Akash Bobba about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo complains directly to the Chief CIO in the office of the OMB. project: impunity source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 named: - Mike Russo - Akash Bobba case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 agency: SSA id: 2yiF5Rth - date: 2025-02-16 type: disruption event: >- The acting director of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, receives an email from the White House that she has been fired and Leland Dudek is now the Acting Commissioner. notable: true project: impunity source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 named: - Leland Dudek agency: SSA id: bNXkArR5 - date: 2025-02-16 type: official event: >- Elon Musk posts a tweet claiming that DOGE had uncovered fraud of millions of people older than 120 who were collecting social security payments: "Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security." This data issue is real, but there is no indication that millions of people were receiving improper payments notable: true named: - Elon Musk source: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076 project: fraud agency: SSA id: 2yM6UK4i - date: 2025-02-18 type: onboard event: >- Multiple unidentified DOGE staffers start working at SSA on the same day. SSA-02 is detailed from NASA. SSA-07 is detailed from the DOL. SSA-10 arrives from the GSA, and SSA-05 is detailed from DOGE itself. named_aliases: - SSA-07 - SSA-02 - SSA-10 - SSA-05 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.5_3.pdf agency: SSA id: 2j2L2gpw - date: 2025-02-19 type: official event: >- SSA CIO Mike Russo emails Leland Dudek request access to SSA's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for several "members of [his] team." This includes access to the NUMIDENT list of all social security records, Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and Supplemental Security Record (SSR) master records, as well as copies of SSA payment files which SSA transmits to the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) for payment. notable: true project: - fraud - spending named: - Leland Dudek - Mike Russo case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.3.pdf agency: SSA id: GVnA5vun - date: 2025-02-20 type: directory source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/leland-dudek-ssa-doge event: >- Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group). named: - Leland Dudek - Ethan Shaotran - Nikhil Rajpal - Cole Killian - Marko Elez agency: SSA id: 2mX9HegN - date: 2025-02-22 type: onboard event: Unidentfied alias SSA-03 is detailed over from the Department of Labor named_aliases: - SSA-03 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.5_3.pdf agency: SSA id: 41kLYAxx - date: 2025-02-23 type: onboard event: >- Social Security Administration onboards 3 more unidentified DOGE staffers – SSA-06, SSA-04, and SSA-09 – as volunteers with the title of Expert. named_aliases: - SSA-06 - SSA-04 - SSA-09 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.5_3.pdf agency: SSA id: 5cMzKdBH - date: 2025-02-24 type: disruption event: >- The Social Security Administration eliminates an internal team of technologists called the Office of Transformation that was working to modernize SSA processes. Although officially made by Leland Dudek, this direction was given by Scott Coulter. project: impunity named: - Leland Dudek - Scott Coulter source: - https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2025-02-24.html - https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek agency: SSA id: 3ttBbSnR - date: 2025-02-26 type: onboard event: One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08, is detailed to SSA from OPM. named_aliases: - SSA-08 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.5_3.pdf agency: SSA id: 4yjSK6Ou - date: 2025-02-27 type: disruption event: >- Ethan Shaotran contacts Leland Dudek to inform him that DOGE had identified roughly 3 dozen federal contracts in Maine as "nonessential" and that "we should cancel them" as retribution for the Maine governor publicly countering abuse from the President over transgender athletes. Two of those contracts are for Social Security services in the State. notable: true project: - dei - spending named: - Leland Dudek - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: SSA id: 4Xh3hZ2F - date: 2025-02-28 type: official event: >- Via email, SSA-05 at the DOGE team at SSA requests and receives approval from Leland Dudek to run a program to identify unrealistically old people in the SSA database. Scott Coulter is cc'ed on the approval. project: fraud named: - Leland Dudek - Scott Coulter named_aliases: - SSA-05 case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.3.pdf agency: SSA id: 5KzocaBU - date: 2025-03-03 type: disruption event: >- An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February. notable: true project: immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf named: - Steve Davis linked: - Aram Moghaddassi - Marko Elez agency: SSA id: 35aLkwTi - date: 2025-03-04 type: sighting event: >- In a meeting, Dudek stresses again that DOGE will make mistakes and also admits "I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions," suggesting DOGE is in charge at the agency. source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately/ named: - Leland Dudek agency: SSA id: n33reAGA - date: 2025-03-07 type: access event: >- Starting from this data and continuing until March 17, members of the DOGE team at SSA were using servers at Cloudflare to share SSA data (the exact product is not identified, but it could be the D1 system for SQL databases). Needless to say, Cloudflare is not approved by SSA for storing sensitive data, and SSA staff have been unable to determine what data was shared and if it is still hosted on Cloudflare systems. notable: true project: - impunity - fraud - immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf agency: SSA id: 6LbNdKWk - date: 2025-03-07 type: official event: >- After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his decision to cancel the contracts. This is a deliberate misdirection from DOGE's role in the action. notable: true source: https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/#2025-03-07 agency: SSA id: 62L1c5Ar - date: 2025-03-12 type: access event: >- In an inventory of system access on March 12, SSA staff determined the following access had been granted before it was revoked on March 24th. Three DOGE team members had been granted access to a workforce system. Two were granted access to security systems to revoke employee access to systems and facilities. Six DOGE team members were granted access to a workspace to share data among each other. Two DOGE members had access to a data visualization tool which could provide PII. And two DOGE employees were given expanded access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse. notable: true project: personnel source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf agency: SSA id: 6EfaSINE - date: 2025-03-12 type: directory event: >- In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes "the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)" named_aliases: - SSA-01 - SSA-02 - SSA-03 - SSA-04 - SSA-05 - SSA-06 - SSA-07 - SSA-08 - SSA-09 - SSA-10 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.53.1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 agency: SSA id: 7mtGbnRJ - date: 2025-03-12 type: disruption event: >- Multiple SSA employees told ProPublica, their tech systems now seem to be crashing nearly every day, leading to more delays in serving beneficiaries. source: >- https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security agency: SSA project: fraud id: THR2ZpQK - date: 2025-03-13 source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-access-social-security-administration/ type: directory event: >- Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA named: - Akash Bobba - Scott Coulter - Marko Elez - Luke Farritor - Antonio Gracias - Cole Killian - Jon Koval - Nikhil Rajpal - Payton Rehling - Ethan Shaotran agency: SSA id: fPNqSkT8 - date: 2025-03-14 type: access event: >- Leland Dudek grants approval for SSA-05 to run the proposed tool for modifying the death data records to eliminate implausibly old people. DOGE was convinced these data errors were a massive source of fraud, despite evidence to the contrary from SSA staff and concerns that correcting the data would be a waste of time. notable: true project: fraud source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.3.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 named_aliases: - SSA-05 agency: SSA id: SYJpQj5D - date: 2025-03-17 type: access event: >- The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team at Social Security discovers that DOGE's access to the EDW was not authorized through the standard process. source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf project: impunity agency: SSA id: c2iTWFbX - date: 2025-03-19 type: access event: >- Leland Dudek approves access for "Employee 9" of the DOGE team at SSA to view some additional schemas in the PSSNAP database of Social Security Applications conducted over the phone. named_aliases: - SSA-09 comment: Name redacted in court filing project: fraud case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.121.3.pdf agency: SSA id: Pej3DDWx - date: 2025-03-20 type: legal event: >- In a ruling for _AFL-CIO vs. SSA_, Judge Hollander grants a temporary restraining order enjoining DOGE from having any access to SSA systems or installing any software as well as ordering them to delete any data in their possession. project: - impunity - fraud source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.48.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 agency: SSA id: 6M6gitcg - date: 2025-03-20 type: disruption event: >- Leland Dudek threatens to shut down the entire Social Security Administration instead of complying with the court order to block access for DOGE. He reportedly reaches this conclusion based on the advice of two unnamed senior DOGE leaders. notable: true project: - impunity - fraud named: - Leland Dudek source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: SSA id: 4F9jgz4j - date: 2025-03-21 type: access event: >- Less than 24 hours after DOGE's access was revoked by the temporary restraining order, senior members of the EDW team receive emails ordering them to restore access for two members of the DOGE team. Furthermore, they were ordered to grant them additional expanded privileges. project: impunity source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 78mrZQrX - date: 2025-03-24 type: disruption event: >- After members of an unidentified political advocacy group contacted two members of the DOGE team at SSA, one of the DOGE members signed a Voter Data Agreement to share data. The group was looking for data to accuse states of fraud to overturn election results. The DOGE team member did not consult SSA lawyers or follow any mandatory clearance procedures for sharing data with outside entities. It is unclear if they sent data, but the two employees were referred for investigation of violating the Hatch Act in December 2025, which forbids government officials from partisan political activities. notable: true project: - impunity - immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf agency: SSA id: 1ddyOe0s - date: 2025-03-24 type: access event: >- An unidentified member of the DOGE team at Social Security Administration was running queries against the NUMIDENT data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse the morning on the same day that access was scheduled to be revoked. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf agency: SSA id: pObGc4eJ - date: 2025-03-24 type: access event: >- The Social Security Administration's Office of Information Security (OIS) revokes access for DOGE members again, restoring enforcement of the temporary restraining order. source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 77hlovkP - date: 2025-03-24 type: disruption event: >- Mike Russo is abruptly removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration. This is rumored to be retribution for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access. named: - Mike Russo source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/15/doge-social-security-data-judge/ agency: SSA id: JwRuCtBS - date: 2025-03-25 type: disruption event: >- An unidentified DOGE staffer at SSA sends an email to an outside voter advocacy group sharing some SSA data related to elections. The email continues: "We have spent many hours on many aspects of REDACTED elections" and asking the recipient to reach out if they have any theories about past elections that they would like to discuss further, concluding with the statement "We live for this!" source: >- https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-new-records-show-paper-trail-of-doge-voter-data-pact-with-election-deniers/ project: immigration agency: SSA id: 6HVWPcEZ - date: 2025-03-26 type: disruption event: >- During his confirmation hearing, Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the agency, confirms that he had coordinated with Michael Russo but denied a whistleblower report that he had ordered the appointment of other DOGE staff there. project: impunity named: - Leland Dudek - Mike Russo - Frank Bisignano source: https://thehill.com/homenews/5212751-sen-wyden-questions-bisignano/ agency: SSA id: akUHUm4h - date: 2025-03-27 type: disruption event: >- The Social Security Administration ends a Biden-era rule that limited clawbacks for overpayments to 10% per check (to prior policy of taking entire checks). project: fraud source: >- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-benefits-clawback-overpayment-100-percent-march-27-doge/ agency: SSA id: iS2sD8AU - date: 2025-03-27 type: access event: >- In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for SSA-01, SSA-05, SSA-08 and SSA-09 on the DOGE team. This access is granted through the SSA's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required. project: fraud named_aliases: - SSA-01 - SSA-05 - SSA-08 - SSA-09 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.62.1.pdf named: - Leland Dudek agency: SSA id: aympP8hu - date: 2025-03-27 type: disruption event: >- In an interview on FOX News, Aram Moghaddassi mangles a statistic that 40% of fraud involved a call to a service center to change direct deposit information. He instead announces that 40% of all calls to the SSA are fraudlent. The claim is amplified across conservative media and the White House refuses to correct. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html named: - Aram Moghaddassi project: fraud agency: SSA id: 3IbH1H53 - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- Reports emerge that DOGE is planning to rewrite the entire COBOL codebase for Social Security to Java in months using generative AI. notable: true project: - modernization named: - Steve Davis source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/ agency: SSA id: jMMy9Nk9 - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- The Deputy CIO for Infrastructure/IT at SSA acknowledges an increased number of network crashes due to a newly-introduced fraud checking system created and rushed into production by DOGE. project: - fraud - modernization source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/07/social-security-website-crashes-musk-trump/ agency: SSA id: dUcMFmWb - date: 2025-03-28 type: official event: >- As part of an interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi spreads an incorrect statistic that states 40% of all phones calls to SSA are from people committing fraud. project: fraud named: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/08/vance-social-security-fraud-false/ agency: SSA id: A7EUkX2p - date: 2025-03-30 type: disruption event: >- During campaign rallies in Wisconsin, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias publish a chart claiming to show an increase in social security numbers being granted to noncitizens as evidence of voting fraud or benefits fraud by immigrants. The problem is that these numbers are necessary for immigrants to work in roles, and are used for paying taxes rather than receiving benefits, and the statistics were from a program to replace a more cumbersome process for assigning SSN IDs. Based on this interpretation, the Trump Administration argued for a change where applicants would have to instead visit an already overstretched field office, a change that is likely to both reduce tax income from immigrant workers and increase the per-person cost from $8 to $51,000. notable: true project: fraud named: - Antonio Gracias - Elon Musk source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/elon-musk-social-security-immigrants/ agency: SSA id: BETG9iZr - date: 2025-04-02 type: disruption event: >- In an interview on Fox, Antonio Gracias makes misleading claims that DOGE had discovered widespread voting fraud through joining social security data and state voter rolls. notable: true project: - fraud - immigration named: - Antonio Gracias agency: SSA source: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5352470/doge-musk-social-security-voting id: iUYtxUSw - date: 2025-04-03 type: disruption event: >- Social Security employees received an offer from the human resources department for voluntary reassignments to "mission-critical" front-line roles in call services and hearing offices to replace staff that were eliminated. project: personnel source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/social-security-layoffs-trump-musk/ agency: SSA id: WQ7BVkDi - date: 2025-04-04 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staffers at SSA declare the need for widespread Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) at the agency, despite a previous reduction in staffing of 7000 people and notable degradations in service. Among other cuts, they suggest removing 800 people from the IT department of 4000. notable: true source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/social-security-layoffs-trump-musk/ project: - elimination - personnel agency: SSA id: KqoNYw6T - date: 2025-04-07 type: disruption event: >- The Post confirms with multiple source that Social Security's website has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages ranging from 20 minutes to an entire day. They speculate this is due to the introduction of an expanded fraud check system created by DOGE that wasn't tested for scalability before being deployed. project: - fraud - modernization source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/07/social-security-website-crashes-musk-trump/ agency: SSA id: jkdURxvu - date: 2025-04-08 type: access event: >- Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the "death master file" as a way of forcing them to "self-deport" by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors. notable: true named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Scott Coulter project: immigration source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html agency: SSA id: H45eMwSg - date: 2025-04-10 type: disruption event: >- Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel. notable: true project: - immigration - impunity named: - Scott Coulter linked: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/ agency: SSA id: g6zvQNcw - date: 2025-04-10 type: access event: >- 102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to "self-deport" as a result. project: immigration named: - Scott Coulter linked: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/ agency: SSA id: 73c95ZcV - date: 2025-04-11 type: disruption event: The Social Security Agency is reportedly shifting all its official communications exclusively to X. source: https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/ agency: SSA id: 2w5BGWW3 - date: 2025-04-14 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 event: >- The Trump Administration files a formal motion to protect the identities of DOGE staff at the agency in filings. This explains the redactions of DOGE names in filings. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.134.0.pdf agency: SSA id: MCmDjbX8 - date: 2025-04-17 type: access event: >- Social Security introduces a new AI chatbot to help with general agency tasks but built from general OpenAI models and not trained on SSA data or content. project: modernization source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/ssa-rolling-out-new-chatbot-employees/404658/ agency: SSA id: SH9bwWog - date: 2025-04-18 type: disruption event: >- Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren't dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to "self-deport." The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead. project: immigration linked: - Aram Moghaddassi - Scott Coulter source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/18/immigrants-dead-social-security-alive/ agency: SSA id: Tb3wbZWT - date: 2025-04-23 type: access event: >- DOGE has reportedly added 10 million records into the Death Master File since March, both as part of addressing errors in the NUMIDENT files as well as deliberate effort to harm immigrants from being able to interact with the financial industry. As a reuslt, some very alive Americans have been declared dead by DOGE. notable: true project: - fraud - immigration source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/dead-social-security-doge-musk/ agency: SSA id: enUTyZZ7 - date: 2025-04-(30)~ type: disruption event: >- Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for handling phone calls to 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast regions. It frustrates many users attempting to reach an actual person for assistance. project: modernization source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/doge-social-security-musk-trump-cuts/ agency: SSA id: PBTtNmMD - date: 2025-05-06 type: official event: >- Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, replacing Leland Dudek who was serving as the acting commissioner. named: - Frank Bisignano linked: - Leland Dudek source: >- https://apnews.com/article/social-security-administration-bisignano-trump-doge-7ec043009064a58be57ce1465dec0481 agency: SSA id: 76GQmOLo - date: 2025-05-14 type: disruption event: >- Due to DOGE imposing a government-wide restriction on expense cards, many of the Social Security offices