# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/interagency-events-file.json --- - date: 2025-01-20 type: official event: >- In another executive order EO 14170, Trump declares a hiring freeze and that DOGE will work with OMB and OPM to submit a plan to reduce the size of the government within 90 days source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiring-freeze/ agency: - DOGE - OMB - OPM id: cSecvrNE - date: 2025-01-23 type: interagency event: >- An unnamed USAID official receives an angry late-night phone call from Peter Marocco, the newly appointed Director of Foreign Assistance at the US State Department, accusing employees of trying to subvert the President's executive order imposing a 90-day pause on all foreign aid. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html agency: - USAID - State interagency_doge_reps: State: - Peter Marocco id: 5H2A8pfs - date: 2025-01-24 type: official event: >- The State Department issues a memo written by Peter Marocco and signed by Marco Rubio that not only puts a halt to future foreign aid but also insists on stop-work orders for ~6200 current grants and contracts at USAID. named: - Marco Rubio - Peter Marocco agency: - State - USAID source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html id: 34gvpQTX - date: 2025-01-24 type: interagency event: >- Representing OPM, James Sullivan coordinates in an email to Department of Energy officials on several DOGE-led initiatives. One messages states "as discussed over the phone, when you compile the list of 69 DEI employees placed on admin leave, please share with Amanda and myself." Energy officials also send a list of 1394 probationary employees to Amanda Scales, all of whom will be fired. named: - James Sullivan - Amanda Scales source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-the-energy-department-got-doged/ interagency_doge_reps: OPM: - James Sullivan - Amanda Scales agency: - OPM - Energy id: 7FBiV0yI - date: 2025-01-31 type: interagency event: >- The Department of Energy consults with DOGE staff at OPM about return-to-office mandates. Clayton Cromer handles the exchange from OPM's side. named: - Clayton Cromer source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-the-energy-department-got-doged/ interagency_doge_reps: OPM: - Clayton Cromer agency: - Energy - OPM id: gxS5QPey - date: 2025-02-XX type: interagency fuzz: time is just given as February event: >- A whistleblower reports attending a meeting with USDS Administrator Amy Gleason, the SSA CIO Scott Coulter and several other DOGE staffers at the agency. The whistleblower reports that Gleason did not contribute to the meeting and was clearly not directing DOGE activities at the agency. source: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOGE_REPORT_FINAL_7.pdf interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Amy Gleason SSA: - Scott Coulter agency: - DOGE - SSA id: 2I503GMI - date: 2025-02-03 time: '12:33' type: action named: - Edward Coristine - Donald Park event: >- Elias Hernandez, the associate administrator for the Office of Veterans Business Development at SBA, emails the director of the National Finance Center (NFC) asking for immediate admin access to the mainframe for "all SBA Personnel Office Identifiers (POIs)". NFC is a shared service from USDA that handles payroll for roughly 150,000 federal employees across 170 agencies including the SBA. agency: - SBA - USDA source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ id: 1Pg4mnKv - date: 2025-02-07 type: report fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7 event: >- After gaining access to the PAM DB system for payments, DOGE members at the Treasury department discover what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. These discrepancies lead to Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud on his Twitter feed, but later analysis by SSA staff reveal these were cases of DOGE not understanding how the data was structured. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: - SSA - Treasury id: 1sruV2vD - date: 2025-02-12 type: disruption event: >- In a meeting on foreign aid at OMB, Russell Vought stuns staffers by asking them to cut foreign aid to the greatest extent possible. When told that the cuts will lead to more people dying, he reportedly nonchalantly replied “you could say that about any of these cuts.” named: - Russell Vought source: https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb agency: - OMB - State - USAID id: 5x6u5tTI - date: 2025-02-12 type: disruption event: >- In a meeting at the OMB, Russell Vought reportedly asks OMB staffers what options would allow them to dismantle the USIP. When he was told it was independent and funded by Congress, he replied "we'll see what we can do." source: https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb agency: - OMB - USIP id: 39sj0T02 - date: 2025-02-13 type: interagency event: >- Representing DOGE and OPM, Noah Peters finalizes mass layoffs at the USDA just before Secretary Rollins is to be sworn in that evening. When asked later by Congress about the layoffs, she deflects and says it happened before she started. source: >- https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/16/farming-in-the-dark-brooke-rollins-leadership-doges-grip-and-the-cost-to-american-agriculture/ interagency_doge_reps: OPM: - Noah Peters agency: - USDA - OPM id: 149BygfY - date: 2025-02-17 type: interagency event: >- Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as "one of the attorneys at DOGE" and to also inform them "I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow." He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It's unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration. named: - Scott Coulter - Joshua Fox - Amy Gleason - James Burnham - Kendall Lindemann agency: - NASA - DOGE interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Joshua Fox - Amy Gleason - James Burnham - Kendall Lindemann NASA: - Scott Coulter source: https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2026/01/14/25-00683-F-HQ_Final.pdf id: 3daEajrb - date: 2025-02-18 type: interagency event: >- Kendall Lindemann contacts the FCC on behalf of DOGE and Amy Gleason to start the process of detailing several DOGE staffers to the agency. named: - Kendall Lindemann - Amy Gleason source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ agency: - FCC - DOGE id: 1u9rCt0H - date: 2025-02-19 type: official event: >- Trump issues EO 14217, which explicitly targets the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace for reductions. source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/ agency: - IAF - USADF - USIP id: KMD5RgCU - date: 2025-02-21 type: interagency event: >- Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh return to the IAF with Jacob Altik, who presented himself as representing the EOP. Altik confirms that DOGE plans to reduce IAF to what he considers the statutory minimum (a board and president, a location in DC, some grants) and DOGE will be conducting a Reduction in Force of all employees and terminating all grants. The demand approval from the board and threaten the board will be fired otherwise. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf agency: - IAF - GSA - DOGE interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Nate Cavanaugh - Ethan Shaotran DOGE: - Jacob Altik case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 id: CuJmM2lv - date: 2025-02-(26)~ type: interagency fuzz: Date is just given as "Late February" event: >- During a call of human capital officers led by OPM, a representative for the GSA announces they are working on a "new federal daily check-in tool." A test email was sent out on the same day. They announce plans to debut the tool by the first week in March. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/30/return-to-office-track-federal-office-occupancy/ agency: - OPM - GSA id: 5zOTAHYX - date: 2025-03-01 type: report comment: Actual start date in March unknown event: >- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE has handled data at several agencies. source: https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/ agency: - DOL - Education - DHS - Treasury - SSA - OPM id: hocQ5vQK - date: 2025-03-XX type: official event: >- Aram Moghaddassi writes to Florida officials to state "we’re working on SAVE access for Florida law enforcement now." He also requests information from Florida, claiming that ICE "has several leads on non-citizen voting in Florida and would like to work with Florida to investigate and prosecute these cases." named: - Aram Moghaddassi source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/dhs-gathering-drivers-license-save-voter-fraud-crusade/ agency: - ICE - USCIS - SSA id: 4XjaSBw5 - date: 2025-03-05 type: interagency event: >- Complying with the demands in EO 14217, USIP leadership submits a letter to OMB asserting that USIP is an independent nonprofit organization, not a federal agency and that the measures in the executive order do not apply. 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 - OMB id: 4BC649hy - date: 2025-03-12 type: interagency event: >- Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number). named: - Jordan Wick - Tarak Makecha - Steve Davis source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ agency: - DOGE - FCC id: 1k1saJCZ - date: 2025-03-13 type: interagency event: >- Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob) named: - Jacob Altik - Tarak Makecha - Joshua Fox source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ agency: - DOGE - FCC id: 3bYZM1nm - date: 2025-03-14 type: official event: >- Trump issues a new executive order EO 14238 targeting the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media (parent of VOA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and the Minority Business Development Agency for reduction actions by DOGE. source: >- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/ agency: - IMLS - MBDA - FMCS - USAGM - WWICS id: 2SuEXjcm - date: 2025-03-17 type: interagency event: >- In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE's "onboarding/HR/personnel expert." named: - Joshua Fox - Jordan Wick - Kendall Lindemann source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ agency: - DOGE - FCC id: 60kub7IM - date: 2025-03-18 type: interagency event: >- A senior policy strategist at the White House relays a "Stephen request" (meaning Stephen Miller) that "POTUS wants to see more action against universities." Included in the initial coordination is GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum. He becomes involved with figuring out grants from multiple agencies to cut for both University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University, because they had allowed trans athletes to participate in sports. This is very much not his area of responsibility at the GSA, but he is on the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism which stripped funding from Columbia Univesity. interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum source: >- https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/white-house-penn-funding-cut-san-jose-state-secret-internal-emails agency: - OMB - GSA id: 3lwvzoQN - date: 2025-03-19 type: interagency event: >- During a discussion on how to strip grants from the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State, GSA FAS Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum sends an email to coordinate grant freezes from DOD, DHS and the EPA. He includes DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Adam Hoffman and Kathryn Armstrong Loving as the recipients of these requests. interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum DHS: - Kyle Schutt - Adam Hoffman EPA: - Kathryn Armstrong Loving source: >- https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/white-house-penn-funding-cut-san-jose-state-secret-internal-emails agency: - GSA - DOD - DHS - EPA id: 3zJD3Nlx - date: 2025-03-(24)~ type: disruption fuzz: Source mentions it was on or about this date event: >- NLRB networking staff make a formal report to US-CERT at CISA of the suspicious activity they had detected from DOGE's activities at the agency. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: - NLRB - CISA id: YB29uMET - date: 2025-03-25 type: interagency event: >- Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA. interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum EPA: - Kathryn Armstrong Loving - Erica Jehling source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.scd.301710/gov.uscourts.scd.301710.109.1.pdf case_no: 2:25-cv-02152 agency: - GSA - EPA id: 5SAkewbh - date: 2025-03-(25)~ type: interagency event: >- At a meeting on data sharing, an official from ICE requests that the IRS should create a service where DHS staff could simply provide the names and states of potential targets and get a list of all applicable addresses. IRS lawyers are stunned by the possible illegality and continued pressure leads to a series of resignations among staff in legal, privacy and IT offices within the IRS. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations agency: - IRS - ICE id: CTZmHEIp - date: 2025-03-31 type: report event: >- Politico reports that Brad Smith, who crafted the plan to layoff 10,000 staffers within HHS, is facing criticism from other DOGE staffers for attempting to shield CMS from the brunt of the layoffs. His aide, Rachel Riley is accused of being extraordinarily secretive with the plan. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/doge-hhs-firings-delayed-00262115 named: - Brad Smith - Rachel Riley agency: - CMS - HHS id: SixRwXSZ - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE's false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. She asserts "the number is 40 percent." interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Katie Miller SSA: - Leland Dudek source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html agency: - SSA - DOGE id: 1YdIZqg4 - date: 2025-04-01 type: disruption event: >- HHS issues Reduction-in-Force orders for 10,000 employees across many divisions (FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS) in the name of "bureaucratic realignment." Despite RFK's promises, the layoffs do include many scientists source: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57485/hhs-fda-layoffs-doge-cdc-nih/ agency: - HHS - FDA - CDC - NIH - CMS id: 6BGD7wuo - date: 2025-04-03 type: interagency event: >- A human resources division chief at the Peace Corps reports receiving two phone calls in quick succession. The first was from a Senior Advisor at OPM who also claimed to be a liasion for the White House, reporting that a DOGE representative would be detailed from USAID. The second was from a woman detailed to DOGE from GSA, who stated she was originally going to be detailed to USAID but will now be in a leadership position short term. She is not identified but is likely Bridget Youngs. source: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r_9nu.fNf5II/v0 linked: - Bridget Youngs named_aliases: - PeaceCorps-02 agency: - GSA - PeaceCorps - OMB id: 6B8UPLrU - date: 2025-04-04 type: disruption event: >- CISA informs NLRB networking staff that they should drop any investigation and not move forward on any reporting of the suspicious activity at the agency. source: >- https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf agency: - NLRB - CISA id: 2SR8EJa8 - date: 2025-04-07 type: legal event: >- In a 2-1 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay against DOGE data access at the Treasury, OPM and Department of Education imposed in the case _American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent et al_. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178115/gov.uscourts.ca4.178115.17.0.pdf case_no: 8:25-cv-00430 agency: - Treasury - OPM - Education id: aLxLCzjS - date: 2025-04-07 type: interagency event: >- The IRS and DHS execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for data sharing between both agencies. Although DOGE is not named specifically in this agreement, ICE is allowed to designate authorized individuals to access the shared data. AI usage must also be reviewed first by the IRS. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00677 agency: - Treasury - IRS - DHS - ICE id: UaUYi68M - date: 2025-04-07 type: interagency event: >- After some qualms about its legality, Leland Dudek signs two memos authorizing sharing data from the Social Security Administration that would allow DHS and ICE to locate immigrants who had been paying taxes to Social Security (despite not being able to collect it). source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/ interagency_doge_reps: SSA: - Leland Dudek agency: - SSA - DHS - ICE id: b3H44hoj - date: 2025-04-08 type: interagency event: >- Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC's progress on removing regulations. named: - Jacob Altik - Ashley Boizelle linked: - Jordan Wick - Tarak Makecha source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ agency: - DOGE - FCC id: 46FT2h6z - date: 2025-04-10 type: disruption event: >- A leaked OMB budget proposal memorandum propose major changes to the discretionary budget for the Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, it includes cutting that budget by a third and also consolidating various health and safety-related agencies into a new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) overseen by the HHS Secretary. source: >- https://natlawreview.com/article/recent-developments-consumer-product-safety-commission-potential-changes-and agency: - HHS - CMS - CDC - NIH - FDA - CPSC id: 2abB0Nt3 - date: 2025-04-10 type: interagency event: >- AmeriCorps' acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/trump-presidency-news-tariffs/ theme: personnel agency: - AmeriCorps - OPM - OMB id: E2XtrgBb - date: 2025-04-11 type: disruption event: >- Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted. named: - Luke Farritor source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/ agency: - HHS - USDA - Commerce - DOD - Education - Energy - HUD - DOJ - DOL - State - DOT - VA - EPA - NASA - NARA - NEH - NSF - SBA id: 3J3t5FxO - date: 2025-04-(12)? type: access fuzz: >- Date isn't given, assuming this is after Leland Dudek signed data sharing agreement, but it's possible agreement was retroactive cover event: >- The Social Security Administration shares sensitive information on 100,000 people with DHS, including their addresses, social security numbers, birth and death dates and bank information. Leland Dudek reports this request was made via a phone call late on a Saturday night with the justification that it was needed for a criminal investigation. named: - Leland Dudek source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/ agency: - SSA - DHS id: 1edZQ68L - date: 2025-04-21 type: official event: >- OMB issues a new memo mandating that agencies must collect daily occupancy data on all workers by May 4th. To support this effort, GSA unveils a website outlining methods to track federal workers, including mandatory daily surveys, monitoring badge usage or even video surveillance. source: >- https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/for-federal-customers/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data agency: - OMB - GSA id: 4Dk4zhPh - date: 2025-04-30 type: interagency event: >- As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information. source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum NASA: - Alexander Simonpour agency: - GSA - NASA id: XTNDoswP - date: 2025-05-XX type: interagency fuzz: No other specific date information is given event: >- In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council. interagency_doge_reps: USPS: - Ethan Shaotran - Alexander Simonpour DOGE: - James Burnham agency: - USPS - DOGE source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/white-house-holds-meetings-new-postal-leadership-doge-and-treasury-discuss-reforming-usps/406202/ id: 36WoUM5z - date: 2025-05-01 type: interagency event: >- A glimpse of Luke Farritor's visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a "connect" with OMB about the National Science Foundation interagency_doge_reps: NSF: - Luke Farritor agency: - NSF - OMB source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/ id: 5thSMkbE - date: 2025-05-05 type: interagency event: >- Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC to ask how the agency handles outside comments on high-profile rulemakings and if they contract with an outside service. named: - Ashley Boizelle agency: - DOGE - FCC source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ id: 3Kixbc82 - date: 2025-05-08 type: interagency event: >- DOGE staff at NASA, GSA and the White House