# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/interagency-events-file.json --- - date: 2025-01-20 type: official event: >- In Executive Order 14170, Trump declares a government-wide hiring freeze. He also orders 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/ project: personnel notable: true agency: - DOGE - OMB - OPM id: cSecvrNE - date: 2025-01-(21)~ type: interagency event: >- Future DOGE employee Justin Fox is contacted by Anthony Armstrong and is recruited to work there by him and other DOGE employees who communicate with him over Signal. source: https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-1.pdf agency: - GSA - DOGE fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration named: - Justin Fox interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Ethan Shaotran - Josh Gruenbaum - Nate Cavanaugh - Justin Aimonetti OPM: - Anthony Armstrong id: 5H9gLzZK - 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 project: spending 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. notable: true project: spending 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. project: - dei - personnel 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: 2025-01-24 type: disruption event: >- Treasury Chief of Staff Dan Katz sends an email stating that DOGE staff need to be given immediate access to pause USAID payments issued from Treasury. notable: true project: spending source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-musk-usaid.html agency: - Treasury - USAID id: 9iHcDkyg - date: 2025-01-30 type: interagency event: >- After Tom Krause requested it from Treasury staff, Marko Elez emailed an unencrypted spreadsheet containing information about 350 payments made by USAID to two unnamed staffers at GSA. Marko violated bureau policy by not obtaining approval before sending this and the file contained some sensitive PII about payment recipients. The GSA staffers are not identified, but Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Jeremy Lewin had all been detailed to USAID from GSA at the time the email was sent and could still have been using their GSA email addresses. project: - spending - elimination named: - Tom Krause - Marko Elez linked: - Jeremy Lewin - Edward Coristine - Luke Farritor source: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108131/index.html agency: - GSA - USAID - Treasury id: 2I6tANXc - 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. project: personnel 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: 2025-02-01 type: interagency event: >- Ethan Shaotran at GSA hosts Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy from Education in a Saturday co-working session. It's unclear if they are there to work together or they are simply interested in using DOGE's space in the GSA to work. interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Ethan Shaotran Education: - Brooks Morgan - Conor Fennessy named: - Brooks Morgan - Conor Fennessy - Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: - GSA - Education id: 4N50QXtI - date: 2025-02-02 type: interagency event: >- Aram Moghaddassi, Marko Elez and Riley Sennott arrive at GSA to work with unspecified GSA staff on a Sunday. They are signed in by Thomas Shedd and Luke Farritor. Riley Sennott is still not an official employee of GSA at the time of the meeting. named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Marko Elez - Riley Sennott - Thomas Shedd - Luke Farritor interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Luke Farritor - Thomas Shedd DOL: - Aram Moghaddassi Treasury: - Marko Elez source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: - GSA - DOL - Treasury id: 2yU1WsDF - 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. project: personnel agency: - SBA - USDA source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ id: 1Pg4mnKv - date: 2025-02-06 type: interagency event: >- A large contingent of DOGE staff from multiple agencies meet at GSA HQ. It is unclear if they are representing their specific agencies or if this is a DOGE all-hands gathering. It is also unclear how many DOGE staffers in GSA are in attendance. interagency_doge_reps: DOL: - Aram Moghaddassi OPM: - Brian Bjelde - Tarak Makecha DOI: - Katrine Trampe Commerce: - Michael Grimes Treasury: - Tom Krause NASA: - Scott Coulter HUD: - Michael Mirski - Scott Langmack USDA: - Michael Cole DOGE: - Emily Bryant GSA: - Stephen Ehikian named: - Aram Moghaddassi - Emily Bryant - Brian Bjelde - Tarak Makecha - Katrine Trampe - Michael Grimes - Tom Krause - Riley Sennott - Scott Coulter - Jim Hickey - Michael Mirski - Emily Bryant - Scott Langmack - Michael Cole - Stephen Ehikian source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28032460-gsa-visitor-logs agency: - DOL - OPM - DOI - Commerce - Treasury - NASA - HUD - USDA - DOGE - GSA id: 6eAmtXRs - 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. project: fraud notable: true 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.” He also inquires about dismantling the USIP completely. When told it was independent and funded by Congress, he replied, "we'll see what we can do." notable: true project: - spending - elimination named: - Russell Vought source: https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb agency: - OMB - State - USAID - USIP id: 5x6u5tTI - 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. project: personnel 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/ project: elimination agency: - IAF - USADF - USIP id: KMD5RgCU - date: 2025-02-19 type: interagency event: >- A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act. project: deregulation agency: - EOP - DOT - DOI interagency_doge_reps: DOI: - Katrine Trampe - Tyler Hassen DOT: - Daniel Abrahamson source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u id: 3Lorb8hL - 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 notable: true project: - elimination - personnel - spending agency: - IAF - GSA - DOGE interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Nate Cavanaugh - Ethan Shaotran DOGE: - Jacob Altik case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 id: CuJmM2lv - date: 2025-02-21 type: interagency event: >- Several DOGE staff at HHS and DOI are involved in a large meeting related to a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS. Among other systems, this office maintains the Unaccompanied Children Portal, which was of interest to DOGE's immigration focus. notable: true named: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe - Rachel Riley interagency_doge_reps: DOI: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe HHS: - Rachel Riley source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u project: immigration agency: - HHS - DOI id: 4duo4Ba7 - date: 2025-02-22 type: interagency event: >- The Acting Director of ICE, Caleb Vitello, sends an email to a collection of DOGE staff at the IRS and Treasury requesting that the IRS should provide personal information on approximately 700,000 individuals, including their addresses, phone numbers, employers and addresses and SSN or TIN. The message is addressed to Tom Krause at Treasury and Gavin Kliger at IRS, but it also is cc'ed to Aram Moghaddassi at the Department of Labor and Luke Farritor at HHS (it's unclear if they are representing those agencies or just using those emails but are representing DOGE) named: - Tom Krause - Gavin Kliger - Luke Farritor - Aram Moghaddassi notable: true interagency_doge_reps: Treasury: - Tom Krause IRS: - Gavin Kliger DOL: - Aram Moghaddassi HHS: - Luke Farritor agency: - IRS - Treasury - DOL - HHS project: immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.48.3.pdf id: cY1Z76G2 - 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/ project: personnel agency: - OPM - GSA id: 5zOTAHYX - date: 2025-02-26 type: disruption notable: true event: >- The IAF President Sara Aviel learns in the morning that the Senior Procurement Executive at the Treasury had been ordered by DOGE to unilaterally cancel all contracts by the end of business on the following day. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.5_1.pdf project: - spending - elimination case_no: 1:25-cv-00778 agency: - IAF - Treasury id: 5ATjrwp0 - date: 2025-02-27 type: interagency event: >- DOGE staffers at the Department of the Interior meet with Nicole Hollander from GSA about leases to be cancelled. interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Nicole Hollander DOI: - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe named: - Nicole Hollander - Tyler Hassen - Katrine Trampe agency: - GSA - DOI source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u project: spending id: 69tLUX4t - date: 2025-02-27 type: interagency event: >- DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems. fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin? interagency_doge_reps: DOI: - Katrine Trampe - Tyler Hassen OPM: - Greg Hogan - Riccardo Biasini agency: - OPM - DOI source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u project: spending id: 7Nmk2w0G - 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." project: immigration notable: true 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-(03)~ type: interagency event: >- DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI's data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses. interagency_doge_reps: DOI: - Katrine Trampe - Tyler Hassen OPM: - Greg Hogan - Riccardo Biasini GSA: - Derek Geissler agency: - OPM - GSA - DOI source: https://app.box.com/s/qssl82lj3j5iv1smqh1fgsk770xdfw5u project: - spending - modernization id: ipGicBPJ - 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. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.1.2_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 project: elimination 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. notable: true project: elimination 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. notable: true project: - dei - spending 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. project: - spending - dei 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 project: impunity 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. project: spending 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. notable: true source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations project: immigration agency: - IRS - ICE id: CTZmHEIp - date: 2025-03-25 type: interagency interagency_doge_reps: GSA: - Stephen Ehikian USIP: - Nate Cavanaugh case_no: 1:25-cv-00804 event: >- Nate Cavanaugh contacts the administrator of the GSA to propose transferring the USIP building to them, arguing that USIP won't need a building because the statute doesn't mandate it should have one or the staffing to fill it. notable: true project: elimination source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.15.3.pdf agency: - USIP - GSA id: mrPV8r2V - 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 project: personnel 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." notable: true interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Katie Miller SSA: - Leland Dudek project: fraud 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 to the contrary, the layoffs do include many scientists notable: true source: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57485/hhs-fda-layoffs-doge-cdc-nih/ project: personnel 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 into the DOGE team's cybersecurity lapses and not move forward on any reporting of the suspicious activity at the agency. 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 - 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_. notable: true 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. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00677 project: immigration 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). notable: true source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/ project: immigration 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. project: deregulation 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: 2025-04-09 type: onboard event: >- Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan are part of a cohort of 9 staffers detailed from the Department of Education to the Treasury, under the aegis of supporting federal student aid functions at Treasury. project: - immigration - fraud named: - Adam Ramada - Brooks Morgan source: >- https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1203/363201/20250613155147555_24A1203_State%20Plaintiffs%20Opp%20to%20Stay-pdfa.pdf agency: - Treasury - Education id: 4omQIu7k - 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. project: - elimination - personnel 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/ project: 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. notable: true project: spending 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. notable: true named: - Leland Dudek project: immigration source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/ agency: - SSA - DHS id: 1edZQ68L - date: 2025-04-16 type: interagency event: >- Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million "Gold Card" visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured. notable: true project: modernization source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/gold-card-visa-trump-musk.html named: - Marko Elez - Edward Coristine - Joe Gebbia agency: - DOGE - DHS - USCIS id: FMk4mRYA - 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. project: personnel 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. notable: true source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ project: - spending - dei 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. project: deregulation 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. project: - dei - spending 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/ project: - dei - spending 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. notable: true source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/17/grant-termination-details-doge/ project: - dei - spending 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 project: elimination 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. project: spending 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. project: elimination 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. notable: true 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. notable: true project: immigration 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. project: immigration 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. notable: true 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 project: immigration 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 project: personnel 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. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-social-security.html project: - immigration - fraud 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. notable: true source: https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22 project: - immigration agency: - CMS - HHS - DHS id: 2qesnQ5E - date: 2025-06-13 type: website event: >- DOGE staffers working with the Department of Commerce launch an informational site for the new proposed "[Trump Card](https://trumpcard.gov/)" gold visa, which would let people skip the lines for immigration visas by paying $5 million in fees. It is a single-page site with bold text and an email sign-up form for people who might be interested. project: - modernization agency: - DOGE - Commerce - State source: https://trumpcard.gov/ id: 2WWfn1WX - 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. project: spending 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: 2025-06-24 type: interagency event: >- The acting counsel of the IRS, Andrew deMello, sends an email to DHS staff declining their request for data sharing. He cites that the request made from DHS lacked information mandated by the Memorandum of Understandng (MOU) between the two agencies, including why the disclosure is needed for a criminal case and the identities of ICE officers making the requests along with a sworn attestation that the info will only be used for judicial proceedings and not enforcement. DOGE staffers Anthony Armstrong and Jon Koval are included in this communication. notable: true named: - Anthony Armstrong - Jon Koval project: immigration source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.51.1_1.pdf interagency_doge_reps: DOGE: - Anthony Armstrong DHS: - Jon Koval agency: - IRS - DOGE - DHS - ICE id: 5FRg2XYO - 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. project: elimination 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: >- 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. notable: true source: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations project: immigration 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 project: elimination 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. notable: true project: spending 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. project: - fraud - immigration 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: 2025-06-27 type: interagency event: >- Following up on the MOU between ICE and IRS that allowed for limited data sharing of current address information for use in criminal cases, the Acting Director of ICE sends a request for data on approximately 1.28 million individuals. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.66.1.pdf project: immigration agency: - ICE - IRS id: jVMhFSWC - 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. project: deregulation 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. notable: true project: deregulation 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_. project: personnel 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). notable: true project: spending 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). notable: true source: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7 project: immigration 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 notable: true project: - spending - elimination 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. project: deregulation 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: 2025-08-07 type: interagency event: >- Following an internal validation process, the IRS sends information on 47,289 (3.7%) individuals included in the original request of 1.28 million records made by ICE. After rejecting 2.6% of the original records as insufficient under the terms of the data-sharing agreement, IRS processes attempted to match the rest of the records to individuals through either their Taxpayer Identification Number (usually the same as their Social Security Number) or their address. Out of the matches found by the IRS, 42,695 records (90.3%) were retrieved with TIN matching. Regardless of which method was used, matching was only allowed if ICE provided a last-known address for the individual. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.66.1.pdf notable: true project: immigration agency: - IRS - ICE id: 3dkIQZ73 - 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 project: - immigration - fraud - personnel 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 project: - modernization - deregulation 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: 2025-09-02 type: disruption event: >- A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration determined that only 43 out of 7,315 probationary employees fired at the IRS had any documented performance issues. The termination letters to staff were provided by OPM with no changes allowed. Agency staff balked at language in the letter that falsely declared "performance reasons and current mission needs" were the reason for terminations, and the head of IRS's Human Capital was placed on administrative leave for her refusal to sign the letter. notable: true source: >- https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/watchdog-report-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-irs-employees-fired-by-doge-for-performance-had-no-documented-issues/ project: personnel agency: - IRS - OPM id: SiujR5w7 - 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. notable: true source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html project: spending 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. project: modernization 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 project: - immigration - personnel agency: - ICE - GSA id: 23sbV0zs - date: 2025-09-20 type: website 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. notable: true project: modernization 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/ - https://trumpcard.gov/ 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 project: - fraud - impunity 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/ project: immigration 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. notable: true 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: website 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 expandable accordion elements of text and an email signup form. notable: true project: modernization source: - https://gizmodo.com/trumprx-is-a-narcissistic-ai-generated-nightmare-2000671309 - https://trumprx.gov/ 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. The system would run voter identity and citizenship checks against SAVE and other DHS systems before allowing voters to register. 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.” notable: true project: immigration 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. project: immigration 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: 2025-10-24 type: official event: >- The Trump Administration registers the domain [techforce.gov](https://techforce.gov/) and later launches a password-protected site with branding for the National Design Studio on it. source: https://fedscoop.com/white-house-registers-techforce-gov-domain/ project: modernization agency: - NDS - OPM id: 24JIYBtH - date: 2025-10-29 type: website event: >- The National Design Studio launches a new website [safedc.gov](https://safedc.gov/) for the admnistration's new DC task force. It features a single page of large bold text on a black background with a large (possibly AI-generated) picture of Trump on patrol with agents, links to job listings on USA Jobs and an email sign-up form. Weirdly, the NDS header also includes a clock. notable: true project: modernization 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/ - https://safedc.gov/ 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. notable: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.100.0_1.pdf project: elimination agency: - IMLS - MBDA - FMCS - USICH id: 7mMlUjDV - date: 2025-11-21 type: legal event: >- Judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly grants a summary judgment in _Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS_ giving the plaintiffs temporary relief in their lawsuit to stop the IRS from sharing data in bulk with ICE. The judge expressed concerns that that IRS had acted arbitrarily and carelessly in drafting a policy to allow ICE to pull address data on flimsy justifications. project: immigration case_no: 1:25-cv-00457 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.74.0_1.pdf agency: - ICE - IRS id: zhwmdne3 - 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. notable: true 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. notable: true source: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-20911.pdf project: immigration agency: - CMS - HHS - ICE id: 195m4rUb - date: 2025-11-25 type: website 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. notable: true project: - modernization named: - Edward Coristine linked: - Joe Gebbia source: - https://xcancel.com/jgebbia/status/1993365889543025047 - https://xcancel.com/as400495/status/1993358005132279867 - https://genesis.energy.gov/ 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." notable: true project: elimination 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: website 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. More importantly, it now has a more detailed signup form that promises payment processing of the $15,000 processing fee as well. With this change, NDS has added a second page. notable: true project: modernization agency: - NDS - USCIS - Commerce source: - https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-card-website-live-us-visa-22edbd7e65d188bbf6c8ec1d5f78d11a - https://trumpcard.gov/ id: 1tzZGLGv - date: 2025-12-15 type: website 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. It also features AI images of a figure with a computer monitor head. notable: true project: modernization agency: - NDS - OPM source: - https://techforce.gov/ id: 7KoBqGAR - date: 2025-12-17 type: website 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. notable: true project: modernization source: - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bessent-unveils-trump-accounts-website-to-encourage-children-to-save/ - https://trumpaccounts.gov/ agency: - NDS - Treasury id: 2cIWXRSG - date: 2026-01-09 type: official event: >- A memo from the Secretary of the Department of Energy orders the rollback of rules for nuclear safety that had been in place since the 1950s. The rule that required radiation leaks to be "as low as reasonably achievable" was seen as too costly for nuclear power startups and a blocker to the administration's goal of getting 3 new advanced reactors started by July 4, 2026. project: deregulation agency: - NRC - Energy source: - >- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/01/15/doe-eliminates-eisenhower-era-radiation-standard-to-boost-nuclear-projects-00729519 - https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought id: 1tOyDtk0 - date: 2026-01-09 type: website 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. notable: true project: modernization source: - >- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mattlira_americas-new-dietary-guidelines-activity-7415096828599427072-5F23/ - https://realfood.gov/ 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. project: personnel agency: - CDC - HHS source: >- https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-staffing/hhs-reinstates-hundreds-cdc-workers-fired-doge id: 5mueAsNb - date: 2026-01-23 type: interagency event: >- The IRS reports that it has discovered a severe error in the validation code for its data-sharing of taxpayer information with ICE. The system is only supposed to share information if it matches a valid prior address provided for the individual provided by ICE. Instead, the system was just checking if the fields for address and zip code were just not blank, and in some cases ICE was requesting info with addresses that were random information or the locations of jails and detention centers. After reviewing the requests, IRS engineers confirm this affected approximately 5% of the 47,289 records shared with the IRS to ICE. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.66.1.pdf project: immigration agency: - ICE - IRS id: 6em8TQ3i - date: 2026-01-26 type: legal event: >- The judge in _Center for Taxpayer Right v. IRS_ allows for a stay in the preliminary injunction against the IRS. Under the terms of this stay, the IRS must notify all parties within 3 days of it it plans to create a new API for retrieving taxpayer info and to notify the court formally if it receives any other requests from DHS. It also allows for either party to drop the stay. source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.74.0_1.pdf case_no: 1:25-cv-00457 agency: - ICE - DHS - IRS id: 2QXqea44 - 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/ project: - modernization named: - Greg Barbaccia - Joe Gebbia agency: - OMB - NDS id: 45sTJzC9 - date: 2026-02-05 type: website 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. notable: true project: modernization agency: - HHS - CMS - NDS source: - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/health/trumprx-online-drugstore-prices.html - https://trumprx.gov/ 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 project: - personnel 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/ project: - modernization agency: - NDS - HHS id: 3QNUrdzX - date: 2026-02-11 type: website 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. notable: true source: https://www.cio.gov/ project: modernization 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. notable: true 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 - date: 2026-02-24 type: report event: >- In a tweet on his personal X account, National Design Studio member Tyler Kim confirms that the content on cio.gov was "almost entirely generated by our internal ai agent system [end-to-end]." project: - modernization named: - Tyler Kim source: https://xcancel.com/tylertaewook/status/2026398015167054042 agency: - NDS - OMB id: jQFvQGdW - date: 2026-02-26 type: legal case_no: 1:25-cv-00457 event: >- The judge in _Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS_ responds to a request by the plaintiffs for expedited discovery of more documents. In her ruling, she notes that she is troubled by the fact that the IRS took 3 weeks to inform the court and plaintiffs about the bug that allowed ICE to present fake addresses in its requests but receive records anyway. She declares that the IRS broke the law "approximately 42,695 times," but that