are in disarray, unable to do common office tasks like buying paper for printers or shredding documents. There are a few shared purchase cards for the agency, but fewer than a dozen staff in SSA are able to authorize office expenses for all 1300 field offices. notable: true project: spending source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/doge-social-security-musk-trump-cuts/ agency: SSA id: 8cf4dBxA - date: 2025-05-16 type: disruption event: >- An internal report at Social Security analyzes new fraud detection mechanisms that were mandated by DOGE for all phone claims. According to analysis, only 2 out of 110,000 claims made were possibly but not certainly fraudultent, and adding the system has slowed claims processing by 25% and degraded service overall. notable: true project: fraud source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/ agency: SSA id: 528Ro1KK - date: 2025-06-(05)~ type: report event: >- Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, "Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration." The date and person isn't named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it's Scott Coulter who was removed in early June. notable: true project: impunity named: - Frank Bisignano linked: - Scott Coulter source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-elon-musk-left-control-92770407 agency: SSA id: 3jzcZqoH - date: 2025-06-06 type: disruption event: >- The SSA website takes down for maintenance a page that provided service metrics. When it is restored after several weeks, certain metrics that would have shown the impact of DOGE like average phone wait times are no longer provided. project: impunity source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/20/social-security-wait-times-cuts/ agency: SSA id: 32ULtG04 - date: 2025-06-06 type: sighting event: >- A report in the _New York Times_ suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency. project: impunity source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-interior-epa.html named: - Mike Russo - Aram Moghaddassi agency: SSA id: 10KZKaAF - date: 2025-06-09 type: report event: >- In a recent interview with the _Wall Street Journal_, the new head of SSA, Frank Bisignano, states that "DOGE personnel, including eight engineers, are integral to getting the job done" source: >- https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/social-security-chief-says-musks-doge-figures-heavily-in-agencys-plans-45cc0f35 agency: SSA id: 7hXwZjX4 - date: 2025-06-10 type: access event: >- John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration's CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data. notable: true project: - impunity - immigration named: - John Solly linked: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: mSeONpfj - date: 2025-06-11 type: action event: >- John Solly modifies his request to instead ask to transfer NUMIDENT data to a test environment. This is not entirely unheard of, but it's considered a very insecure practice to move production data into a testing environment that might not be authorized for that. DOGE then amends their request again to ask for full admin access to SSA's cloud environment. notable: true project: impunity named: - John Solly source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 2xFYeu9H - date: 2025-06-12 type: disruption event: >- A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE's request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure. notable: true project: - fraud - impunity named: - Aram Moghaddassi linked: - John Solly source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 4YbBDKKK - date: 2025-06-16 type: report event: >- The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for SSA sends an email to Aram Moghaddassi with his assessment that moving NUMIDENT data to the cloud would be at an unacceptably high risk for being hacked or stolen (computed on a 1-5 scale with a 3 for probability of risk and 5 for the impact of this risk) project: - fraud - impunity named: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOGE_REPORT_FINAL_7.pdf agency: SSA id: g74bzA3z - date: 2025-06-23 type: sighting event: >- Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA. notable: true named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Edward Coristine agency: SSA source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-social-security-administration/ id: 5eFonNQd - date: 2025-06-23 type: access event: >- Career staff in the Office of the CIO at Social Security approved DOGE's request to setup their own separate cloud environment apart from the usual oversight and processes of cloud services at SSA. They deny a request by DOGE to transfer highly-sensitive NUMIDENT data to the cloud. source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: nRkE1RFB - date: 2025-06-25 type: access event: >- Reportedly acting as a joint CIO at Social Security, Mike Russo overrides the concerns of junior staff in the Office of the CIO at the Social Security Administration and approves a request by John Solly to transfer NUMIDENT data into the new DOGE-controlled cloud environment. notable: true project: - fraud - impunity named: - John Solly - Mike Russo source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 6sBdoQg6 - date: 2025-06-28 agency: SSA type: disruption event: >- According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May. notable: true project: impunity source: https://fedscoop.com/social-security-administration-doge-chief-information-officer/ named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Mike Russo - Scott Coulter id: 6yPCBgrt - date: 2025-06-30 agency: SSA type: disruption event: >- Due to staffing cuts, there is now an average of 1 SSA worker per 1480 benficiaries, or almost triple the ratio in 1967. This is a direct result of DOGE-driven cuts reducing agency staffing by 7000 since January project: personnel source: >- https://www.afge.org/article/due-to-doge-cuts-1-ssa-employee-is-expected-to-serve-1480-beneficiaries/ id: 3y58APCa - date: 2025-07-01 type: offboard event: >- In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It's unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are. named: - Antonio Gracias linked: - Jon Koval - Payton Rehling source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/high-ranking-doge-official-elon-musk-ally-antonio-gracias-left-governm-rcna220611 agency: SSA id: 544M8JM9 - date: 2025-07-02 type: disruption event: >- An analysis by a news organization finds that wait times on calls to Social Security routinely exceed 3 hours, with the system also frequently hanging up on people after 2 hours and promising a callback that never arrives. The Social Security website misleadingly reports the average wait time as 18 minutes. project: personnel source: >- https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/social-security-call-wait-times-can-exceed-3-hours-after-doge-cuts/ agency: SSA id: 6gNKgovS - date: 2025-07-14 type: disruption agency: SSA event: >- The Social Security Administration begins to warn approximately half a million Americans who still receive their benefits by paper check that they will need to call the Treasury Department themselves and request a waiver to still receive paper checks. Those who have not had their waivers processed by the end of September may experience a delay in receiving benefits even if their waiver application is pending. This action is being taken to comply with EO 14247. project: fraud source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/social-security-signals-potential-benefit-disruptions-fall-those-still-getting-paper-checks/406710/ id: 2ckAriW2 - date: 2025-07-15 type: disruption event: >- Acting in his role as the CIO for Social Security Administration, Aram Moghaddassi authorizes a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) for the project of moving the NUMIDENT data from Social Security's controlled environment into the special cloud soley operated by DOGE. As the CIO, he is allowed to assume the risk of bypassing mandatory security requirements, but not if it violates federal law or puts sensitive data at risk of being stolen. According to the testimony of several whistleblowers, the cloud project is reportedly being run by Edward Coristine. notable: true project: - fraud - impunity source: - https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf - https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOGE_REPORT_FINAL_7.pdf agency: SSA id: 52hHHO4P - date: 2025-08-11 type: action event: >- Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE's cloud could lead to the leak of every American's social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE's cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries. project: - fraud - impunity named: - Edward Coristine - John Solly linked: - Aram Moghaddassi - Mark Steffensen source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 4wAh9b8o - date: 2025-08-18 type: oversight project: impunity event: >- In a letter to the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, the Acting Inspector General for the Social Security Administration reports she has no intention of investigating how DOGE added individuals to the Death Master File. She states that DOGE was directed to do this change by Leland Dudek. also reports that the changes were reverted in June 2025 under the order of Frank Bisignano. source: >- https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ssa_oig_letter_to_us_senate_committee_on_finance_ranking_member_wyden_on_death_master_file_-_18_august_25pdf.pdf named: - Leland Dudek - Frank Bisignano linked: - Aram Moghaddassi agency: SSA id: 1EVh7z4W - date: 2025-08-26 type: oversight event: >- The Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration, Charles Borges, submits a public whistleblower complaint alleging that DOGE cut corners and skirted mandatory IT oversight in order to copy sensitive NUMIDENT data of the social security numbers of all Americans into a private cloud environment that only they controlled. notable: true project: - fraud - impunity source: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf agency: SSA id: 77QILRRh - date: 2025-08-29 type: disruption event: >- Reporting that retaliation and abuse have made it impossible for him to do his job, whistleblower Charles Borges resigns from his position at the Social Security Administration. Retaliation against whistleblowers is a prohibited personnel practice for federal staff, but it can be difficult to prove and enforce. project: impunity source: >- https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/social-security-whistleblower-claims-doge-mishandled-americans-sensitive-125113165 agency: SSA id: 1Lu0kHJ5 - date: 2025-09-03 type: official event: >- Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions) notable: true project: impunity named: - Frank Bisignano - Aram Moghaddassi - Mike Russo source: https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2025-09-03.html agency: SSA id: 475zG3y4 - date: 2025-09-10 type: oversight event: >- The Republican Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee sends a letter to the Social Security Administration asking about the whistleblower's claims that NUMIDENT data was carelessly uploaded to the cloud by DOGE staffer. Coming from the Republican Mike Crapo, this possibly indicates a rare bipartisan concern about DOGE's activities at the agency. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/doge-social-security-republicans.html agency: SSA id: 7hsajiKA - date: 2025-09-16 type: oversight event: >- SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano replies to the letter from the Senate Finance Committee about the allegations of the whistleblower. He claims that all proper procedures were followed and that DOGE did not transfer data to a private cloud within the SSA Amazon Web Services accounts. project: impunity named: - Frank Bisignano source: >- https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_from_commissioner_bisignano_to_chairman_crapo_091625.pdf agency: SSA id: 12UEgdwW - date: 2025-09-24 type: report event: >- The _New York Times_ reports on how the DOGE-led staffing cuts and technology changes have led to poor service, low morale and increased wait times for the public. In many field offices, the average wait for an appointment is now six weeks. project: - personnel - modernization linked: - Frank Bisignano source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/business/social-security-customer-service.html agency: SSA id: ZqOdn19C - date: 2026-01-09 type: oversight event: >- A whistleblower files a complaint alleging that a member of DOGE who left SSA in October to work for a private contractor had illegally retained their agency laptop and highly-sensitive data. The complaint alleges the unnnamed person had unredacted copies of the NUMIDENT database and the Master Death Files and that they boasted of "God-level" access to SSA data. The DOGE member reportedly wanted assistance to move data from a thumb drive to their personal equipment so they could scrub the data of personal identifiers and use for a company project. When informed by agency personnel that this would be highly illegal, the person allegedly said they would be able to receive a full presidential pardon if they did anything wrong. Although unnamed in the original reporting, he is revealed to be John Solly. notable: true source: - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge-2/ - https://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/ project: impunity named: - John Solly agency: SSA id: 23E73xAV - date: 2026-01-16 type: legal event: >- In a filing in _AFL-CIO v. SSA_, the government amended several declarations that had been made in Leland Dudek's testimony on March 24, 2025. For starters, although DOGE access was revoked on that day, a member of DOGE was running queries against PII in the NUMIDENT database up to the moment. Also, the DOGE team at SSA sent encrypted sensitive SSA data to DOGE and the Department of Labor. A member of the DOGE team also signed an agreement to share information with an outside advocacy group without clearing it through proper legal channels. notable: true project: - impunity - fraud source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00596 agency: SSA id: DinVXt5J - date: 2026-04-14 type: legal event: >- In response to "alarming" developments about DOGE's handling of sensitive data and collaboration with an outsider advocacy group to share voter data, a judge lifted a pause on a case and granted the plaintiffs' request for discovery. This could force SSA and DOGE to hand over documents, emails and even provide testimony under oath about their activities. source: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-orders-probe-of-doges-secret-voter-data-deal/ project: - immigration - impunity agency: SSA id: 7kYrhp6v - name: State Department id: State short_name: State slug: state doge_base: true page_slug: state events: - date: 2025-02-10 event: >- Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department's directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. type: sighting named: - Edward Coristine - Luke Farritor source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ agency: State id: Ru3gqWWt - date: 2025-04-22 type: disruption event: >- Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces plans for a major reorganization of the State Department that would eliminate 132 offices and terminate roughly 700 positions in DC. It also would reduce monitoring of war crimes and global conflicts. notable: true project: - elimination - personnel named: - Marco Rubio source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/politics/rubio-state-department-cuts/index.html agency: State id: 4FH4cHZH - date: 2025-06-24 type: disruption event: >- Jeremy Lewin signs off on an award to a Trump-backed aid group in Gaza, despite objections that the group failed to meet "minimum technical or budgetary standards" and waived mandatory counter-terrorism and fraud safeguards. The funding request was made by Kenneth Jackson, who ignored 58 objections raised by former USAID staff. project: impunity source: >- https://www.regionalmedianews.com/world/former-doge-official-rushed-grant-to-trump-backed-gaza-aid-group-over-staff-objections agency: State id: 2ctfSciG - date: 2025-07-11 type: disruption event: >- The State Department lays off more than 1300 people – many specializing in violent extremism, refugee resettlement and women's rights – as part of a sweeping reorganization announced by Marco Rubio on April 22. The terminated staff will be placed on a 120-day administrative leave period before formally losing their jobs. notable: true project: - dei - elimination linked: - Marco Rubio source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/state-department-firings agency: State id: 7iWClMDh - date: 2025-07-11 type: report event: >- Jeremy Lewin is promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom in the State Department. This is the third highest rank in the agency and he is possibly the youngest person to ever hold it. named: - Jeremy Lewin source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/19/state-department-layoffs-jeremy-lewin/ agency: State id: 4W8MKpIH - date: 2025-08-12 type: onboard event: >- Threes after departing from DOGE and government service, Brad Smith is hired in a leadership position at the Department of State focused on global health initiatives. source: >- https://www.semafor.com/article/08/12/2025/former-senior-doge-official-returns-to-the-trump-administration agency: State id: 3dvjYKD4 - date: 2025-11-17 type: official event: >- Acting in his new capacity as a global health advisor in the State Department, Brad Smith is reportedly pressuring African nations to sign memorandums of understanding which would grant the US access to their health data for the next 25 years in return for limited health aid from the US for the next five years. This is blasted by critics as extractive and an attempt by the US to bypass the World Health Organization's normal role in monitoring for emerging pathogens. agency: State named: - Brad Smith source: >- https://healthpolicy-watch.news/us-steams-ahead-with-extractive-health-aid-agreements-with-african-countries/ id: 4e2YxpaU - date: 2026-03-10 type: disruption event: >- Union officials and former staffers directly blamed the DOGE-driven Reduction in Force (RIF) and agency-wide reorganization last year for the State Department's chaotic response in evacuating Americans trapped in the Middle East due to the war with Iran. The State Department denied the layoffs have had any effect on agency readiness. notable: true source: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/doge-government-spending-cuts-iran-war project: personnel agency: State id: 4ihe52jz - name: Transportation Security Administration id: TSA short_name: TSA slug: tsa parent_id: DHS page_slug: homeland-security events: [] - name: U.S. African Development Foundation id: USADF short_name: USADF slug: usadf page_slug: independent#eo1 events: - date: 2025-02-19 type: report event: >- USADF board member Ward Brehm becomes aware that his agency is going to be targeted by DOGE for elimination. project: elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.2.pdf agency: USADF id: mPJA8JnY - date: 2025-02-20 type: sighting event: >- Chris Young meets with USADF leadership at their HQ to "introduce DOGE to the agency" and informs them that 2 engineers would be assigned to the agency. named: - Chris Young case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: Q7jFqwLD - date: 2025-02-21 type: sighting event: >- Ethan Shaotran, Jacob Altik, and Nate Cavanaugh arrive at the agency and demand that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be signed for their detail assignment. named: - Ethan Shaotran - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: 7v7sVWG5 - date: 2025-02-21 type: disruption event: >- Once the MOU is signed, DOGE staff reveal their real purpose is to conduct a massive reduction in agency staff and scope and demand they must file a RIF plan by February 24th. project: elimination named: - Ethan Shaotran - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: dtakM5hM - date: 2025-02-21 type: access event: >- Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik then demanded immediate access to USADF systems including financial records and payment and human resources systems. They were told they had to go through standard clearance process. project: - spending - elimination named: - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: QFXkX5nW - date: 2025-02-21 type: disruption event: >- Jacob Altik demands waivers to exempt DOGE staff from background checks. He also threatens to fire the USADF board if DOGE's demands are not met. notable: true project: - impunity - elimination named: - Jacob Altik case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: 7aypySNW - date: 2025-02-21 type: official event: >- The USADF general cousel revokes their participation in the Memorandum of Understanding signed between USADF and DOGE. He declares the MOU was created under false pretenses that DOGE would be assisting the agency in "IT modernization." notable: true project: - elimination - modernization case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: kSet7QgF - date: 2025-02-24 type: disruption event: >- USADF President/CEO Ward Brehm receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Personnel Trent Morse notifying him that he is now removed from tbe board. notable: true project: elimination named: - Trent Morse case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF id: NrAucFtb - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- USADF Managing Director of Finance Mathieu Zahui receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Personnel Trent Morse informing him the USADF is now "boardless" and naming Peter Marocco as acting chair. Zahui informs them that the appointment would require senate confirmation first. project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: USADF named: - Trent Morse id: M6gCSNxa - date: 2025-03-03 type: report event: >- Defying the White House, USADF board member Ward Brehm is elected by the existing board of the USADF as President/CEO of USADF. case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.2.pdf agency: USADF id: 3W8Pu6iy - date: 2025-03-04 type: disruption event: >- USADF