finalize a list of five NASA grants to be killed and discuss the language for the terminiation letters in a series of email discussions and meetings to 11pm that night. The agency sends a letter to Harvard the following day. source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum NASA: - Alexander Simonpour agency: - GSA - NASA id: 5Hd8y5Og - date: 2025-05-08 type: interagency event: >- Jeremy Lichtman emails USDA officials to inform them that GSA (likely Josh Gruenbaum) had directed them to review several agency grants for termination. These terminations were reportedly "awaiting final greenlight from the White House." source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Josh Gruenbaum USDA: - Jeremy Lichtman agency: - GSA - USDA id: ZinXzZnu - date: 2025-05-12 type: disruption event: >- In a retaliation against the university coordinated by GSA, grants for Harvard University from DOD, HUD, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education are all terminated. There were 200 grants from DOD alone. The stated reasons varied but included that they no longer effectuated the administration's priorities or directly accusing Harvard of fostering antisemitism on campus. source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ agency: - GSA - DOD - HUD - Energy - Education id: 63fh5vI1 - date: 2025-05-13 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _Rhode Island v. Trump_, Judge McConnell grants a preliminary injunction preventing DOGE and the Trump Administration from dismantling the IMLS, MBDA and FMCS while the case is active. case_no: 1:25-cv-00128 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.60.0_1.pdf agency: - IMLS - MBDA - FMCS id: 118tBN7i - date: 2025-05-19 type: interagency event: >- A glimpse of Luke Farritor's visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a quick sync with a finance department deputy at the agency and a DOGE liasion. agency: - DOL - DOGE named: - Luke Farritor source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/ id: 2HBdee67 - date: 2025-05-20 type: disruption event: >- In a post on its X account, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have already eliminated 5 surveys that include questions about alcohol consumption and internet usage. source: https://bsky.app/profile/hansilowang.bsky.social/post/3lpmvsh6byc2o agency: - DOGE - Census id: 3zmjW3zT - date: 2025-05-22 type: interagency event: >- Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn't want to do. named: - Katie Miller - Elon Musk linked: - Steve Davis - Anthony Armstrong - Antonio Gracias source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110 agency: - DOGE - EOP id: 38VI5Jnv - date: 2025-05-23 type: interagency source: >- https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-doj-accelerates-its-hunt-for-voter-fraud-with-doges-help/ event: >- In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the Department of Justice had requested for DOGE to find "10-20 cases" of alleged noncitizen voting in every state. named: - Antonio Gracias agency: - DOJ - DHS id: 47a5ugPC - date: 2025-05-27 type: interagency event: >- A glimpse of Luke Farritor's visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a meeting with a representative from the Department of Justice and another from the FBI. fuzz: >- It's unclear what agency Farritor is representing here, but assuming it's DOL since other events were there. agency: - DOL - FBI - DOJ named: - Luke Farritor interagency_doge_reps: DOL: - Luke Farritor source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/ id: 4hatylun - date: 2025-06-XX type: report event: >- After several DOGE staffers expressed concerns that he should not have access to government information or continue to direct DOGE staff, Steve Davis reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies. named: - Steve Davis - Sam Corcos source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-elon-musk-left-control-92770407 agency: - DOGE - Treasury id: 4nZTdaoY - date: 2025-06-XX type: interagency event: >- A lawyer at ICE proposes expanding the original data sharing MOU between the agency to also support requesting data on US citizens and lawful permanent residents (it had been limited to undocumented immigrants previously). Anthony DeMello rejected this change at the IRS and insisted that senior leadership at Treasury would have to sign off on this due to possible legal risks. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations fuzz: meeting date not given agency: - IRS - ICE id: 4KKta0mn - date: 2025-06-03 type: legal event: >- HHS employees from multiple agencies who were fired in the recent Reduction-in-Force at the agency file a class action lawsuit claiming that the data used for the retention register was fatally flawed and DOGE practiced no due diligence in correcting for that. 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: - HHS - CDC - CMS - FDA id: 5Gti8aTf - date: 2025-06-03 type: interagency event: >- Steve Davis walked into DOGE's weekly meeting at the GSA, asserting he was still in charge even though he was no longer a government employee. The acting director of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, reportedly responded “Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not" to DOGE members confused by this turn of events. named: - Steve Davis - Stephen Ehikian source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110 agency: - DOGE - GSA id: 3MBTHcZ5 - date: 2025-06-05 type: action event: >- Despite having left DOGE a week prior, Steve Davis reportedly holds a meeting with DOGE staff hosted on the sixth floor of the GSA headquarters. At the meeting, he reportedly proposes a "DOGE 2.0" which would be more collaborative with agency heads. named: - Steve Davis linked: - Stephen Ehikian source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 agency: - DOGE - GSA id: 7aqPkVR2 - date: 2025-06-(05)~ type: disruption event: >- Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself. named: - Steve Davis - Anthony Armstrong - Josh Gruenbaum - Stephen Ehikian agency: - GSA - DOGE source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 id: 1nLi50HW - date: 2025-06-06 type: legal event: >- In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the Supreme Court rejected an injunction that prevented DOGE from accessing Social Security data. In a setback for privacy advocates, this will allow for SSA to share data with DOGE and other agencies, while the case about the legality of that proceeds. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-social-security.html agency: - DOGE - SSA id: 5RHujvBq - date: 2025-06-06 type: access event: >- Medicaid staff at CMS are ordered by CMS and HHS leadership to immediately share with DHS data from Medicaid program in certain states that allow non-US citizens to be enrolled. This information could be used by ICE to target and deport immigrants who are legally collecting state benefits. source: https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22 agency: - CMS - HHS - DHS id: 2qesnQ5E - date: 2025-06-18 type: disruption event: >- Following the guidance in EO 14222, DHS head Kristi Noem demands that every contract and grant worth more than $100,000 must be explicitly reviewed and approved by her. This particularly alarms staff at FEMA who warn that it will destroy the agency's ability to respond to disasters in a timely manner. agency: - DHS - FEMA - TSA - ICE - USCIS source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/politics/kristi-noem-fema-dhs-funding id: 6GtPePGY - date: 2025-06-24 type: disruption event: >- Jeremy Lewin overrides many objections by staffers reviewing the grant and rushes a grant of $30 million for the month of June to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation only five days after its funding request was submitted. The request was also handled by Kenneth Jackson and accumulated over 58 objections from USAID staffers that GHF failed both technical and financial requirements for aid recipients. GHF was hastily formed in February 2025 and has been faulted for forcing Palestinians to navigate crowded militarized zones to receive aid. This has resulted in multiple mass killings near GHF sites. named: - Jeremy Lewin - Kenneth Jackson source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-doge-official-rushed-grant-trump-backed-gaza-aid-group-over-staff-2025-07-09/ agency: - USAID - State id: 3OFYYVBv - date: 2025-06-25 type: disruption event: >- In a surprise move, the Republican governor of Virginia, the head of public buildings service at GSA and the Commissioner for HUD announce that they will be kicking out the National Science Foundation (NSF) from its Virginia headquarters and moving HUD to that location. There are no details provided on where NSF is expected to relocate to. source: >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/hud-move-national-science-foundation-headquarters-no-current-plan-where-relocate-nsf-employees/406315/ agency: - GSA - HUD - NSF id: 1nJG7vMh - date: 2025-06-25 type: interagency event: >- Although he was considered more friendly to the Trump admininstration and DOGE, Andrew DeMello, the acting general counsel for the IRS refuses to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers that had been requested by ICE. He declares there are multiple legal "deficiencies" with the request that do not meet the legal safeguards that were listed in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for this process, which declared that such data could only be shared for open criminal investigations. source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations agency: - IRS - ICE id: 3cyyrMrH - date: 2025-06-26 type: disruption event: >- The Department of Defense announced that it would immediately stop ingesting and sharing data from 3 microwave-imaging satellites with NOAA's National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent "sunrise surprises" by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. The change is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts. source: https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool agency: - NOAA - DOD id: 7lpMwcEg - date: 2025-06-26 type: official event: >- In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn't necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system. linked: - Luke Farritor agency: - HHS - USDA - Commerce - DOD - Education - Energy - HUD - DOJ - DOL - State - DOT - VA - EPA - NASA - NARA - NEH - NSF - SBA source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/doge-loses-control-federal-grants/ id: 5FtSVXWx - date: 2025-06-27 type: legal event: >- Ruling in the case _AFL-CIO v. DOL_, Judge Bates determines that he cannot issue a preliminary injunction that would prevent DOGE staffers from accessing sensitive systems at DOL and HHS. DOGE access was never suspended by this case. agency: - DOL - HHS - CMS - CDC - FDA source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.87.0_2.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00339 id: hcQYCnwZ - date: 2025-06-30 type: interagency event: >- Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC for information about their deregulation work at the agency. named: - Ashley Boizelle agency: - DOGE - FCC source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379170-fcc-foia-production-2-for-frequency-forward/ id: 43r5wMWb - date: 2025-07-01 type: action event: >- DOGE gives a presentation of a "DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool" that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren't meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet's work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/doge-ai-tool-cut-regulations-trump/ linked: - Christopher Sweet named: - James Burnham - Austin Raynor - Jacob Altik - Ashley Boizelle agency: - DOGE - HUD - CFPB id: 5l4oS6xo - date: 2025-07-14 type: disruption event: >- Declaring that a Supreme Court shadown docket ruling on July 8th gave them the go-ahead, HHS declares a Reduction-in-Force that was initiated on April 1st is still in effect by sending affected employees a messages stating "You are hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025. Thank you for your service to the American people." The number of affected employees is in the thousands, but some of the 10,000 fired in the original RIF are still protected by another case _New York v. Kennedy_. agency: - HHS - FDA - CDC - CMS - NIH source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/health/hhs-layoffs-supreme-court id: 6jAlgVJa - date: 2025-07-14 type: disruption event: >- Months after the destruction of USAID and folding in some of its staff and responsibilities into the US Department of State, the Trump administration incinerates 500 million tons of emergency food biscuits worth $800,000 rather than sending it to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it could have fed 1.5 million children for a week because it was due to expire. Marco Rubio had promised the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure food aid is distributed before expiration, but the government eliminated all aid to Afghanistan and refused to divert the food to other emergency crises. The cost of destroying the biscuits will be $130,000 making this nearly a $1 million dollar loss incurred by DOGE (not to mention lives that will be lost). named: - Marco Rubio source: >- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=MyeD1MinhSiXWFRRGViAl0pj0v8-kcNr6rQW3-QS1YU agency: - USAID - State id: 2JQwgqr4 - date: 2025-07-16 type: access event: >- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Access (CMS) within HHS have reportedly signed a deal to deliver information on all 79 million enrollees in Medicaid to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This information, which includes the addresses and ethnicities of enrollees, will supercharge a surveillance machine assembled by DOGE that is being used by ICE to arrest undocumented immigrants (and others). source: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7 agency: - DHS - ICE - HHS - CMS id: 7T4tS2gc - date: 2025-07-17 type: disruption event: >- Congress passess a $9 billion recissions package that codifies DOGE cuts to foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, despite concerns from Democrats and two Senate Republicans that its cuts are purposefully vague and undermine Congress' role in the budget process. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-bill-pbs-npr-foreign-aid.html agency: - USAID - State - CPB id: 6MnCvHNL - date: 2025-07-23 type: interagency event: >- Citing safety concerns, the head of the CFPB (Russell Vought) signs an agreement with the head of the OMB (Russell Vought) to spend $4.7 milliion of the CFPB's budget from now through December to provide a security detail for Russell Vought. This is the same time as the agency is facing its budget being slashed in half. named: - Russell Vought source: https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/russ-vought-bills-cfpb-5m-his-security-detail/406928/ agency: - CFPB - OMB id: TXsbSUw4 - date: 2025-08-(03)~ type: interagency fuzz: Date given is "a short time after" the AI task force is created event: >- SEC leadership meets with DOGE representatives Jonathan Mendelson and Christopher Sweet to discuss using Sweet's AI tool to identify regulations to cut or modify at the agency. It's unclear if Sweet is detailed to the agency or just demonstrating the tool to SEC staff. Reportedly, agency staff then used the tool to identify thousands of regulations to cut. The list will then be reviewed by agency leadership and lawyers. agency: - SEC - HUD interagency_doge_reps: SEC: - Jonathan Mendelson HUD: - Christopher Sweet source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/doge-using-ai-target-sec-regulations-cutting id: 6SPuXdLX - date: 2025-08-12 type: legal event: >- Citing a Supreme Court shadow docket ruling as precedent, a DC Appeals Court overturned a stay from February and ordered that DOGE should be allowed to access sensitive data at the Treasury Department, OPM and Department of Education. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/appeals-court-doge-data.html agency: - Treasury - IRS - OPM - Education id: bgrnWVL6 - date: 2025-08-13 type: interagency event: >- In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced. named: - Scott Langmack - Christopher Sweet - Steve Davis interagency_doge_reps: HUD: - Scott Langmack - Christopher Sweet agency: - EOP - DOGE - EPA - State - FDIC - HUD source: https://www.wired.com/story/sweetrex-deregulation-ai-us-government-regulation-doge/ id: 6mONSb0E - date: 2025-09-09 type: legal event: >- Acting on his own, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay blocking a lower court ruling that ordered the Trump administration to immediately pay out $4 billion in funds appropriated by Congress for foreign aid. This case will be taken up by the full Court, but there is the risk of the Trump administration practicing a "pocket recission" to eliminate the funding. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html agency: - USAID - State id: 3GmxMByz - date: 2025-09-09 type: official event: >- All employees at HHS and its subsidiary agencies receive an email informing them that ChatGPT will be rolled out to the entire agency immediately. The rollout is being managed by Clark Minor, and the email states that the deployment is secure enough that agency staff can even include procurement-sensitive data and "non-sensitive" PII into the chats, although sensitive PII, classified informatio and other confidential information should not be shared. named: - Clark Minor source: https://www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all-employees-to-start-using-chatgpt/ agency: - HHS - FDA - CDC - CMS - NIH id: xdd9Tn8a - date: 2025-09-19 type: interagency event: >- A GSA-created "ICE surge team" that was formed to rapidly lease office space for ICE to operate in various cities is reportedly struggling due to the effects of DOGE cuts – despite overwhelming work, the team is only half the size it should be due to DOGE staffing cuts and is often forced to rent back space at elevated rates from landlords who were harmed by DOGE's lease-cancellation efforts. source: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/g-s1-89492/ice-immigration-raids-gsa-office-space agency: - ICE - GSA id: 23sbV0zs - date: 2025-09-20 type: interagency event: >- The Trump administration revamps the "Gold Card Visa" site that was originally launched in June. The visa now will cost $1 million and be an expedited EB-1 or EB-2 visa; the original proposal has been rebranded as the platinum card, which will be "coming soon." The legality of this program still remains wildly unclear and demand is inflated because sign-up is through a public web form. This website is the first public work of recently-formed National Design Studio, although the previous version of the site was built by DOGE too. source: >- https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/09/20/want-to-be-american-for-1-million-the-trump-gold-card-visa-will-now-allow-entry/ agency: - Commerce - USCIS - NDS id: 7SZG8tnN - date: 2025-09-25 type: oversight event: >- The ranking Democratic member of the Senate Comittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs releases a report "Unchecked and Unaccountable" detailing DOGE security transgressions at several agencies, including poor security for the NUMIDENT data at SSA and activities within GSA and OPM source: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOGE_REPORT_FINAL_7.pdf agency: - DOGE - SSA - GSA - OPM id: 2rpHhJfr - date: 2025-09-30 type: legal event: >- Several nonprofit organizations led by the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit against the DOGE-led project to add Social Security data and expand the usage of the SAVE database for invalidating voter registrations. The suit alleges that this process violated the Privacy Act but also is an unconstitutional abridgement of state ownership for elections. source: >- https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-administration-sued-over-massive-interagency-database-of-americans-private-information/ agency: - DHS - SSA - DOJ id: 7Ii00IDh - date: 2025-10-03 type: disruption event: >- In a memo released by OMB detailing operations during the government shutdown, OMB reveals that there are 45 people in the DOGE office who will continue to work during the shutdown because it is not funded through a normal appropriations process. source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-03/white-house-keeps-45-doge-employees-working-despite-shutdown agency: - OMB - DOGE id: 5tlqfTKY - date: 2025-10-06 type: onboard event: >- The Trump Administration names Frank Bisignano, the current administrator of SSA, as the Chief Executive Officer of the IRS, a position which does not actually exist. Technically, Scott Bessent will remain the seventh acting commissioner to run the IRS this year, but this new role seems to be a way to give Frank Bisignano direct authority over decision-making at the agency while also preserving some amount of deniability and allowing the Trump admininistration to once again sidestep the Senate confirmation process. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/06/irs-ceo-social-security/ named: - Frank Bisignano agency: - IRS - SSA id: 1QSJQoMg - date: 2025-10-10 type: interagency event: >- Working with the White House and HHS, the National Design Studio launches the [TrumpRX](https://trumprx.gov/) to promote a forthcoming initiative from the White House to cap certain drug prices for private payers. This is the fourth website to bear the National Design Studio credit, and like the others it is a single-page site with a signup form. source: https://gizmodo.com/trumprx-is-a-narcissistic-ai-generated-nightmare-2000671309 agency: - EOP - NDS - HHS - CMS id: bUMgXlWc - date: 2025-10-17 type: official event: >- The Trump Administration announces plans for a digital version of the existing federal voter registration form that would be created by the National Design Studio and would run voter identity and citizenship checks against SAVE and other DHS systems before allowing voters to register. States of course have their own voter registration processes but have accepted the paper federal registration form as well. Notes from the call with National Association of State Election Directors reported that election officials from both parties expressed concern about this plan not complying with state laws. They also reported “the developers do not seem to want to spend the time to understand election official concerns.” agency: - NDS - DHS source: >- https://www.votebeat.org/2025/10/27/trump-administration-proposes-online-federal-voter-registration-form/ id: 10S4QNjp - date: 2025-10-23 type: official event: >- Seeking to further bolster support for its proposed new voter registration tool that would be integrated with DHS databases, the Election Assistance Commission hosts a call with the National Association of Secretaries of State. Akash Bobba speaks on the call as a developer and reports it will be created by the National Design Studio and integrate with the revamped SAVE database from DHS. When asked for details about data retention and security, Bobba could only state that "clear data retention policies" would be provided to states in advance. named: - Akash Bobba agency: - NDS - DHS source: >- https://www.votebeat.org/2025/10/27/trump-administration-proposes-online-federal-voter-registration-form/ id: 9BB7xvsy - date: 2025-10-29 type: interagency event: >- The National Design Studio launches a new website safedc.gov with a single page of content and links to hiring portals to various DHS agencies for people interested in working for the administration's DC Task Force. agency: - NDS - DHS - CPB - ICE source: - >- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trump-expands-dc-crime-task-force-hiring-push-nationwide-law-enforcement - https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/18/america-first-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia-interview/ id: 2ACcMrux - date: 2025-11-21 type: legal event: >- Ruling in _State of Rhode Island v. Trump_, Judge Ryan Jackson grants an order for summary judgment finding that EO 14238 is illegal and that the Trump Administration is not allowed to shutter the small agencies – the IMLS, MBDA, FMCS and USICH – targeted in the executive order. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.100.0_1.pdf agency: - IMLS - MBDA - FMCS - USICH id: 7mMlUjDV - date: 2025-11-23 type: report event: >- Reuters reports that DOGE has been disbanded, based on a comment made by Scott Kupor that the effort has become more decentralized and that many of its functions have now been taken over by regular agency staff. While this might be true for OPM, it's unclear how many DOGE staff are still working across the government. source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/ agency: - OPM - DOGE id: 1NvxRIJE - date: 2025-11-25 type: interagency event: >- CMS publishes a notice in the Federal Register that it intends to share information on suspected undocumented immigrants with ICE, using Medicaid data that has been sourced to the agency from states. Multiple states have sued CMS over a previous order mandating these data-sharing arrangements, precisely because they were concerned about how the data might be used. source: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-20911.pdf agency: - CMS - HHS - ICE id: 195m4rUb - date: 2025-11-25 type: interagency event: >- The Department of Energy launches a new "Genesis Mission" to heavily use AI tools for scientific research. The website for this endeavor is created by the National Design Studio and features the classic hallmarks of their work: bold fonts on a black background with animations all on a single page with no navigation and an email signup form. According to Edward Coristine's twitter account, this page took 3 weeks to make. named: - Edward Coristine linked: - Joe Gebbia source: - https://xcancel.com/jgebbia/status/1993365889543025047 - https://xcancel.com/as400495/status/1993358005132279867 agency: - Energy - NDS id: 1Mr81QJd - date: 2025-12-04 type: official event: >- The State Department posts photos showing that Donald Trump's name has now been put on the US Institute of Peace facade, with the post acclaiming him as "the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history." agency: - State - USIP source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-us-institute-peace-renamed-musk-dismantled-rcna247367 id: 3Amq3rc3 - date: 2025-12-10 type: official event: >- Trump officially launches the [trumpcard.gov](https://trumpcard.gov/) website, which has been modified to now accept more formal online applications and a $15,000 processing fee. This change was presumably made by the National Design Studio, who did the last revamp of the site originally developed by DOGE. agency: - NDS - USCIS - Commerce source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-card-website-live-us-visa-22edbd7e65d188bbf6c8ec1d5f78d11a id: 1tzZGLGv - date: 2025-12-15 type: official event: >- The National Design Studio and OPM launch techforce.gov, a new site recruiting technical staff for a 2-year term to work on technical projects within agencies, a model that sounds similar to 18F and USDS, which were respectively completely destroyed and hollowed out by DOGE. The site features the typical design of NDS websites – a single page of large bold fonts on a black background with accordion elements to expand information. agency: - NDS - OPM source: - https://techforce.gov/ id: 7KoBqGAR - date: 2025-12-17 