# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/questions-file.json --- - name: Nikhil Rajpal question: What happened to Nikhil Rajpal? Is he still in DOGE? context: >- After some prominent sightings at the CFPB and NOAA in February, Nikhil Rajpal has seemingly dropped of the radar. It's possible that he might be one of DOGE staff embedded in SSA or is working quietly in other agencies. date: 2025-05-15 answer: I confirmed that Nikhil Rajpal was detailed into the SSA, where he has been part of the team there. id: 1irW2fJK - name: Greg Hogan agency_id: OPM question: >- Why do I have a report that Greg Hogan was named the CIO on 2025-01-20, but my documents only date that promotion from mid-February? answer: >- According to his own testimony, he was appointed first as an Acting CIO and then appointed to the position in February. answer_date: 2025-06-06 id: 327xu4va - name: Amanda Scales agency_id: OPM question: When did Amanda Scales stop working at OPM? context: >- In a recent opinion in AFGE v. OPM, Judge Cote states about Amanda Scales. "She no longer occupies that role, and it does not appear that she works at OPM any longer." I know that Scales was demoted in mid-March, was that actually because she was leaving? answer: >- I was able to infer when Amanda Scales left based on both a demotion from her Chief of Staff role and the dates offered on her LinkedIn id: 2Ricpd7F - name: Carl Coe agency_id: EPA question: Where can I find more info on Carl Coe's tenure at the EPA? context: >- The first information about him appears to be his promotion to Chief of Staff on May 2nd, but the press release mentions he was the leader of the DOGE team at the EPA. How long has he been there? Did he get hired there or was he detailed from somewhere? date: 2025-06-07 id: 7X5uSQFe - name: Gavin Kliger agency_id: CFPB question: Why was Gavin Kliger given admin for access control systems at the CFPB? date: 2025-05-15 id: 3UqlJ3YM - name: Alexandra Beynon question: >- Why exactly did Gavin Kliger include Alexandra Beynon on an email chain when he was setting up the April RIF at the CFPB? id: 6iJMmLDD - name: Joe Gebbia question: How is Joe Gebbia assigned to the Gold Card Visa project? Is he detailed from OPM to elsewhere? date: 2025-05-28 id: 6MU8Pbt6 - event_id: FMk4mRYA question: >- How is the staffing structured for this project? Is it housed within a specific agency (probably USCIS)? Are all the named staff detailed there? date: 2025-06-07 id: 3EOfRpAD - name: Adam Ramada agency_id: Education system_id: FMS question: >- Is it true that Adam Ramada accessed only one system at the Department of Education and only for a single day? context: >- In sworn testimony, an employee at the Department of Education affirmed that Adam Ramada was the only person from DOGE with system access, that he was only granted access to the FMS system, and that he only used that access once date: 2025-05-01 id: 7EVIqqGd - position_id: dol-elez name: Marko Elez question: >- Was Marko Elez' appointment extended to be past his NTE date of 2025-06-11 and was his pay of $84,601 annual or just for those 6 months or so? date: 2025-07-16 id: 4GhQ9e0C - position_id: dol-collins name: Miles Collins question: >- Was Miles Collins' appointment extended to be past his NTE date of 2025-06-17 and was his pay of $90,239 annual or just for those 6 months or so? date: 2025-07-16 id: 3fuAMCZ0 - position_id: dol-moghaddassi question: Is this an annual salary or just for the 4 months he was originally expected to be at for DOL? context: >- The SF-50 for Aram states that his term is not-to-exceed mid-June and was for $81000, but he was then detailed to SSA for $71k a quarter, suggesting the amount might be for 4 months and not the whole year? Also, did this get replaced with a new role at DOL or did he just get appointed at SSA? answer: >- Never mind, this text in the MOU says "SSA agrees to transfer funds to DOL, in the form of progress or periodic payments, on at least a quarterly basis, up to the sum of $ 71,000 to support DOL’s activities under this Agreement." so it seems like it's $71,000 total date: 2025-07-16 answer_date: 2025-07-17 id: 4ks17MXG - position_id: dol-moghaddassi name: Aram Moghaddassi question: When did Aram Moghaddassi start at the Department of Labor and what was his salary? context: >- All signs point to Aram Mohgaddassi starting at the DOL by mid-February, but what was the actual start. Also assuming salaried because details from DOL reimbursed answer: >- Thanks to some new document dump, we now know he was hired by DOL on 2/18 and then immediately detailed to the SSA for a reimbursed detail. answer_date: 2025-07-16 date: 2025-05-01 id: RR5Fl8LI - agency_id: DOGE question: >- What does it mean in a recent court case filing that staff were detailed to a specific agency and also to USDS? context: >- In a recent court declaration from the government, there was this type of phrasing: "Luke Farritor is an employee of the General Services Administration (GSA) and has been detailed to HHS... Mr. Farritor is also detailed to USDS from GSA." What does that mean? Were they then detailed out from USDS instead of their home agency? id: 3DO8WQEy - agency_id: SBA question: What has DOGE been doing at the SBA? context: >- DOGE embedded early within the Small Business Administration, sending Donald Park and Edward Coristine there within the first few weeks. Despite that, there has been no reporting on their activities apart from a single tweet. What have they been up to there? id: iUew36HG - agency_id: CPSC question: What DOGE staff were detailed to the agency? id: 