CFO Mathieu Zahui receives an email from Nate Cavanaugh informing him that Peter Marocco would be coming to the office the following day in his declared capacity as Chairman of the Board. named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Peter Marocco case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.2.pdf agency: USADF id: HBHAt2jo - date: 2025-03-05 type: disruption event: >- Nate Cavanaugh sends Ward Brehm an email demanding to know by what authority he is the President/CFO of USADF. named: - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.2.pdf agency: USADF id: 5XqG48jY - date: 2025-03-05 type: disruption event: >- Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran are rebuffed by agency leadership when attempting to enter the agency headquarters. named: - Jacob Altik - Ethan Shaotran case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-in-tense-standoff-video-unmasked/ agency: USADF id: 7QXxV37g - date: 2025-03-06 type: disruption event: >- DOGE staff Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran return to the agency joined by Nate Cavanaugh and US marshals to force their way into the agency. notable: true named: - Jacob Altik - Ethan Shaotran - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-in-tense-standoff-video-unmasked/ agency: USADF id: moEAf65R - date: 2025-03-10 type: onboard event: The Trump administration nominates Laken Rapier and Russell Vought to be on the board of the USADF. named: - Russell Vought source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/executive_calendar/xcalv.pdf agency: USADF id: fnPuKCNX - date: 2025-06-10 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _Brehm v. Marocco_, Judge Leon denies the plaintiff's request for a temporary restraining order, finding that Trump was likely within the bounds of the law when he removed board members of the USADF. project: impunity case_no: 1:25-cv-00660 source: https://clearinghouse.net/case/46200/ agency: USADF id: 7SKDJ6RT - date: 2025-07-01 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-01631 notable: true event: >- A federal judge grants a preliminary injunction ruling that Trump violated federal laws when he appointed Peter Marocco as the head of the USADF, meaning that all of his subsequent actions to dismantle the agency should be considered null and void. source: https://clearinghouse.net/case/46623/ agency: USADF id: 46C7TmBl - name: U.S. Access Board id: USAccess short_name: Access Brd slug: usaccess page_slug: independent#other events: - date: 2025-04-22 type: sighting event: >- THe U.S. Access Board reports that the agency had a cordial meeting with DOGE and that additional meetings are expected in the future source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: USAccess id: 2oGmeHjW - name: US Agency for International Development id: USAID short_name: USAID slug: usaid page_slug: usaid events: - date: 2025-01-20 type: official event: >- President Trump signs executive order EO 14169 that places a 90-day halt on foreign aid, but it's unclear to USAID staff if that applies to just new disbursements or existing grants. project: - spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 1cYzVrAV - date: 2025-01-24 type: report event: >- Senior USAID staff meet with Trump administration officials to explain that USAID is not defying a freeze on all foreign aid, but that payments in progress can take a while to be processed. They hope this explanation will satisfy Peter Marocco. notable: true project: spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 1LD8L7Na - date: 2025-01-27 type: onboard event: >- Still convinced that USAID is deliberately committing insubordination against the executive order, Peter Marocco arrives at USAID with DOGE staffers Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine and Clayton Cromer to audit USAID's accounts. notable: true project: spending named: - Peter Marocco - Luke Farritor - Edward Coristine - Clayton Cromer source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 4PFoynfJ - date: 2025-01-27 type: disruption event: >- After the arrival of DOGE in the agency, senior staff are summoned to a meeting with Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor. The DOGE team then presented agency leadership with a list of 57 employees involved with payments to be placed on immediate administrative leave and locked out of system access. The list reportedly made little sense and involved many staff not involved with payments. notable: true project: - spending - personnel named: - Gavin Kliger - Luke Farritor source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/ agency: USAID id: WR9Xb7Ar - date: 2025-01-28 type: official event: >- The White House press secretary reports the astounding statistic that USAID spent $50 million on condoms for the Gaza Strip. This figure was actually for a variety of family planning services (largely birth control medication) and, more importantly, it was for the Gaza province in Mozambique. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID project: fraud id: 6y0l38w8 - date: 2025-01-30 type: report event: >- DOGE presents their evidence that the employees should be placed on leave based on a single email analysis made by Luke Farritor and sent to other DOGE members. "I could be wrong. My numbers could be off." he writes, but the conclusions are not questioned or checked. project: - personnel named: - Luke Farritor source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 7Bwt01Ed - date: 2025-01-30 type: disruption event: >- After USAID's director of labor relations pushed back against the push to suspend and fire the employees, he threatens to report it to the Office of Special Counsel and emails the employees saying he has no grounds to keep them on leave. As a result, Clayton Cromer commands security staff to forcibly remove him from the building. project: impunity named: - Clayton Cromer source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 1cz7UamT - date: 2025-01-30 type: disruption event: >- Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to comply with orders to lock every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and other communication systems. He refuses, stating that a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed. notable: true project: - elimination - impunity named: - Jeremy Lewin - Elon Musk - Peter Marocco source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: wT1UbmGQ - date: 2025-01-30 type: disruption event: >- Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger demand that all senior managers at USAID be stripped of their power to authorize payments - and that they alone become the only authorizers. notable: true project: spending named: - Luke Farritor - Gavin Kliger source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/ agency: USAID id: 2Soci5N2 - date: 2025-02-01 type: disruption event: >- The acting head of the USAID, Jason Gray, is removed and replaced by Marco Rubio. Rubio then resigns and names Peter Marocco the Acting Deputy Administrator for the agency, giving him absolute power to force his demands. notable: true project: impunity named: - Marco Rubio - Peter Marocco source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 5uaSIHkZ - date: 2025-02-01 type: disruption event: >- THe USAID Director of Security and their deputy are placed on administrative leave for reportedly trying to prevent DOGE from accessing personnel files and classified data. notable: true project: - personnel - impunity source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/usaid-security-leaders-removed-refusing-elon-musks-doge-employees-acce-rcna190357 agency: USAID id: JM9cFsgE - date: 2025-02-01 type: disruption event: The main USAID website and 6 other related websites are taken offline by DOGE. source: https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-websites-are-disappearing-in-real-time/ project: elimination agency: USAID id: K5Ry8Q4a - date: 2025-02-01 type: report event: >- DOGE staff arrive at USAID HQ hoping to work within the administrator's suite at USAID, but their badges were not properly coded to provide access. The DOGE staff reportedly concluded this meant agency staff were keeping them out and could not be trusted. project: impunity source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: USAID id: 48h1YV1D - date: 2025-02-01 type: disruption event: Approximately 2000 USAID email accounts are deactivated without warning. source: >- https://fedscoop.com/usaid-website-goes-dark-staff-emails-deactivated-amid-doge-takeover-source-says/ project: elimination agency: USAID id: 4uRgma5h - date: 2025-02-02 type: disruption event: Elon Musk posts a series of tweets calling USAID evil and saying it is "time for it to die." notable: true source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646 project: elimination agency: USAID id: bejcmPHZ - date: 2025-02-03 type: disruption event: >- Elon Musk tweets that he and President Trump are shutting down USAID, bragging he had fed the agency "into the wood chipper" notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388 agency: USAID id: G92wpTpH - date: 2025-02-04 type: disruption event: >- All USAID staff are informed by email they will soon be placed on indefinite administrative leave. The message is sent from the USAID email address of Gavin Kliger. project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.111.1.pdf case_no: 8:25-cv-00462 agency: USAID id: HduG4YuE - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption event: DOGE posts a tweet boasting about the removal of signage on the headquarters for USAID. project: elimination source: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1887959408555995416#m agency: USAID id: h2LuoY4U - date: 2025-02-07 type: disruption event: >- All USAID staff are placed on indefinite administrative leave, as a way of locking them out of systems and keeping them out of the way of DOGE's activities at the agency. project: - elimination - impunity source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/usaid-reduce-foreign-service-officers-trump-cuts-federal-government-rcna191122 agency: USAID id: dJnZqbb4 - date: 2025-02-09 type: disruption event: >- Using their admin access, Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor completely disable accounts for all other USAID staff on the agency's system for creating and tracking payments. They now have absolute control. notable: true project: - elimination - impunity named: - Gavin Kliger - Luke Farritor source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/ agency: USAID id: 6eXUJiZM - date: 2025-02-11 type: disruption event: >- The USAID Inspector General is fired by the White House after releasing a report critical of DOGE's actions at the agency. notable: true project: impunity source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/usaid-inspector-general-fired-trump/index.html agency: USAID id: bwTxGSiq - date: 2025-02-17 type: disruption event: >- A USAID official under Trump testifies that "changes in the process by which payments can be made and approved by the Agency over the past weeks" in the payment system were causing certain allowance statements to be delayed. project: spending