type: interagency event: >- The National Design Studio launches another single-page site [trumpaccounts.gov](https://trumpaccounts.gov) in cooperation with the US Treasury. This is to promote a program of special investment accounts that was passed by Congress but presented as if it's a result of Trump's personal largesse. It conveys a softer tone than many other of their sites, but still sticks to the same convention of a single page of text, with a FAQ presented as expandable accordions and a form to sign up for a mailing list. source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bessent-unveils-trump-accounts-website-to-encourage-children-to-save/ agency: - NDS - Treasury id: 2cIWXRSG - date: 2026-01-09 type: official event: >- The National Design Studio launches [realfood.gov](https://realfood.gov/) with HHS. Evoking more of a nostalgic and warm tone rather than the technocratic darkness of some prior sites, it is still a one-page site with large bold text, expandable accordions but now also with some scrolling animation. source: - >- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mattlira_americas-new-dietary-guidelines-activity-7415096828599427072-5F23/ agency: - NDS - HHS id: 62MRW4tP - date: 2026-01-14 type: disruption event: >- All employees that were laid off from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as part of the massive HHS reduction in force have reportedly received notices that their RIF notices are revoked and remain employed. The RIF is being contested in court, but it's unclear what led to this specific reversal. agency: - CDC - HHS source: >- https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-staffing/hhs-reinstates-hundreds-cdc-workers-fired-doge id: 5mueAsNb - date: 2026-01-30 type: report event: >- Speaking at the ACT-IAC Summit, Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia touted the work of the National Design Studio and reported that OMB is working closely with NDS to "coalesce" the administration's website design, comparing it to how certain hotel brands will all look and smell the same. He reports there are internal sandboxes running for new designs and a redesigned site for CIO.gov will soon illustrate the new look. The NDS is also reportedly leaning heavily into using AI for its work. In addition, 35,000 people have applied to the administration's Tech Force initiative and they are reviewing 6,000 applicants. source: https://fedscoop.com/federal-website-national-design-studio-greg-barbaccia/ named: - Greg Barbaccia - Joe Gebbia agency: - OMB - NDS id: 45sTJzC9 - date: 2026-02-05 type: official event: >- The [Trump RX](https://trumprx.gov/) site formally relaunches with a lookup option to find savings codes for various prescriptions. Like many other National Design Studio sites, it features a mix of Apple Store-style titles and text styling alongside gilt images of an American map and an eagle and bombastic language extolling Trump himself. In a first for NDS sites, it also features a site search to look up specific medications, each of which has their own page URL. agency: - HHS - CMS - NDS source: - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/health/trumprx-online-drugstore-prices.html id: 6g1wCTi4 - date: 2026-02-05 type: legal event: >- A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and senior State Department officials must sit for depositions about their roles in dismantling USAID. The judge cited the lack of documentation and no cooperation from other State Department staff as the reason there was "no alternative" to ordering the depositions. source: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/state-department-elon-musk-doge named: - Elon Musk agency: - USAID - DOGE - State id: 5Iofd56K - date: 2026-02-06 type: disruption event: >- After pausing its actions because of a major winter storm, FEMA plans to resume an ongoing staffing reduction for Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery (CORE) employees, who typically work in term-limited roles. Much like the Trump administration's mass firing of probationary employees last year, this reduction is targeting an entire class of federal employees for termination regardless of how good they are at their job. Up to half of FEMA's workforce are CORE employees, and it's unclear if these reductions are being driven by FEMA or DHS leadership. source: >- https://apnews.com/article/fema-staff-cuts-kristi-noem-winter-storm-fern-1b3a4ea77c6f299abda3f5046a6b24e5 agency: - DHS - FEMA id: p8VCedvM - date: 2026-02-10 type: report event: >- The news site Nextgov reports that the National Design Studio's new site [realfood.gov](https://realfood.gov) is directing users directly to Elon Musk's Grok AI product. After being contacted by reporters for comment, the link is instead labeled as "Ask AI" but stll points to the Grok site. source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/02/trumps-nutrition-website-directs-users-elon-musks-grok/411323/ agency: - NDS - HHS id: 3QNUrdzX - date: 2026-02-11 type: official event: >- The CIO Council launches a new version of its website [cio.gov](http://cio.gov) which has been redesigned by the National Design Studio. This site also includes a new [design system](https://cio.gov/system/tokens), which outlines a new style for websites but it lacks instructions, standardized CSS tags or web components found in other design systems like the [US Web Design System](https://designsystem.digital.gov/) and it has poor scores for accessibility. Nevertheless, with this launch, the National Design Studio has rebuilt a site with dozens of pages and has also implemented a site search for the first time. source: https://www.cio.gov/ agency: - OMB - NDS id: 5JL0fhUF - date: 2026-02-13 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-03657 event: >- Ruling in _American Council of Learned Societies/Authors Guild v. NEH_, Judge Colleen McMahon rejects an argument by the government that a spreadsheet listing all of the DOGE staff and their positions and detailing arrangement must remain sealed for their personal safety. She orders them and a series of text messages made by DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox must be entered into the record by February 17th. linked: - Justin Fox - Nate Cavanaugh source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.120.0.pdf agency: - GSA - NEH id: GmVCDwHI - date: 2026-02-19 type: onboard event: >- Federal CIO Chief Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Acting Director for the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) at GSA, replacing Thomas Shedd in the role. Shedd has seemingly been demoted to a new role of Senior Advisor for Fraud Prevention. Greg Barbaccia is still serving in the role of CIO for USAID as well. source: https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/federal-cio-tapped-dual-hatted-role-gsa/411543/ named: - Greg Barbaccia - Thomas Shedd agency: - GSA - OMB id: 6cEqEKE2