6WTCcRTi - agency_id: Commerce question: Who else from DOGE was detailed to the Department of Commerce? context: >- There were reports in early February of DOGE visiting multiple Commerce Department agencies, but Nikhil Rajpal was the only person identified at that time. Who else was involved? date: 2025-07-10 id: 3lXKctFn - agency_id: USDA question: Has DOGE tried to seize control of the National Finance Center operations at the USDA? context: >- In March, there were confirmed reports that a high-level DOGE staffer, Stephanie Holmes, had been granted admin access to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System at DOI, which provides payroll services to multiple agencies. The NFC at USDA is another big system for payroll. Has the DOGE team at USDA tried to gain access? id: 6gEkQoCl - event_id: WQKuTEAj question: >- Has DOGE intercepted any reports of its activities that were sent to CISA in order to undermine investigation? context: >- Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt were reportedly giving access to email and other systems at CISA. Could they have used this access to suppress any reports of DOGE activity elsewhere and possibly to retaliate against the sender? id: 7azdVrI7 - event_id: 1sruV2vD agency_id: SSA name: Marko Elez question: How did DOGE staff from Treasury share their data with the DOGE staff at SSA? context: >- The _NYT_ reports that DOGE staff at Treasury found what it thought were fraudulent payouts from SSA and shared them with DOGE staff at SSA on 2/10. How did they do this? Treasury testified [Marko Elez was the only DOGE person with access and his laptop was secured against data removal](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.27.3_1.pdf). And Elez resigned on 2/7 so he couldn't have taken his laptop over there. So, how did the data get there? id: 793PHbbX - event_id: MXinRonY question: >- Why did Jeremy Lewin send an email with planning information about the CFPB RIF to Alexandra Beynon (at Education) and Zach Terrell (at HHS)? context: >- They have no known link to the CFPB nor have they been linked to past RIFs. Were they included here as representatives of their agencies or just sent that because those were emails they were checking? date: 2025-06-23 id: 3faIdKQU - name: Jennifer Balajadia question: Is Jennifer Balajadia still in DOGE? Is she still at Education? context: >- In the wake of Elon Musk's departure, several high-level DOGE people who came from Musk's circle also resigned. By all accounts, this would make Jennifer Balajadia a likely person to leave. But I have also very little info about her involvement before then. date: 2025-06-23 id: 4hURXTll - name: Emily Bryant question: Is there more info I can dig up on Emily Bryant? She doesn't seem to be any documentation on her. date: 2025-06-23 id: 9yvyVWu0 - name: Bridget Youngs question: >- She was named as showing up at the Peace Corps once. Has she been involved in any other DOGE visits to other independent agencies? date: 2025-06-23 id: xpTRcHXQ - name: Christopher Stanley question: >- Christopher Stanley has reportedly left DOGE in the wake of Musk's departure. Are there more details? date: 2025-07-10 id: 5OGfpDrS - name: Edward Coristine question: >- Now that Edward Coristine has left the GSA, does that mean that all his detailing agreements have ended? How many of them were still open? date: 2025-06-25 id: 2iH7ggP7 - position_id: doge-adam-ramada question: Can we find more details on Adam Ramada's position within DOGE? date: 2025-06-23 id: 4fN12w8Q - position_id: detail-fcc-wick name: Jordan Wick question: Why is Jordan Wick's detail to the FCC so murky and weird? date: 2025-08-28 context: >- According to documents FOIAed from the agency, Jordan Wick is supposed to have been detaled from DOGE to the FCC around March 18th (the agreement is not signed) and he is listed as a volunteer. The detailing agreement mentions that Wick is being detailed from OPM which will bill for his services. Is OPM involved or is this just a bad cut and paste job? Also, at the time of this detail Jordan Wick was an employee of the CFPB, which isn't mentioned at all anywhere. id: 3HV1guvL - name: Bridget Youngs question: >- Did Bridget Youngs start at DOL and get detailed from there? Or did she start at GSA like many others in Nate Cavanaugh's orbit and then get detailed to DOL? date: 2025-10-31 id: 1XBuOiGY - position_id: energy-graber question: >- It had been reported that Ross Graber resigned as CIO from the Department of Energy in March 2025, but his own LinkedIn reports he was there until July. Which is correct? date: 2025-10-31 id: A8TefCuh - name: Katrine Trampe question: Is Katrine Trampe married to Baris Akis? context: >- What looks to be her LinkedIn lists her name as Katrine Trampe Akis? Have they been married? Were they involved while she was in DOGE (and he was too, but he wasn't supposed to be)? date: 2025-10-31 id: 2xg2vE6Z - name: Riccardo Biasini question: >- The appointment for Riccardo Biasini at OPM was not to exceed 2025-07-18. Has he left DOGE or was he given a new position/appointment with a longer NTE date? date: 2025-11-22 id: 1avrCtyQ - name: Sam Beyda question: What has Sam Beyda been doing for most of this year before showing up at HHS/CDC? date: 2025-12-03 id: 6MEaLNZ3 - name: Tarak Makecha agency_id: State date: 2026-01-10 question: Why does a FOIA of start dates and positions list Tarak starting at State in January 2025? id: 7jZR8GBl - name: Noah Peters agency_id: OPM date: 2026-01-10 question: Why isn't Noah Peters listed in a FOIA of job starts at various agencies? id: 4AlHZTj8