source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/usaid-official-system-delayed-payments-staffers/story?id=118759911 agency: USAID id: iEaZoYn2 - date: 2025-02-20 type: report event: >- Trump political appointees and DOGE staffers hold an impromptu celebration of their work on the one-month anniversary of Trump's inauguration, complete with a celebratory cake, in the agency's new temporary offices where senior staff are isolated from the remaining career employees by a "moat" of 90 empty desks. notable: true project: impunity source: https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan linked: - Peter Marocco - Jeremy Lewin agency: USAID id: 4r9H2fp4 - date: 2025-02-23 type: disruption event: >- Employees at USAID receive emails with a "Specific Notice of a RIF" effective in 60 days and signed by Peter Marocco. Many employees had already been placed on administrative leave. notable: true project: elimination case_no: 8:25-cv-00462 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.111.1.pdf named: - Peter Marocco agency: USAID id: 60ZEU148 - date: 2025-02-27 type: disruption event: >- In a meeting the day after a federal judge ordered USAID to release funding for humanitarian operations, Jeremy Lewin, not yet in charge of programs at the agency, told senior staff that he viewed the legal rulings as a license to dispense with some of the formal reviews for unfreezing operations. One of the attendees took his remarks to mean he had no intention of unfreezing anything. project: impunity named: - Jeremy Lewin source: https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan agency: USAID id: 2jEu6jrf - date: 2025-02-28 type: disruption event: >- USAID staff working late and trying to keep programs operational notice changes being made to a spreadsheet of USAID operations, with an agency head Joel Borkert marking rows as green, yellow and red. Given the recent program cuts, staff interpreted this to mean he was looking for more programs to eliminate. The spreadsheet was assembled by DOGE staff by querying program management databases and had little detail about what the programs actually accomplished. USAID staff raced upstairs and convinced Borkert to save a few programs from termination. project: - spending source: https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan agency: USAID id: AufXX8p7 - date: 2025-03-01 type: disruption event: >- Reviewing the spreadsheet, Jeremy Lewin orders that 151 additional awards must be terminated, writing that he would "have strong objections to these awards being turned on." Emailing later at 11:30pm, Peter Marocco also states the reactivations were far too broad and indicating more programs to be terminated. project: spending linked: - Jeremy Lewin - Peter Marocco source: https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan agency: USAID id: 3nuRsGpc - date: 2025-03-10 type: official event: >- Posting from his account on X, Marco Rubio announces that the 6-week program review at USAID had concluded and 83% of programs (approximately 5200 contracts) had been cancelled. Only about 1000 awards were being continued. notable: true project: spending source: https://xcancel.com/marcorubio/status/1899021361797816325 named: - Marco Rubio agency: USAID id: 1kexCx1f - date: 2025-03-19 type: official event: >- Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles. named: - Peter Marocco - Jeremy Lewin - Kenneth Jackson source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html agency: USAID id: DnzAaqdz - date: 2025-03-26 type: disruption event: >- The IT department at USAID has been reduced from 100 to only 5 staffers – 3 IT operations employees, a project manager, and a single contracting officer. All employees focused on compliance and security are on administrative leave and a team to coordinate the transfer of IT assets from USAID to the Department of State was disbanded by Jeremy Lewin. notable: true project: - elimination named: - Jeremy Lewin agency: USAID source: https://fedscoop.com/usaids-information-technology-team-is-down-to-five-members/ id: 6xjZ7HV3 - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: >- Almost all of the remaining 900 USAID employees are terminated by email from Jeremy Lewin with RIFs that will go into effect either in July or September. notable: true project: elimination named: - Jeremy Lewin source: >- https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees agency: USAID id: 8mDKCq9a - date: 2025-04-08 type: disruption event: >- After Rubio and the Trump administration promised to keep many lifesaving humanitarian grant programs active, almost all of them are slashed over the weekend. Some of the cut programs are then restored later. In one example, Peter Marocco ordered staff to comply with White House orders to stop all funds to Afghanistan. In other cases, Jeremy Lewin appears to have been involved with the alterations. USAID staff are not informed directly of these changes but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been affected. notable: true project: - elimination - spending named: - Jeremy Lewin - Peter Marocco source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/usaid-cuts.html agency: USAID id: 7dyfN7Hx - date: 2025-07-01 type: disruption event: >- Under the direction of Marco Rubio, USAID officially ceases all operations for foreign aid. A study in the medical journal _Lancet_ suggests that the end of USAID will lead to [14 million deaths worldwide by 2030, with 4.5 million of those being children under that age of 5](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext). notable: true project: - elimination - spending source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/politics/us-aid-elimination-study-14-million-deaths agency: USAID id: 1BnDlVM6 - date: 2025-08-29 type: disruption event: >- Marco Rubio announces on TruthSocial that Russell Vought has been named as the new Acting Administrator of USAID to "oversee the closeout" of the agency after much of its staff was fired, certain responsibilities were absorbed into the State Department and grants were slashed named: - Marco Rubio - Russell Vought source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/rubio-usaid-closeout-vought-00536088 agency: USAID id: 3pUxtnKh - date: 2025-09-(25)~ type: onboard event: >- In a move that apparently hasn't been publicly announced everywhere, Federal Chief CIO Greg Barbaccia is listed as the Acting CIO for USAID on the CIO.gov page named: - Greg Barbaccia source: https://www.cio.gov/about/members-and-leadership/ agency: USAID id: 5j1JtCO2 - date: 2026-03-04 type: legal event: >- An appeals court blocked a ruling by a judge that would have compelled Elon Musk and other senior officials at USAID to testify under oath, finding that the lower court had "abused its discretion" in ordering the testimony. named: - Elon Musk - Jeremy Lewin - Peter Marocco source: https://news.bgov.com/litigation/elon-musk-deposition-blocked-by-appeals-court-in-doge-fight agency: USAID id: 3u0f37Uw - name: US Citizenship & Immigration Services id: USCIS short_name: USCIS slug: uscis parent_id: DHS page_slug: homeland-security events: - date: 2025-03-28 type: access event: >- USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling. named: - Kyle Schutt - Edward Coristine - Aram Moghaddassi - Payton Rehling source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-granted-access-to-naturalization-immigration-it-systems/ agency: USCIS id: 89o3v6YJ - date: 2025-05-22 type: official event: >- Brian Broderick of USCIS joins a call of the election committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State to expand the SAVE database to also include driver license and passport information. project: immigration source: >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26279276-texas-secretary-of-state-records-seeking-records-regarding-executive-order-14248/ agency: USCIS id: pv7iUAOV - name: US Institute of Peace id: USIP short_name: USIP slug: usip page_slug: independent#eo1 events: - date: 2025-02-24 type: interagency event: >- USIP leadership meets with DOGE staffers James Burnham, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh to explain the history and legal status of the small independent executive branch agency and why it should not need to respond to DOGE's demands. notable: true named: - James Burnham - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: JZFwZjbm - date: 2025-02-24 type: report event: >- The DOGE delegation counters to USIP leadership with their belief that minimum statutory size of agency is "a Board of Directors and a president, reports to Congress and the Executive branch, and expenses incident to the Board of Directors" and says they will regroup and return. project: elimination named: - James Burnham - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: R722EMkS - date: 2025-03-08 type: sighting event: >- USIP President George Moose becomes aware that DOGE is conducting some sort of reconnaisance with respect to USIP's security operations and the contractor who handles physical security at their building. notable: true project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: 8DQvc2a6 - date: 2025-03-09 type: disruption event: >- After receiving inquiries from the DOGE staff, the head of USIP security emailed them information about the private security firm that manages access to the HQ building. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.34.1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 named: - Nate Cavanaugh - James Burnham - Jacob Altik agency: USIP id: 3hmKgSFY - date: 2025-03-14 type: disruption event: >- Various members of the USIP board report receiving emails from the White House saying they are terminated from their positions. project: impunity fuzz: sender isn't named, but assuming it's Trent Morse. linked: - Trent Morse source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: aqE3KGWn - date: 2025-03-14 type: disruption event: >- DOGE members Kenneth Jackson, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh show up at USIP building with 2 other people who claim to be FBI agents. They are refused entry. The DOGE delegation attempts to present a document firing the USIP president. notable: true project: impunity named: - Kenneth Jackson - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/doge-institute-of-peace-takeover-musk-trump/ agency: USIP id: HQEKVVXw - date: 2025-03-16 type: disruption event: >- Two FBI agents visited a senior USIP security official at his home unannounced to ask about gaining entry to the building, possibly through pressuring the the Institute's security contractor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: fq2CQ8JW - date: 2025-03-16 type: disruption event: >- The Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Johnathan Hornok, and two FBI special agents call USIP's outside counsel, Mr. Foote, on the phone stating that they had suspicion of criminal behavior occuring at USIP. project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: aGS3jz8M - date: 2025-03-16 type: disruption event: >- Concerned that private contracting staff might be coerced by DOGE, the Chief Security Officer suspends the contract for building security contractor Inter-Con after being contacted by the FBI agents on the phone. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.2.2.pdf agency: USIP case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 id: VQeFmzx2 - date: 2025-03-16 type: disruption event: >- At 6pm, all Inter-Con staff are removed from the building, all keycard access is revoked and all physical keys accounted for except for a single one held by the Inter-Con account manager for USIP source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.2.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: L3bniPgw - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- At 2:30pm, the Inter-Con account manager and employees attempt to enter the building with key cards and are denied. They then use the single physical key still in their possession to enter the building. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.2.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: aCSPino3 - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- At 2:59pm, the USIP Security Chief calls DC police and institutes a high-level lockdown for the building. He observes with the security cameras that DOGE staff are attempting to gain entry on various doors. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.2.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: i2mnVSPK - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- Asked by USIP leadership on why they are assisting DOGE in accessing the building, the Vice President of Inter-Con concedes that DOGE threatened to cancel every single one of their federal contracts if they didn't comply. project: impunity source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.2.2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: Wn9hmCbb - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- USIP President George Moose reports being present when four Inter-Con employees entered the USIP building without permission. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: 9A3FaYQB - date: 2025-03-17 type: disruption event: >- DOGE members Kenneth Jackson, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh remove staff and president of the USIP with the help of Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police. Kenneth Jackson is named Acting President. notable: true project: elimination named: - Kenneth Jackson - Jacob Altik - Nate Cavanaugh source: - >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/doge-institute-of-peace-takeover-musk-trump/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf agency: USIP id: 6itXQAa6 - date: 2025-03-17 type: access event: >- Various USIP staff report receiving messages from DOGE staff asking them for employee lists and access to computer systems at the agency. project: personnel source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 agency: USIP id: nEGenYbj - date: 2025-03-19 type: disruption event: DOGE-affiliated staff start removing interior signage from the USIP building. project: elimination source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lkqia7po5c2a agency: USIP id: ERdvx9PE - date: 2025-03-19 type: legal event: >- Judge Beryl Howell presides over an emergency hearing, but doesn't grant USIP a temporary restraining order against DOGE's takeover of the agency. case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 source: https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lkqsbbysck2n agency: USIP id: M4hzjE85 - date: 2025-03-20 type: disruption event: The USIP website is taken offline. project: elimination source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lkskjyhqkk2p agency: USIP id: cNrE379u - date: 2025-03-25 type: disruption event: >- The remaining board of the USIP – Marco Rubio and Mike Hegseth – terminate Kenneth Jackson as the acting president of the USIP and appoint Nate Cavanaugh to the position. The resolution also authorizes Nate Cavanaugh to dispose of the building belonging to the USIP. notable: true project: elimination named: - Marco Rubio - Kenneth Jackson - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.14.1.pdf agency: USIP id: 1BuYblWM - date: 2025-03-28 type: disruption event: Almost all USIP HQ staff (200-300 people) receive termination notices sent late on a Friday night. notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/doge-usip-peace-institute-fired/ agency: USIP id: F84Anwi8 - date: 2025-03-31 type: official event: >- In a viral post on X, DOGE calls out what it sees as wasteful spending of the USIP. This includes a $132,000 grant to Mohammad Halimi, a former member of the Taliban who later switched sides and worked for the US and Afghan government. He is now living in exile as a vocal critic, but DOGE accused USIP of "funding the Taliban" by giving him a grant. project: - elimination - spending source: https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-musk-mohammad-halimi-institute-peace-taliban agency: USIP id: 61OS0hFN - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- The Defendants in the USIP lawsuit learn that GSA will be leasing the building to the Department of Labor. This is after Nate Cavanaugh transferred its ownership to the GSA. case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.34.1.pdf agency: USIP id: 1SIWo0cR - date: 2025-04-(09)~ type: disruption event: >- After DOGE's claim that USIP had funded the Taliban is picked up by the Afghan press, family members of exiled ex-Taliban critic Mohammad Halimi are arrested by the Taliban and beaten in prison. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-musk-mohammad-halimi-institute-peace-taliban agency: USIP id: 7lmemlNx - date: 2025-05-01 type: disruption event: >- Appearing on an interview with DOGE by Fox host Jesse Watters in his capacity as USIP President, Nate Cavanaugh repeats the claim that USIP was directly funding the Taliban through its grant to Mohammad Halimi. He makes similar distorted claims about other USIP spending. named: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-musk-mohammad-halimi-institute-peace-taliban agency: USIP id: 5mWMD8Bz - date: 2025-05-19 type: legal event: >- The judge presiding over the USIP's lawsuit against the Trump administration rules that the firing of the agency's board was illegal, rendering all subsequent actions taken by Nate Cavanaugh as President null and void. notable: true named: - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-institute-of-peace-lawsuit-39d79077c8fa5336634d518f30a9a807 agency: USIP id: 3ryF6bdi - date: 2025-05-21 type: official event: >- The US Institute of Peace reatakes control of its headquarters and leadership re-enters the premises for the first time since being escorted out in DOGE's takeover. comment: Should I have some sort of restoration event? source: >- https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-institute-of-peace-headquarters-df9dc7d4b1ea744db647527a4b28d807 agency: USIP id: 4t43UI0F - date: 2025-05-21 type: report event: >- Staff cleaning the USIP HQ after it is reclaimed by its owners find discarded marijuana, presumably left by DOGE staffers. It is currently illegal for federal workers to smoke pot, and especially so within government facilities. project: impunity source: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/02/elon-musks-failure-in-government agency: USIP id: 5hBdVW6l - date: 2025-06-27 type: legal event: >- A federal appeals court issues a stay on a lower-court ruling that blocked DOGE from taking over the USIP. In their ruling, the appeals panel noted that President Trump would face "irreparable harm from not being able to fully exercise his executive powers," should the injunction be allowed to stand. This restores Nate Cavanaugh as President of the USIP. linked: - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-institute-of-peace-1ef3d3d5307a8421d9490d41b40f4c70 agency: USIP id: 21WYwOWC - date: 2025-07-12 type: disruption event: >- Almost all USIP staff receive an email on Saturday telling them they are terminated effective immediately. project: elimination source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/us-institute-of-peace-employees-experience-mass-firings named: - Nate Cavanaugh agency: USIP id: 6RIjlGF4 - date: 2025-07-21 type: report event: >- The head of security for the US Institute of Peace sits for an interview discussing how he was betrayed by the security contractor for the agency and taking back custody of the building after the May 21st court ruling. source: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2025/07/USIP/reviving-security/ agency: USIP id: 6woiuaP3 - name: US International Development Finance Corporation id: USDFC slug: usdfc short_name: DFC page_slug: independent#regs events: - date: 2025-04-28 type: sighting event: >- A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation named: - Nate Cavanaugh - Jonathan Mendelson - Ethan Shaotran - Marshall Wood source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/doge-us-foreign-aid-agency-first-trump-administration-00314510 agency: USDFC id: 6HPPymkF - name: US Postal Service short_name: USPS id: USPS slug: usps doge_base: true page_slug: usps blurb: >- We don't know much about what DOGE is doing at USPS, apart from the fact that Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour were detailed there (because of specific skills or because their names were next to each other in an alphabetical list?). USPS has long been a target of conservative ire, with many arguing it's "losing money" (as if it were a business and not a service) and calling for its privatization. DOGE's efforts at USPS will probably hew to their standard staffing reductions and elimination of contracts. events: - date: 2025-03-13 type: official event: >- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sends a letter to Congress informing he has signed an agreement with GSA and DOGE to eliminate 10,000 jobs at the agency. He also explicitly authorized DOGE to only work with his agency on matters related to USPS retirement plans, workers compensation costs, congressional liaisoning regarding costs incurred by legislative mandates, reforms to its regulatory requirements, retail lease renewals, business opportunities with other federal agencies and counterfeit postage. project: - personnel - spending source: https://apnews.com/article/us-postal-service-doge-agreement-daf3bf54fa0718908791fcb368b4d9d8 agency: USPS id: VpxRy6SM - date: 2025-03-24 type: disruption event: Postmaster General DeJoy abruptly resigns, reportedly forced out by the Trump Administration source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/30/postal-service-changes-doge-musk/82696231007/ agency: USPS id: iLjg4Kvb - date: 2025-03-24 type: sighting event: >- Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules. named: - Ethan Shaotran - Alexander Simonpour comment: Listed as the day he was sworn in. That was March 24 source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/white-house-holds-meetings-new-postal-leadership-doge-and-treasury-discuss-reforming-usps/406202/ agency: USPS id: 6zWL2hm3 - date: 2025-04-XX type: sighting event: >- Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency. named: - Ethan Shaotran - Alexander Simonpour source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/white-house-holds-meetings-new-postal-leadership-doge-and-treasury-discuss-reforming-usps/406202/ agency: USPS id: 5GVJ0gVG - name: Veterans Administration id: VA short_name: VA slug: va page_slug: veterans doge_base: true events: - date: 2025-02-04 type: access event: >- A representative from DOGE was given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems. fuzz: not named, but likely Justin Fulcher comment: likely Justin Fulcher source: >- https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/05/elon-musk-aide-now-working-va-and-accessing-its-computer-systems.html linked: - Justin Fulcher agency: VA id: aTnKGs75 - date: 2025-02-10 type: disruption event: >- A day after a conservative activist flagged the DOGE account on X about it, DOGE posts on its X.com account that it has removed gender identity options from a specific online form at the VA. project: - dei source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-x-accounts-activists.html agency: VA id: MDH97ZzS - date: 2025-02-14 type: directory named: - Justin Fulcher event: >- Bloomberg publishes some background information on Justin Fulcher, the DOGE staffer working quietly at the VA, which questions the details of his backstory. source: >- https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/musks-top-doge-staffer-at-va-worked-quietly-before-its-layoffs-11739553094269.html agency: VA id: 2yiCepF3 - date: 2025-02-18 type: oversight event: >- Senate Democrats send a letter to VA Secretary demanding more information about DOGE's activities there. source: https://fedscoop.com/veterans-affairs-data-doge-elon-musk/ agency: VA id: GAFoNPPJ - date: 2025-02-25 type: official event: >- VA Secretary Doug Collins posts a message to X claiming that DOGE had found nearly $2 billion in contracts that could be eliminated. This figure will turn out to include important contracts that should not have been cancelled and need to be hastily restored. notable: true project: spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/va-savings-cuts-doge.html agency: VA id: 3TsSOGLO - date: 2025-02-26 type: disruption event: >- A day after posting it had found contracts to cancel, a top V.A. contracting official sends an agency-wide email "PLEASE HALT ALL CONTRACT TERMINATIONS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS" as leadership was re-considering the scope of its contract cancellations. project: spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/va-savings-cuts-doge.html agency: VA id: 1j9VkghD - date: 2025-03-25 source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/ type: directory event: >- Tech staffers and contractors noticed a new DOGE staffer, Sahil Lavingia, was pushing code to a repo in the VA's Github instance. He also appeared to be using an AI tool to write code. This later turns out to be code that is reviewing contracts to be terminated. notable: true project: - modernization - spending named: - Sahil Lavingia - Cary Volpert - Christopher Roussos - Justin Fulcher - Payton Rehling - Jon Koval agency: VA id: ja9gwcUS - date: 2025-05-08 type: report event: Fast Company runs an interview with Sahil Lavingia, who is promptly fired by DOGE the following day. source: https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad named: - Sahil Lavingia agency: VA id: 520nNb7r - date: 2025-05-13 type: disruption event: >- A new memo from the acting principal director for acquisitions at the VA declares that all new contracts for information technology and professional services or any other contract for more than $10 million must be approved first by either Christopher Roussos or Cary Volpert. In addition, they are now required to send weekly reports to both of the DOGE representatives. notable: true project: spending named: - Cary Volpert - Christopher Roussos agency: VA source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2025/05/va-sets-new-rules-for-contracts-worth-more-than-10-million/ id: 20Efrh5C - date: 2025-06-06 type: report event: >- ProPublica analyzes public code by Sahil Lavingia for an AI-powered tool to evaluate contracts at the VA and determine which ones are "munchable" (meaning they should be canceled). The analysis finds the AI was given poor instructions and lacks context to correctly make these decisions. project: - spending - modernization named: - Sahil Lavingia source: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia agency: VA id: 7C9WQbvz - date: 2025-06-25 agency: VA type: oversight event: >- Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency. project: - personnel - modernization named: - Justin Fulcher - Sahil Lavingia - Christopher Roussos - Payton Rehling - Cary Volpert - Jon Koval source: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-06-27/veterans-spyware-doge-18265276.html id: 5h6D4Qhp - date: 2025-07-07 type: disruption event: >- An unidentified DOGE team member used the official DOGE VA account on X.com to send a direct message ridiculing a Republican donor who had proposed the imaginary "DOGE Dividend Check" for turning against Musk and creating an anti-Musk SuperPAC. According to the administration, that person no longer works for the VA. project: impunity source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/white-house-looks-into-rogue-musk-loyalist-who-used-a-doge-account-to-dm-anti-elon-activist-00441688 agency: VA id: 2lsi7ErJ - name: US Agency for Global Media id: USAGM short_name: USAGM slug: usagm page_slug: independent#eo2 events: - date: 2025-03-(01)~ type: sighting event: Gavin Kliger is reportedly spotted inside the headquarters for Voice of America. named: - Gavin Kliger source: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-guts-voice-america-rf-europe agency: USAGM id: 72in3sZp - date: 2025-03-15 type: disruption event: >- In response to Trump's second executive order against independent agencies (EO 14238), virtually the entire staff of Voice of America (more than 1300 people) are placed on indefinite admininstrative leave. notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/trump-media-voice-of-america-00003119 agency: USAGM id: 4hiplHwp - date: 2025-03-15 type: disruption event: >- In response to Trump's executive order targeting independent agencies, Trump's senior advisor at the agency, Kari Lake, sends out termination notices for all grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It is unclear if she has the authority to issue such terminations. notable: true project: elimination source: >- https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5329244/bloody-saturday-voiceofamerica-radio-free-asia-europe-trump-kari-lake agency: USAGM id: 2gnayKDY - date: 2025-05-02 type: disruption event: >- Radio Free Asia announces it is laying off 90% of its staff and stopping many of its language services due to the loss of funding after USAGM head Kari Lake terminated all grants in March. project: elimination source: >- https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5385314/radio-free-asia-announces-mass-layoffs-amid-funding-fight-with-trump-administration agency: USAGM id: 30TWoPlt - date: 2025-05-15 type: disruption event: >- The US Agency for Global Media starts sending termination notices to contractors, some of whom are on J1 visas and would be forced to leave the country within 30 days. project: elimination source: >- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/05/15/will-scotus-throw-doge-a-bone-00352724 agency: USAGM id: 3mVJbIEe - date: 2025-06-06 type: disruption event: >- Analysis by a USAGM grantee based on public data reveals that China has expanded its own propaganda and programming to counter the void left by the closure of Radio Free Asia. source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-propaganda-surges-as-the-us-defunds-radio-free-asia/ar-AA1GcIy1 agency: USAGM id: 5ZVq4pHh - date: 2025-06-14 type: report event: >- Surprised by Israel's strikes on Iran and unable to counter Iranian programming, the Voice of America orders all of its Farsi-speaking members in the Voice of America's Persian wing immediately back to work. All of them had been on enforced administrative leave for several months. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/13/voa-persian-service-iran-israel-00406092 agency: USAGM id: 7GI672HF - date: 2025-07-02 type: legal event: >- A judge grants a request for a temporary restraining order by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and orders the USAGM to immediately disburse the appropriated funds for the month of June that it had withheld. project: spending source: >- https://about.rferl.org/article/in-latest-legal-win-us-district-court-orders-usagm-to-release-rfe-rl-funding-for-june/ agency: USAGM id: rGN58xuG - date: 2025-09-29 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00887 event: >- Ruling in _Widakuswara v. Lake_, Judge Lambeth declares that the government must pause its layoff plans at the US Agency for Global Media and lambasted the administration for showing a "concerning disrepect" for the court's preliminary injunction notable: true project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278809/gov.uscourts.dcd.278809.100.0.pdf agency: USAGM id: 3UMN6nbf - date: 2026-03-08 type: legal event: >- Judge Royce Lambeth rules that USAGM administrator Kari Lake had violated both the Constitution and the statutes governing the agency. He declared all of Lake's actions as null and void after she took over leadership of the agency. notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5741594/u-s-judge-kari-lake-broke-law-voice-of-america agency: USAGM id: 1nDYhmUy - date: 2026-03-17 type: legal event: >- A federal judge rules that USAGM must reinstate by Monday all of the 1,042 employees who had been put on indefinite administrative leave as a prelude to eliminating the agency, declaring Kari Lake's actions to destroy the agency as "arbitrary and capricious." project: elimination source: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5751162/voice-of-america-lawsuit-kari-lake agency: USAGM id: 3LpBFmcD - name: US Interagency Council on Homelessness id: USICH short_name: USICH slug: usich page_slug: independent#eo2 events: [] - name: Woodrow Wilson Intl. Center for Scholars id: WWICS short_name: WWICS slug: wwics page_slug: independent#eo2 events: - date: 2025-03-31 type: sighting event: >- DOGE staff reportedly visit the Wilson Center for Scholars headquarters. In other reporting, the _New York Times_ had identified Justin Fox as part of this delegation. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/doge-wilson-center.html comment: Linked to WWICS by NPR linked: - Justin Fox agency: WWICS id: 2Etft9eI - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- Mark Green, a Republican who once worked for Trump, is forced out as the head of the Wilson Center. Several members of the board were also reportedly fired earlier. notable: true project: elimination source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/doge-wilson-center.html agency: WWICS id: 1wT0qavH - date: 2025-11-10 type: official event: >- Months after the dissolution of the Wilson Center, the Kennan Institute, researching Russia and its surrounding region, is able to relaunch as a smaller but independent entity. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/kennan-institute-doge-trump.html agency: WWICS id: 77Mi2H6Z