the request for expedited discovery is ultimately up to the appeals court hearing the case to decide. notable: true project: immigration source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/ agency: - IRS - ICE id: 6E9zrv7x - date: 2026-03-17 type: disruption event: >- As the Trump administration has struggled to find options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after it started hostilities against Iran, theree are reports that the State Department had eliminated all staff from the Bureau of Energy Resources who would have been able to predict the problems. Key staffers who maintained communications and diplomatic relationships with oil companies in the region were also let go. Furthermore, departments that would have researched and debated the effects of the Iran invasion in the Department of Energy, Treasury and State have been eliminated or were sidelined from the decision to go to war. source: https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-doge-cuts-middle-eastern-oil-gas-crises notable: true project: - personnel - elimination agency: - State - Treasury - Energy id: 6QypxpY2 - date: 2026-03-17 type: official event: >- Continuing on a Trump Administration plan to consolidate and centralize HR for all federal agencies within OPM, Scott Kupor announces a new "Federal HR 2.0" pilot program with several agencies. Under the new shared services model, OPM will take over roles like performance management, onboarding, payroll, workforce planning, recruitment and hiring from agency staff. This is presented as a move for greater efficiency, but it would also give OPM the centralized power to fire staff and eliminate departments that DOGE wanted. The pilot for this new program will start in Fiscal Year 2027 (October). source: >- https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest-memos/modernizing-hr-services-by-establishing-the-opm-hr-shared-service-center.pdf named: - Scott Kupor project: - personnel - elimination agency: - OPM - CFPB - HUD - VA - FHFA id: 762i3tC4 - date: 2026-03-20 type: official event: >- The State Department announces the creation of a new Bureau of Disaster and ​Humanitarian Response that would absorb some of the functions of USAID for disaster response but avoid social programs or addressing climate change. It will be 200 people and receive roughly $5.4 billion a year in funding, much smaller than USAID's former budget of $40 billion. It will be part of the foreign assistance division of the State Department currently led by Jeremy Lewin. source: >- https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-state-dept-forms-new-humanitarian-bureau-after-foreign-aid-overhaul-2026-03-20/ project: spending named: - Jeremy Lewin agency: - State - USAID id: ZRkwFe1i - date: 2026-03-31 type: official event: >- HHS announces a reorganization of its technology organization to revert a change made in 2024 and put the HHS CIO formally in charge of more departments. This role is currently held by Clark Minor, who has been in the position since last May. HHS IT operations are reported to be fairly unstable, with most agencies being run by Acting CIOs who have not been permanently appointed to the role. named: - Clark Minor project: modernization linked: - Zach Terrell source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cio-news/2026/03/hhs-cio-regains-authority-in-latest-reorganization/ agency: - HHS - CMS - FDA - NIH id: 27WmqByx - date: 2026-04-03 type: report event: >- Edward Coristine appeared on the podcast of conservative influencer Nick Shirley to discuss efforts from DOGE to search for fraud. During the podcast, they discussed the new Medicaid dataset released by DOGE. On the podcast, Coristine alleges that a lot of federal money is being stolen and siphoned out of the country by immigrants as well as disproven theories that a lot of dead people are receiving social security benefits and are registered to vote. Coristine also discussed the NDS, and revealed that the chief creative office is Nate Brown. named: - Edward Coristine - Nate Brown source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-nick-shirley-fraud-videos/ agency: - OPM - HHS - CMS id: 7MLFlZWE - date: 2026-04-14 type: official event: >- Speaking at a conference about AI, Chase Ausley, a USDS director stationed who is serving as a senior advisor to CMS reports that USDS is currently 90 people with the goal of being 100 staffers soon. This is a dramatic improvement over the approximately 70 staffers listed in January, but still far below the 230 employees working for USDS in late 2024. source: https://fedscoop.com/us-doge-service-alive-growing-organization-official-says/ project: modernization agency: - DOGE - CMS id: 4ltOeNew - date: 2026-04-20 type: disruption event: >- GSA announced plans to sell the headquarters of OPM and immediate plans where GSA will temporarily relocate into OPM's building while renovations at GSA HQ proceed and then OPM will be permanently relocated to the GSA building. The consolidation is approved by both the GSA administrator and OPM head Scott Kupor. Both agencies have increasing control over hiring and IT operations for the Executive Branch and were both sites of DOGE's away teams of wreckers. The move and sale would happen in December 2028. source: >- https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2026/04/20/gsa-opm-headqaurters-theodore-roosevelt-building.html agency: - GSA - OPM id: 3XMPR59A - date: 2026-04-23 type: official event: >- Testifying at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported that the US had approved only 1 "gold card" visa application so far. He also claimed there were hundreds more applicants in the queue for the program, which requires a $1 million fee and $15,000 in processing fees. source: https://www.notus.org/immigration/trump-administration-gold-card-visa-howard-lutnick-immigration agency: - Commerce - NDS id: G3RzrfPZ